Infant Massage Workshop

Communicate through touch.
Touch is absolutely vital to your baby's health, well-being, and sense of security. Infant massage is a simple and effective way to encourage your baby's growth and development, alleviate birth trauma and other anxieties, and build a bond of trust and love between parent and child.

Baby massage promotes strengthening of the digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems (not yet fully developed at birth), helps to relieve the discomfort associated with gas, constipation, and colic, stimulates brain development, and can promote a more restful sleep. Infant massage movements also help to encourage circulation, moving nutrients and proteins through the body more effectively and strengthening the immune system.

For a baby, touch is the primary means of communiction. Your baby reads more than you know from your touch, and responds to your moods. In first-time parents, parents of preemies or high-needs babies, and adoptive parents especially, infant massage can help introduce early confidence and relaxation in holding and responding to your new baby.

Workshop Details: This 1 hour workshop is open to newborns through 8 months or so. Please bring a receiving blanket, an extra burping cloth, and your favorite baby lotion or massage oil (available at Mother Nurture, next door to Baby Moon). $25 per triad: Mom, baby, and dad (or caregivers of your choice); includes massage booklet. Instructor: Kendra Adkisson.

See Natural Parenting Class Calendars for upcoming dates.

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Slings & Things

Have you noticed how many different baby carrying products are on the market?? Some of today's most popular brands are not all they're cracked up to be. This workshop gives you a chance to try out and try on a variety of different options to help you make a good decision for you and your baby--before you buy. Wraps, rebozos, slings, mei tai's, front packs...learn about different baby wearing techniques and leave feeling confident about what will work for you! Pregnant mamas welcome, baby demos provided (take this class before you register for your baby shower!), new mamas bring your babies.

FREE DEMOS held weekly, see Natural Parenting Calendar for dates and times.

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Cloth Diapering Workshop

Cloth diapering is not what it used to be! We have so many more options than Grandma did with her safety pins and rubber pants. If you would like to learn more about the benefits of cloth diapering (health benefits for baby, benefits for the environment, and cost savings of $1500 - $3000 per child, for example), or if you just need help getting started, this workshop is for you. Come take a look at several different brands of cloth diapers and covers, and see just how easy it can be. We'll discuss what supplies you'll need and a couple of different washing methods. Ask questions from an experienced cloth diapering mom!

FREE DEMOS held weekly, see Natural Parenting Calendar for dates and times.

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Infant Potty Training

Discover the art of infant potty training! Inspired by traditional practices worldwide, infant potty training is a gentle, nurturing, and practical way to care for baby. Learn to recognize your baby's cues and introduce the potty as early as 4 months. On average, babies are toilet trained by 18 months using this method. Eases the transition to toddler toilet training and builds communication between baby and and parent. Ideally parents should start with this method before 4 months of age for optimum results, but the techniques can be applied to any age child still in diapers. Instructor: Tatsiana McGee. $18.

This class is currently not scheduled. Please contact us for more information.

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Growing Peaceful Families Parenting Workshops

Finally, some education for all of us on what to do AFTER the birth, once we are tasked with the responsibility of raising a healthy, happy, well-adjusted child! We are excited to bring a series of parenting workshops to Baby Moon in 2007. Growing Peaceful Families offers a positive approach to parenting. We will learn how to resolve conflicts without power struggles, focus on the problem without judging the child, allow children to solve their own problems (offering guidance when needed), replace negative motivational messages (guilt, threats, bribes) with positive messages, and assist children in becoming self-sufficient, responsible, and self-confident. Topics announced quarterly.

Instructors: Lesley Iwinski, MD and Certified Parenting Instructor, and Schuy Roop, Certified Parenting Instructor and Montessori Teacher. For parents only, please no children. $30. Advanced registration is required, please contact us.

April 2007: Handling Power Struggles

July 2007: Turning Terrible 2's into Terrific 2's

October 2007: Consequences That Work
This 2-hours hands-on workshop explores creative alternatives to punishment using natural and logical consequences. We will review children and their needs, tools for preventing misbehavior, and remedies to use when misbehavior occurs. The focus of this session will be on creating solutions for real-life situations that are effective, decrease hurt feelings and rebellion, and teach children some valuable life lessons. When you leave you will have some new ideas and feel more confident about your ability to provide consequences to guide your child's behavior.

January 2008: Creating Cooperative Families
The amount of cooperation you receive from your family often reflects your style of parenting. Learn nine ways that using a democratic (NOT permissive) style can help you to create a more cooperative atmosphere in your home, earning you and your family more peace, joy and satisfaction.

February 2008: Communicate with your Valentine
Did you know that the quality of our relationships is primarily dependent on our ability to communicate? The simple secret to communication is.....we'll find out, just in time for Valentine's Day! Bring your Valentine and learn how to effectively communicate with and better understand one another. Plan to share a candlelight dinner together afterwards. We will help by giving away a $25 gift certificate to Sal's Restaurant!

See Natural Parenting Class Calendar for dates and times.

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