Module 4: Mother-baby & family in the first year
Mother-baby & family in the first year
- Family fulcrums -transitions & a model for family health assessment.
- Mother and baby healing- physiological form & function changes for survival in the first few days.
- Mother and baby growing- transitions in feeding-sleeping- teething-communication-play.
- Baby movement patterns through counter balancing reflexes.
- Family relationship and maintaining health with premature or disabled infants.
- 15 hours CPD per module
Weekend Timetable
Saturday and Sunday
Start 9.30
Lunch 12.30-2
Finish 5.30
Patient Clinic
Saturday 4pm Demonstration with patient/s by presenter
Sunday 2.30-3.30 Participants practice with patient/s
References for further reading
Bainbridge Cohen B, 2003, Sensing, Feeling and Action: the experiential anatomy of Body-Mind Centering, Contact Editions, Northampton, MA
Kabat-Zinn M & J, 1997, Everyday Blessings- the inner work of mindful parenting, Hyperion, NY
Minchin M, 1998, Breastfeeding Matters, 4th Ed (revised), Alma Publications, Australia
Moeckel E & Mitha N (Eds), 2008, Textbook of Pediatric Osteopathy, Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, London
Sears W & Sears M, 2005, Baby Book: everything you need to know about your baby from birth to age two, Thorsons, London
Stern D, 2006, The interpersonal world of the infant: a view from psychoanalysis and development psychology, Karnac Books Ltd, London
