Celebrating the Babies Bill
The Babies Bill just passed its first reading in the House of Commons. And for the first time in history, the UK Parliament is saying what mothers have always known: the first 1,000 days are everything.
This isn’t a new idea. Attachment researchers have been mapping it for decades. Neuroscientists can show you the brain scans. Infant mental health practitioners see it in every mother-baby pair they hold.
But now, we’re putting it into law.
The bill would enshrine infant mental health support, health visiting, parent-infant relationship services, and perinatal mental health care on a statutory footing. It would require government to assess babies’ needs, commission appropriate support, and report annually to Parliament.
Here’s why it matters — not as policy, but as lived reality:
A baby’s nervous system develops through their mother’s nervous system. This is co-regulation. When a mother is held, her baby is held. When she is regulated, her baby regulates through her. This isn’t metaphor. It’s measurable biology.
And yet, we have been leaving mothers alone in the hardest season of their lives — drowning in information overload, exhausted, unsupported, told to optimize and perform rather than rest and repair.
The Babies Bill says: we see you. We will meet you here. We will build the infrastructure of care around the most critical window in human development.
At my new venture, HERE MAMA, we’ve built an app and community grounded in this truth: Love Creates Love. Through breath, touch, movement, sound, and nature — the five pillars of co-regulation — mothers learn to regulate their own nervous systems so their babies can build secure attachment in the safety of that calm.
For 23 years through Blossom & Berry, I’ve trained over 2,000 teachers in 60+ countries in these practices. I’ve seen what happens when mothers are held rather than instructed. When we remove shame. When we remember that a mother doesn’t need to become anything — she already is love.
The Babies Bill is the beginning of that remembering at a systems level.
Because when we invest in the first 1,000 days, we’re not just supporting babies. We’re building the foundation of a healthier, kinder, more securely attached society.
And that is where everything begins.
