HOW’S your relationship with your baby? How good is your connection with your toddler?

Your baby’s future chance of health, happiness and creativity is largely shaped by his or her experiences in the first three years of life.

THE odds of a toddler maturing into an aggressive adult or violent criminal is determined largely before he or she reaches the age of three, according to experts speaking at the country’s first infant mental health forum.

A GROWING number of babies and toddlers are presenting with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties according to psychologists operating a unique service for infant mental health.

The country’s first mental health service for toddlers may be on its way, but it’s long overdue writes Claire O’Sullivan.