Baby Massage
2025-09-15 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-09-22 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-09-29 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-10-06 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-10-13 10:30 - 11:30 UTC | Coalisland Cornmill
Baby Massage provides a wonderful experience for parents to connect and unwind with their babies whilst learning nurturing touch strokes. Baby massage benefits include secure attachment, supporting your baby’s physical and mental development, providing relief from wind and colic, improving circulation and promoting better sleep. Classes are suitable for babies from birth to 1 year old.

Health Visitor Workshop (Understanding your child's behaviour)
2025-09-15 10:30 - 11:30 | Main Office, Dungannon
Health Visitor support and advice provided with a specific topic each month. Topics include Weaning and Toddler diets, Sleep, Toilet training, Positive parenting/Behaviour management, dental health – included in the weaning sessions.

Walk and Talk
2025-09-16 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-09-23 10:30 - 11:30 | Dungannon Park

Baby Sensory
2025-09-17 10:30 - 11:30 | Dungannon
Baby Sensory is a group designed especially for parents and their babies under 18 months old. The sessions will provide quality play opportunities with a wide and imaginative range of sensory and age appropriate activities which support positive attachments and promote shared interactions between parents and their babies.

Breastfeeding Support Group
2025-09-17 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-09-24 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-10-01 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-10-08 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-10-15 10:30 - 12:00 | Dungannon
The Breastfeeding group is a weekly drop-in group. The group is open to all members and non-members of SureStart, who are breastfeeding or expressing. Antenatal mums are always very welcome. At the group you can get a cuppa, chat with other breastfeeding mums and get your baby weighed. You don’t have to have a problem with breastfeeding to come along to this group, but if you do the group is covered by either a Breastfeeding Counsellor/Midwife or Health Visitor who will be available to offer expert help. Toddlers are welcome too.

Story and Rhyme, Coalisland
2025-09-18 10:30 - 11:00 | Coalisland Library
Promoting the use of your local library and a love of books, this session helps parents and children bond and have fun whilst learning new stories and rhymes. It enhances speech and language and social skills in all the children who attend. The physical rhymes and songs enhance physical development and imagination for children 0 – 3 years.

Art Ventures
2025-09-18 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-09-25 10:30 - 11:30 | Main Office, Dungannon
Art Ventures is a group for children 18 months – 3 years and is designed to enhance your child’s creative thought processes. Taking inspiration from the Reggio Emilia inspired approach this group celebrates children’s ideas and how they play. We encourage the children to connect with and respect nature by providing them with an inspiring and vast selection of natural materials. Through the use of real artist’s materials and tools such as clay, paints and inks the children will find and develop their own ways of working.

Parents Forum
2025-09-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Dungannon
The Parents Forum is an opportunity for parents to share what they think about SureStart activities, highlighting what we are doing well and what we can improve on. Crèche is available with this programme.

Hypnobirthing
2025-09-19 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-09-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Main Office, Dungannon
Hypno-birthing is run by our midwife and is a unique method of relaxed natural childbirth education. Enhanced by self-hypnosis and guided imagery techniques that allow women to use their natural abilities to bring about safer, easier and more comfortable birth. These techniques aim to help reduce awareness of fear, anxiety and pain during childbirth.

Incredible Babies
2025-09-22 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-09-29 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-06 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-13 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Main Office, Dungannon
A 9 week programme for parents and babies, creating opportunities for peer support and socialisation. You will gain knowledge on your babies need for secure attachments. It also encourages baby’s physical development and speech and language skills.

Rhyme before Teatime
2025-09-22 15:45 - 16:15 | Dungannon
Rhyme Before Teatime (Suitable from Birth) Promoting a love of books and enhancing imagination through use of puppets, rhymes and songs. These sessions enhance speech and language and social and emotional skills. The session promotes early literacy and focuses on spending quality time with your child, promoting bonding and attachment.

Chatter Matters Speech and Language Clinic
2025-09-25 13:00 - 16:00 | Dungannon
This is a monthly speech, language and communication advice clinic. You can discuss any queries or concerns you might have about your child’s speech and language development with the Speech and Language Therapist who will be able to offer you reassurance, support, advice or signpost you on to a relevant service. This clinic is for children aged 18 months to 3 years and you need to book your appointment in advance.

Parenting Tips
2025-09-26 10:00 - 11:00 | Main Office, Dungannon

Story and Rhyme, Dungannon
2025-09-29 10:30 - 23:00 | Dungannon Library

Papa and Pj's
2025-09-30 18:30 - 19:30 | Dungannon
Papa and PJs is a programme providing the chance for the dads/male carers to get involved in the bedtime routine. It provides a calming and relaxing environment with sensory play activities to help the children settle before bedtime. It offers a wonderful opportunity for dads to spend quality memorable times with their children 0 – 3 years.
