The best evidence there is that we should talk to babies, is that babies LOVE to be talked to. Tell a baby a story with an animated face and voice, and the baby will stare, in rapt attention – for as long as her little brain can handle it. Then she’ll turn her face away …
Written by: Eva Bild A new mother is trying to put a horrible prickly sweater on a baby before taking him outside in the cold weather. The baby is howling and the mother is distressed. I start to explain to the baby about how cold it is outside and how the lovely sweater his grandmother …
The extra drop baby gets when the nurse or the midwife helps Mom to latch the baby on just one more time before she goes home. The extra drop baby gets from the extra five minutes Mom waits before putting baby back in her bassinet at 2am. The extra drop baby gets because a woman …
Let me start with a disclaimer. Not all babies need to have bottles. Babies who are doing well at the breast, and whose mothers are available and happy to provide the breast whenever the baby needs it, these babies do not need bottles. Not all mothers want to or need to spend time away from …
This is a not-to-be missed opportunity to learn from renowned experts Penny Simkin PT and Phyllis Klaus MFT, LMSW, authors of the book When Survivors Give Birth. Join other maternity care, mental health and allied providers to focus on the issues of the least understood of pregnant clients. Advance your understanding of an all too …
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Two people learning to do the same thing with their bodies at the same time. Each has to learn a set of new skills but also has to learn how the other will respond. Stage 1 – Starting Out: When you start out learning ballroom dancing there are tense hands and shoulders, sore feet, twisted …
