Dive deeper into the Art of Nurturescience! In this advanced training for doulas and other health professionals, understand the key role you can play to determine whether a baby experiences “nurture” or “protest and despair” at birth. Learn about:
- how nurture matters for brain wiring of all babies, but how also to apply this for small and sick babies (premature).
- the powerful connection of mother and baby — the two truths — Zero-Separation of mother-baby is our biology, and the mother-baby dyad should never be left alone.
- the Innate Newborn Agenda - The mother’s body precisely controls every element of her infant’s physiology, from heart rate to release of hormones, appetite, temperature, and the intensity of activity. “This creates an invisible hot house in which the infants’ development can unfold.” (Hofer)
- how brain wiring is place-dependent - the critical moments at birth and after are when baby brain cells are fired and wired by maternal sensory inputs. There are more synapses in the brain of a newborn baby than stars in the universe, so every baby is born with the full potential of the universe.
- ways to help avoid Infant Brain Dysregulation and enhance social connection through life (to avoid the tendency for later social withdrawal)
- Optimal stabilization at birth
- Emotional connection with mother and family
- Early suckling and breastfeeding
- Sleep cycles and rhythms
- Adaptation to the bright, noisy and cold world outside the womb
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- help babies calm down and protect their baby’s brain development
- read the sensory environment
- empower parents to read their baby’s signals and practical things to do
