PARENTING YOUR NEWBORN:

EXPECTANT PARENTS!

Acquire Skills
Attain Knowledge,
Achieve Confidence

SATURDAYS
9:45am - 11:45am

AUG - 2008

[If Day or Time does not fit
your schedule, call Sharon]

$50.00 Per Couple
2 hours Class
Pre-Birth Preparation

Class Location: map
1526 Archery Lane
Garland, TX 75044

Topics Covered

• Life with your new baby - a reality check
• States of newborn consciousness - sleep and alertness
• Interpreting your baby's cues
• Activating your baby's 'calming reflex'
• Crying and colic
  
  
• Infant temperament and personality development
• Muscle development
• Beginnings of language and vision
• Hand play and hand-eye co-ordination
• Social development
  
  
• Different parental styles of play - opportunities for play
• How-to: burp, hold, swaddle, bathe and diaper
• Brain growth - stimulation
• Birth - bonding - attachment
  
  
• Communication - behaviors - dance of attunement - speaking
• Health and nutrition
• Discipline - spoiling - limits
• Self - Esteem
  
• Child Care
• New roles - the marital relationship
• Birth control methods
• Problem solving