essential movement to enhance your baby's development in the first year
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e-Newsletter 8
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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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News!
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| The Amazing Babies Moving Book in Italian
We are delighted to announce that we have signed an Agreement for the Italian translation of the Amazing Babies Moving Book with Macro Gruppo Editoriale Publishers.
What we accomplished in 2010
- The Amazing Babies Moving Book and DVD combo was launched in Spanish at the beginning of January.
- After a successful 4 year Parenting Program with HOP! Parenting Television in Israel, we are re-negotiating a Video-on-Demand contract for Amazing Babies Moving and Amazing Toddlers Moving DVDS.
- Parents are downloading our Book e-chapters Worldwide.
Social Media Marketing
- We launched our Free e-Newsletter in April through Constant Contact.
"The e-Newsletters hold very interesting information that as a new momma I appreciate." Lynn Buske, mother of a three-month-old. - Mondays are the day to read our weekly post in our Baby Buzz Blog.
Amazing Babies Moving is on FaceBook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
You can:
- Follow us on Twitter and send us a Tweet.
- Connect with us on LinkedIn
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| Newly Born - a Moving Journey | | 
A new mother announces: Our baby boy is born! He's very cute! He talks a lot! He smells good! and he's hungry!
Just born, this baby is only one day old. A recent article posed the question: What is it like to be a Baby? I want to emphasize new baby because a new baby's experiences and learning are incredible from the very first moment.
What is this new baby learning? Cradled in his mother's arms, he experiences her touch, vocalizing, breathing rhythm, and the warmth of her body as she holds him in her arms to feed him. He also experiences his thrilled father's embrace, his breath rhythm, voice, warmth and touch. Hearing his brother's and sister's exuberant voices and his grandparents' voices in the background, he is getting to know his family.
Newborns tune into things that move and his ability to focus on his parents' animated facial expressions provides a clue to the development of his visual attention. Babies also respond by mimicking movement. It has been welldocumented that when a baby is watching an adult's tongue waggle game they can mimic it from the first days of life.
A newborn's first cry stimulates his breathing and communicates a potent message for his parents to respond. By making different crying sounds, he is already able to communicate his needs more specifically.
Newborns are usually moving when they are awake. Developing in close relationship to the earth's pull, babies progress from yielding to gravity to pushing away from the force of gravity. Learning begins with gravity and his body and each antigravity movement will have a significant effect on his development. Filled with wonder, we are continually amazed at how much a new baby experiences in the first hours after his birth interacting and bonding to his parents and family, and to the earth - his new environment. |
| On My Back to Sleep | | 
This one-day old baby is placed in the best sleeping position for newborns - on his back to sleep. We notice at rest his hands are loosely flexed as with most newborns. |
| On my Tummy to Play | | When your baby is awake, place your baby on his tummy on a clean padded floor large enough for two. Start with once a day, when your baby is alert and not just after feeding. In the beginning, a baby may only be happy in the tummy position for a brief time, maybe only a few minutes but before long this will be his favorite place to play.
Two positions for babies to play in the early months are:
· Lying on their back
· Lying on their tummy
You will find detailed information on setting up a Tummy-Time place for Two and more FloorMoves™ Tips in our book and also in our archived e-Newsletters, featured Articles in our slider and in our Baby Buzz Blog on our website.
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| The Amazing Babies Moving Approach | | You will notice that our Products, Programs and Website are designed to emphasize our Amazing Babies Moving approach by defining two stages in the first year. These two stages are:
· Pre-Locomotion Baby - Newborn-5 months
· Locomotion Baby - 6-12 Months
Our focus is on the baby's natural movement development, expressive communication and self-motivated learning during each stage. The little babies' stories seen in our Video Vignettes and described in our book are unique and add variability to the Developmental Movement process.
We want to end this year on a note of wonder!
Watch for our little story inspired by this baby lying on her starry blanket with her focus on one Star!
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| Send this e-Newsletter to... | | Please send this newsletter to a parent, expectant parent, grandparent, and caregiver, who would be interested in our Feature Articles and Products that promote Parenting through Movement for a Healthy Lifestyle. Our next e-Newsletter will be sent the first week of January. You can now look forward to receiving your Amazing Babies Moving e-newsletter at the beginning of every month.
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| © e-newsletter 8 Beverly Stokes amazingbabiesmoving.com Dec. 2010 |
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