Kate Middletonis learning how babies are interacting with the world around them — and ensuring they have the best start to life possible.
Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales.Phil Noble - WPA Pool/Getty Images
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During the outing at Riversley Park Children’s Centre, Princess Kate sat in a circle of babies on adult’s laps, calming holding the hand of the child seated next to her and stroking the little one’s arm with her thumb.
Kate previously saw the ADBB at workwhen she visited Denmarklast year and came home wanting to explore whether it could be introduced in the U.K. so and her Centre for Early Childhood has been working closely with the Institute of Health Visiting to explore the potential for implementation of it.
As she goes around the country and meets parents like herself, Kate loves to hear more from those who are actually working in the area.
During a visit to Wales in April, the royalgot into a long conversation with a pair of health visitorswho had come out to see her and Prince William. In fact, it was the Prince of Wales, 40, who beckoned his wife over, saying, “Catherine, health visitors." Standing in the rain, Kate passed on some of her own reflections of the challenges facing families and healthcare workers that she has picked up during her ongoing early years campaign.
Kimberly Woodward told PEOPLE that they see Kate as a “driver” of debate about “a lot of issues here in the U.K. like poverty and how people need the service.” Health visitors are often the healthcare workers new mothers see the most in the months after giving birth.
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This yearhas seen important developmentsfor Kate and her early years' work as she launched Shaping Us, which aims to raise awareness of “the critical importance of early childhood and how it shapes the adults we become,” asshe put it in January.
The visit to Nuneaton on Thursday was all part of Kate’s ongoing effort to encourage the best research and practices into helping families, and babies, in their first five years. She and her foundation are working closely with people from across the private, public and voluntary sectors, as they build up a library of knowledge and shared experience in best practices that can help bring new solutions and inspire action for positive change in the early years.
While Princess Kate and Prince William are parents of three —Prince George, 9,Princess Charlotte, 8, andPrince Louis, 5 — Kate has hinted that she is sometimes tempted to have another little one during outings with children. And with her work focused on children, being around babies and toddlers often poses an occupational hazard for Kate!
“I love babies,“Kate saidduring a June 2022 outing where she asked to hold a 4-month-old girl named Norah.
On the first day of hersolo royal tour in Denmarkin February 2022, Princess Kate met with parents and their babies during a visit to the University of Copenhagen.
“It makes me very broody,” the royal shared. “William always worries about me meeting under 1-year-olds. I come home saying, ‘Let’s have another one.’ "
source: people.com
