essential movement to enhance your baby's development in the first year
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April 2010
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Greetings!
If this is your first visit, we are delighted
to introduce our new Amazing Babies Moving™ interactive
website for parents, caregivers, educators and professionals. If you are a previous customer or have
visited our Amazing Babies website before, you will notice that we have changed
our logo to better reflect our focus on Movement. Our team has been working behind the scenes
for many months to make this an informative and interactive learning experience for you.
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· The Amazing Babies Moving Book gets a boost in a New York Times Blog! See the article: "The Dangers of Baby Walkers - Dr. Alan Green" Feb. 22, 2010.
· Reader Blog Comment:
"Amazing Babies" is a fantastic book about infant motor development that suggests games for parent & baby and exercises for the parent alone to explore the lines of movement that are developed in the first year of life (e.g. the head/tail developmental line that results in picking up the head, the side line that results in side-bending, the contralateral line essential for crawling, etc.). Tons of fun and fascinating to the new parent. After reading through this book you will have a gut-level understanding as to why walkers do not help and actually hinder motor development.
Donna Luder
Monterey, California
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| See Chapter 4
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 In Chapter 4 we included a section on Infant Seats, Baby Swings, Exersaucers and Playpens to help parents evaluate appropriate use with their baby. In the same section we added the following information about walkers:
Important Notes: p. 67
"Baby Walkers: studies have shown that walkers pose a potential risk when babies are left unattended in them. As well, walkers prevent development of a baby's postural control when weight bearing and weight shifting while walking."
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| Parenting through Movement for a Healthy Lifestyle
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Medical Researchers now suggest the optimal age for instilling healthy eating and activity behaviors is before age 2.
Is There an Obesity Tipping Point in Infancy?
Time.com Online article March 26, 2010. Dr. John Harrington, M.D.
"Harrington's study, first published online in February by the Journal Clinical Pediatrics, suggests the optimal age for instilling healthy eating and activity behaviors is before age 2.
This supports our focus on Movement Development and FloorMoves activities for your baby right from the start!
FloorMoves Tips for You and Your Baby
· Choose a time that is good for your baby: when he is rested, dry, fed and alert.
· Choose a time that is good for you: when you are calmly, attentive to your baby.
· Create a place on the floor for your baby: a clean padded surface on a carpet.
· Create enough space for you to lie down and face your baby.
· Change sides on alternate days so that you face your baby on each side.
When
you provide your baby with enough floor space to play, he can initiate
his own play explorations. When observing your baby, actively focus on
what he is doing. The more familiar you become to your baby's
responses, the easier it will be for you to recognize how his movement
development enhances his self-motivated play explorations.
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Interact with Your Baby
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"Research
has found that it is the quality of the infant-caregiver interaction
rather than the quantity of care that establishes the health in the
attachment bond. In other words, the caregiver's sensitivity to the
infant's gestures when they are interacting is of paramount
importance." PBS' 'This Emotional Life': The Building Blocks of
Connection, Part 1.
For more information, see pbs.org/thisemotionallife
Tuning in to your baby's gestures in social interactions enhances the
bonding process. Follow a little look, touch, movement or sound.
These are the body language signals your baby uses to communicate her
interest to interact or need to take a break. Let your baby take the
lead in your social interactions. Even a two-month-old's ability to
turn her head to each side lets her regulate her excitement by turning
toward or away from stimulation in social interactions.
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| A Toddler's Vocalizing Game
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Recently I was playing with a toddler on the floor and had a delightful
experience by following her lead in a vocalizing game. We were both on
hands and knees and then she lay her head on the floor, lying on her
cheek, facing me. I did the same. Face to face with this 2 year
old toddler, she began vocalizing vowel sounds in a very sweet voice,
so I joined in. After several minutes she sat up and I followed her
lead.
She turned to me and said: "Having fun Beverly?"
I said "Yes"
Then she said: "Want to do it again?"
I said: "Yes"
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did this several times repeating the vocalizing and sitting up and each
time and she would tune into me and ask if I would like to continue.
We vocalized for almost 15 minutes.
· Watch for a future article on this theme on our website.
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