Sharon's Sweet Baby Dream Blog- Infant Calming
Upcoming Infant Massage 4 class series (parent and baby)
Dates: October 19,21,26,28 or Novmber 9,11,16,18, 2010
Location: LeSoleil Health and Wellness, #15, 9353-50St. Edmonton, Alberta
Time: 10-11 am contact Sharon for more information and to register
Also: Loving Hands for Expectant Parents: 10-12 noon Sat.Nov 13, 2010
Hi everyone,welcome to my SWEET BABY DREAM BLOG and a special hello to any new parents that may be checking in here that I met in Calgary this month at the Alberta Childrens Hospital and the Rockyview Hospital in their Birth and Babies class when I presented infant touch and massage. Infant Self Calming is an idea that I find truly amazing and important for new parents to be aware of and informed about. It goes like this: babies have an innate, instinctual knowledge of how to calm themselves, they know how to do it. However, they need their parents help to figure it out. Awareness that their baby can do this marvelous thing and the skill to guide their baby in the process and to let them discover it, is invaluable for new parents. The main ways a baby can calm themselves can include: non-nutritive sucking, body movement and position and vision.
It takes time and communication with your baby for it all to unfold, but imagine, learning how to calm yourself at this tender age, what a lifelong gift. As a Massage Therapist, I know that one of the areas we as adults have trouble with is how to "relax inside", to stay calm when life gets stressful, when circumstances and life events just begin to pile up. If we learnt how to relax inside as tiny babies, what would our lives be like? It's often said that stress is accountable for many ills and problems in our lives. What if we could head this all off at the pass - to physically and emotionally calm down in the face of stress, to truly "go with the flow", and not suffer ill effects from "trying situations". Also, it is said that it's not the stress that gets you , it's how you deal with it. Well, a baby learning that they can self calm is to me, a wonderful , important piece of information and well worth learning about. The term is "self-soothing, or self-calming" and I recommend the book "The Self-Calmed Baby" A Revolutionary New Approach to Parenting Your Infant , written by Dr. William Sammonds MD
Take care and see you next posting!
Take care and see you next posting!!!
Dates: October 19,21,26,28 or Novmber 9,11,16,18, 2010
Location: LeSoleil Health and Wellness, #15, 9353-50St. Edmonton, Alberta
Time: 10-11 am contact Sharon for more information and to register
Also: Loving Hands for Expectant Parents: 10-12 noon Sat.Nov 13, 2010
Hi everyone,welcome to my SWEET BABY DREAM BLOG and a special hello to any new parents that may be checking in here that I met in Calgary this month at the Alberta Childrens Hospital and the Rockyview Hospital in their Birth and Babies class when I presented infant touch and massage. Infant Self Calming is an idea that I find truly amazing and important for new parents to be aware of and informed about. It goes like this: babies have an innate, instinctual knowledge of how to calm themselves, they know how to do it. However, they need their parents help to figure it out. Awareness that their baby can do this marvelous thing and the skill to guide their baby in the process and to let them discover it, is invaluable for new parents. The main ways a baby can calm themselves can include: non-nutritive sucking, body movement and position and vision.
It takes time and communication with your baby for it all to unfold, but imagine, learning how to calm yourself at this tender age, what a lifelong gift. As a Massage Therapist, I know that one of the areas we as adults have trouble with is how to "relax inside", to stay calm when life gets stressful, when circumstances and life events just begin to pile up. If we learnt how to relax inside as tiny babies, what would our lives be like? It's often said that stress is accountable for many ills and problems in our lives. What if we could head this all off at the pass - to physically and emotionally calm down in the face of stress, to truly "go with the flow", and not suffer ill effects from "trying situations". Also, it is said that it's not the stress that gets you , it's how you deal with it. Well, a baby learning that they can self calm is to me, a wonderful , important piece of information and well worth learning about. The term is "self-soothing, or self-calming" and I recommend the book "The Self-Calmed Baby" A Revolutionary New Approach to Parenting Your Infant , written by Dr. William Sammonds MD
Take care and see you next posting!
Take care and see you next posting!!!
