Your Happy Baby

Author: Sheena Meredith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845971304
Category : Exercise for children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this beautifully illustrated book, Tina Lam, Clare Mundy, and Glenda Taylor pool their wisdom and expertise with that of leading medical writer Sheena Meredith to create a wealth of inspirational advice about how to increase your baby's happiness and encourage sound sleep - and boost your confidence and satisfaction as a parent.Written by a team of experts in their field, "Your Happy Baby" combines photographs by Dan Duchars with clear, step-by-step instructions to extol the benefits of baby massage, yoga, and gym, and demonstrates enjoyable exercises you can do with your baby to develop physical skills and promote well-being and calm. It also explains how to use aromatherapy and other gentle therapies to enhance your baby's sense of inner harmony. This is a book that will allow you to make the most of the precious months of your child's babyhood. Here are techniques you can use to get to know each other, have fun, and create a time that you will always look back on with joy.

Baby Massage and Yoga

Author: Anita Thomas-Epple
Publisher: Teach Yourself
ISBN: 144412904X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
Baby Massage and Yoga shows you how to get in touch with your baby using the technique of gentle massage and yoga exercises. It offers practical information demonstrating which tools, techniques and insights you'll need to best expose both yourself and your child to the many physical and emotional benefits of massage - including when the best times are, which oils to use and how to set the environment. It connects massage and yoga with story-telling, music and rhyme to increase mental and physical development, giving step-by-step guides simple massage routines for every part of the body. You'll learn simple yoga routines which you can try safely and effectively with your baby. Parents of children with special needs are shown simple, therapeutic exercises and plenty of practical and useful advice. Discover the healing power of touch with this authoritative, helpful and expertly written guide. ABOUT THE SERIES People have been learning with Teach Yourself since 1938. With a vast range of practical, how-to guides covering language learning, lifestyle, hobbies, business, psychology and self-help, there's a Teach Yourself book for whatever you want to do. Join more than 60 million people who have reached their goals with Teach Yourself, and never stop learning.

Baby Massage For Dummies

Author: Joanne Bagshaw
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118070038
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
Explains massage for preemies, newborns, and toddlers Soothe your baby and promote well-being the all-natural way Curious about baby massage? Featuring illustrations and step-by-step instructions, this friendly guide makes it easy to use techniques that can reduce your baby's stress; ease the discomfort of colic, constipation, and teething; and create a strong attachment between the two of you. You'll also find suggestions for making massage part of your everyday routine. Discover how to: * Ease common ailments * Enhance your bond with your baby * Stimulate growth and development * Comfort a fussy baby * Massage babies with special needs

Baby Om

Author: Laura Staton
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 1466867604
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
A dynamic yoga program for new mothers and their babies How does a new mother get back her shape without giving up precious time with her baby? In Baby Om, authors Laura Staton and Sarah Perron -- both dancers, yoga instructors, and moms themselves -- answer the new mother's need for a calming and rigorous way to align and strengthen her body while having fun with her baby. Based on their popular New York classes of the same name, Baby Om takes mothers through a yoga practice they can do with their infants -- anytime and anywhere. The techniques help new mothers enjoy the spiritual and physical benefits of yoga, allowing them to nurture themselves as well as their babies. This easy-to-use book includes: --Baby Om basics -- the practical information you need to get started --baby engagement -- how to play with and stimulate your baby during yoga --four step-by-step Baby Om classes -- each concentrating on a unique stage in your child's development The beautiful illustrations and photographs in Baby Om capture the intimate sharing between mother and child, and create a visual model for how to achieve the poses at home. Safe, effective, and easy to learn, Baby Om brings mother and baby together, ensuring the health and happiness of both.

Itsy Bitsy Yoga

Author: Helen Garabedian
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439188750
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
The ancient practice of yoga will help your baby sleep better, digest easier, be happier, and stay healthier. Start today. If you've been searching for an excellent way to bond with your baby and improve his or her health, Itsy Bitsy Yoga is the solution you've been looking for. Helen Garabedian, a certified instructor in yoga and infant massage, has developed over seventy yoga postures and thirty-five series for moms and dads to enjoy with their growing babies. You don't need any previous yoga experience. Learn the many benefits of yoga, posture by posture, in this accessible guide, with seventy beautiful black-and-white photos, at-a-glance reference charts, and memorable Itsy Bitsy Yoga rhymes. Yoga can help babies up to two years of age: sleep better get relief from gas pains and colic digest food easier stay healthier with a strong immune system receive neuromuscularm stimulation learn to relax The book also features seven Magic Poses that can soothe fussy, upset babies within minutes! So start enjoying more time with your happy yoga baby right now.

Infant Massage (Fourth Edition)

Author: Vimala McClure
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0425286673
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Master the techniques of infant massage and incorporate this joyful and wonderful healing art into your baby’s life with this revised and updated edition. For generations, mothers around the world have known that the soft touch of their hands soothes, calms, and communicates their love to their babies. The latest scientific research confirms that physical affection is vital to the development and wellness of children—easing discomfort, releasing tension, improving sleep, helping premature infants gain weight, even aiding asthmatic children to improve their breathing. Now Vimala McClure, founder of the International Association of Infant Massage, has revised and updated her beloved classic. Inside you’ll find • specific routines tailored to help relieve colic, fever, and chest and nasal congestion • easy-to-follow instructions and photographs demonstrating each step • new information on the benefits of skin-to-skin contact • instructions for premature infants and babies with special needs • lullabies, rhymes, and games to enhance the massage experience • a special chapter dedicated to fathers • compassionate advice for foster and adoptive parents Praise for Infant Massage “Speaking as a pediatrician, the best advice I can give you is to try the techniques described in this book.”–Stephen Berman, M.D., F.A.A.P., former president, American Academy of Pediatrics “What a brilliant way to love and nurture a child! The first connection between parent and child is physical, through the body; by using the techniques Vimala McClure has developed, your parental relationship will be off to a magnificent start.”—Judy Ford, author of Wonderful Ways to Love a Child

Yoga Baby

Author: DeAnsin Goodson Parker, Ph.D.
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
Sharing the techniques and philosophies conveyed in Parker's classes, this book teaches exercises to mothers or caregivers of newborns through 2-year-olds. Exercises will help readers bond with their babies physically, emotionally, and spiritually. 33 photos. 21 line drawings.

The Little Book of Baby Massage

Author: Jo Kellett
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744022053
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Easy massage routines to soothe your baby and communicate love. To a baby, touch is talk, and with these soothing techniques, you and your child can share some of your most fulfilling communicative moments. Calm and comfort your baby from head to toe with a step-by-step full-body massage; discover ways to incorporate massage into your baby's day-to-day routine; and ease common ailments such as colic, teething, and constipation. With expert guidance from a Certified Infant Massage Instructor, explore the physical and emotional benefits of baby massage and enjoy this most intimate way to relax, soothe, and nurture.

Thai Massage Techniques for Pregnancy, Labor & Postpartum

Author: Noam Tyroler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789659224272
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
A Practitioners guidebook for the treatment of pregnant and postpartum women. This guide explains 25 treatment routines for the treatment of common pregnancy and postpartum discomforts. The guide includes a treatment routine during labor.

Baby Massage

Author: Gayle Berry
Publisher: Spruce
ISBN: 9781840728026
Category : Infants
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Shows how massage helps baby, uses easy massage strokes, shows a head-to-toe massage, massage tips for older infants and toddlers, includes case histories.