Nurturing Connections
The Women's Pavilion at WCH is excited to offer Nurturing Connections Classes and the many benefits these techniques have to offer to families. Parents will learn different massage strokes that can help relieve your baby of a variety of discomforts as well as enhance bonding, connection, and attachment. You will also learn what products and oils are safe to use with babies. You will learn to understand your baby's cues and nurturing techniques to respond to those cues. You will be taught an additional way to communicate with your baby through loving touch and massage.
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The Whole Family Can Benefit from Our Nurturing Connections Classes
Our certified instructors will guide and teach parents techniques that can be utilized throughout the child's life.
Benefits:
- Enhance the connection, bonding, and attachment between mother and child.
- Improve infant sleep
- Improve breastfeeding
- Helps Relieve, gas pains, colic, and teething discomfort
- Assist in infant gain weight.
- Has been shown to help babies self-soothe
- It is enjoyable for the whole family.
Classes are appropriate for ages newborn - 12 months.
Up to 2 parents/guardians are welcome to join their child in these classes.
Classes Offered
This series will consist of two 1hr classes per month for a cost of $50. Parents will be learning all the baby strokes from head to toe. You will receive information that will help as your infant grows and provide you with techniques you can use at various stages of the baby's development.
- Class 1: Legs, Feet, Stomach, Colic Relief
- Class 2: Chest, Arms, Hands, Face, Back and Gentle Movements. A review of strokes from Class 1
Classes will be held on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month, either 10 - 11am or 6 - 7 pm in the Outpatient Pavilion of WCH.