Coffee Morning with Essex Babylab

Essex Babylab invites parents, parents-to-be and babies to a friendly session over coffee where we share research insights and practical tips with them to facilitate positive baby development.

Join Dr Silvia Rigato and guest speaker Jaime Tung for a Babylab Coffee Morning exploring how becoming a parent can bring changes that affect ourselves and our relationships, and how these differ between mothers and fathers.

Dr Rigato will share insights from research showing how early motherhood and fatherhood are influenced by social factors as well as individual brain, hormonal and behavioural changes.

After the short talk, Jaime will introduce the Parent Support Groups PANDAS and the resources available for parents who are struggling. This will be a safe, non-judgemental space to share challenges you might be experiencing as a parent.

Tea, biscuits, and toys provided ☕

Coffee Morning with Essex Babylab

‘Transition to parenting’

📅 Thursday 7th May 2026

⏰ 10:00 – 11:30 AM

📍 At Essex Business School, Room 2.45 (University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ)

Silvia’s bio: Silvia is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex. At the Essex Babylab, her research focuses on the development of cognitive, social and perceptual skills and on those factors that can influence the development of these skills, such as infant temperament, maternal mental health and mother-infant interaction.

Jaime’s bio: Jaime is the founder of PANDAS Wivenhoe, a free perinatal mental health support group that meets fortnightly at St Mary's Church Annexe, offering parents a safe, non-judgmental space to talk through anything they're finding difficult. A parent of three young boys, Jaime trained with the PANDAS Foundation UK as a volunteer following her own experiences with birth trauma and postnatal depression.

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