The benefits for babies:
The benefits for parents:
- To both stimulate and calm whilst supporting their natural development.
- To encourage their confidence and awareness along with their cognitive, communicative, social, emotional and physical development.
- To enjoy quiet and unhurried time with parents, which will enhance bonding.
- To help their parents feel calmer and more confident about responding to their needs.
The benefits for parents:
- To support parents to build a calm, safe, and soothing space where they can grow and transition into their new roles.
- To spend quality time with their baby in a calming and supportive atmosphere where they will benefit from carefully designed exercises to help themselves relax, unwind, and feel more confident and grounded.
- To learn how to take note of their feelings, and to develop the tools to calm or adjust themselves as needed.
- To help parents learn to how to respond to the 'dance of parenthood' from a place of feeling calm and centred.
- To help parents feel calmer and more relaxed while they bond with their baby and support their development.
- To introduce parents to practical life tools that will be beneficial throughout their parenting journey.
- To help parents become more aware of the link between their emotional state and that of their baby.
- To encourage parents to realise that their needs are important too, and to recognise the value of nurturing themselves.
- To encourage parents to believe that they have the "permission" to just stop and rest, and to take some time for themselves.
