Table 1.

Defining the care categories

Category	Definition
0a	Routine care plus parenting support for healthy mother and baby but lacking parenting/ feeding skill or confidence.
0b	Routine care plus parenting support for healthy mother and baby but lacking parenting/ feeding skill or confidence.
1	Additional care for mother and /or baby with some medical, mental health and /or social needs.
2	Additional care with liaison with other services to meet complex health or social needs.
3	Intensive additional care with liaison with other services to address serious, complex health or social needs. Given the very low numbers in this category they were subsumed into a joint category 2&3.