Bonding with Baby


For Pregnant Moms

Mothers & Midwives Nurturing & Caring Campaign

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How Nurturing Baby and Me During Pregnancy helps you in only 15 minutes a day
1. What is the Nurturing Baby and Me During Pregnancy Program?
  
  A 9-month week-by-week program that provides pregnant women with gentle guidance and engaging activities that nurture both her and baby through pregnancy, labor and birth. It contains an easy-to-follow guidebook, a pregnancy coach on audio CD, exercises and music. The guidebook teaches moms-to-be about each stage of baby’s development and how to take and active role and provide a good womb environment. The program contains a series of weekly exercises and activities, guided by the soothing voice of a pregnancy coach, to help women get in touch with their new selves and their growing baby. The program also features specially-composed music to soothe mom and stimulate baby during pregnancy and to comfort both during labor and birth.
2. Benefits:
  - A more relaxed enjoyable pregnancy,
  - Nurture baby’s healthy development and build early bonds,
  - Build inner strength and confidence to handle pregnancy, labor, birth and parenthood.
3. Easy 15-minute a day Program Basics -
  
  Click on these links for sample pages: Sample exercises are in Adobe PDF format or you may click to view the sample pages on a separate webpage if you don't want to download Adobe. Click here to download the free Adobe Reader).
  - How Using This Program Will Make You an Even Better Parent
  - Easy Program Steps (in PDF Format)
4. Each week you can...
  - Look forward to what’s in store for you and your baby for the week.
  - Learn something new about your developing baby.
  - See a sonogram of babies at your child’s stage and visualize what your baby may look like.
  - Understand your continuing role in nurturing your unborn child and helping your baby grow.
  - Learn what other new families have done to bond with their unborn children.
  - Take a daily Quiet Time breather and listen to soothing music to release stress.
  - Do a coach-guided exercise that will help you gain self-awareness and feel closer to your new baby each day.
Look inside the Nurturing Baby and Me guidebook
1. Includes Your Pregnancy Journal to record feelings and memories.
  
  Includes Stories how parents connected with their unborn babies:
  - Read how Susi C. saw herself cradling her baby:
    - Story from page 41 in PDF -
  Affirmations on how you can create “mantras” to help you stay strong and confident
  - Learn how you can get closer every day:
    - Sample from page 55 in pdf
  Read Sample Exercises to create and sing your own lullaby to baby
  
  Listen to your Pregnancy Coach on CD Guide you on a pregnancy exercise
  
  Sample Journal Page for Week 14
  - MY PREGNANCY JOURNAL : Each guidebook contains many blank pages with guides to inspire you to express your feelings during this special time. Don’t worry if you’re not much of a writer. Journal writing is simply about getting your inner thoughts and feelings out and on paper. Think of it as a diary —which no one else has to ever see— where writing down important thoughts gives you a sense of relief and makes things clearer to you. When you capture your thoughts and feelings as they happen, you’ll be saving precious memories to look back on when your baby is grown.
  - Week 14 Objective: Think and write about what baby This is a good time for you and the father or partner to think and make your guesses about what baby might look and be like. But they’re just guesses! Your baby will be special and unique in ways you can’t imagine yet, and that’s part of the joy of parenting. It’s also time to start to think about who’ll be responsible for what after your baby is born.
  - I think baby will have: Partner thinks:
    Eyes like__________________ Eyes like___________________
    Hair like___________________ Hair like___________________
    I’d like a boy or girl or either because:
    Your father would like a girl or boy or either because:
Read a sample pregnancy exercise
1. Read sample exercises
  
  Click on these links for sample pages: Sample exercises are in Adobe PDF format or you may click to view the sample pages on a separate webpage if you don't want to download Adobe.
  Click here to download the free Adobe Reader.
Listen to Nurturing Baby and Me music to soothe you and nurture baby development
1. Listen to Your Pregnancy Coach on CD
2. The exercises and music on the Nurturing Baby and Me CD were specifically developed to relax and gently guide you. Wherever you find this CD symbol, play that track. It will make your experience more fulfilling , more easy and fun. All you have to do is listen and go with the flow….
  
  (MP3 Format)
  Click the play button to start the sample, please allow a moment for the sample to load.
What moms and experts are saying about Nurturing Baby and Me
1. What moms and experts are saying about Nurturing Baby and Me
  - “This book goes beyond giving good information –it fills the heart and sends love, through Mom, to baby.”
    -- William Sears MD and Martha Sears RN, co-authors The Baby Book and The Birth Book
  - “I highly recommend this important resource to all parents-to-be.”
    --Dr. Glade Curtis, OB/GYN and author of Your Pregnancy Week by Week
  - "This program will engage your inner spirit and help you begin to connect with your baby and grow in ways you didn't think you could."
    --Deanne Williams, CNM Executive Director, American College of Nurse-Midwives
  - “ An elegant book with valuable measures to pleasurably strengthen the parental bond”
    --Dr. Clark Gillespie, M.D., American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Life Fellow and author of Your Pregnancy Month by Month.
  - “ Nurturing Baby and Me During Pregnancy is a vital concept presented in a refreshing, rewarding method.”
    –-Dr. Richard Crandall III, Family Physician, Landisville, PA.
  - “…especially good for women who may have ambivalent feelings or little support. The parent’s stories share good insights and the journal helps get out true feelings.”
    --Angela Bonner, RN, Childbirth and Breastfeeding Educator, Irving , Texas
  - “ This program will help make parents more confident and give them coping and relaxing skills for after baby arrives.”
    –-Jennifer Wilson, BA, LBSW, Parenting and Child Development Teacher, Spirit Lake, Iowa.
  - "...the exercises helped me shift my focus from the pain to imagining my baby and it always puts a smile on my face."
    --Elena D., New Britain, CT
Submit your own pregnancy and baby development story
1. Submit your own story about communicating and getting to know your unborn baby
  
  You’ve read some amazing stories of how some moms have connected with their unborn babies. We believe that nothing is more important in the world than the bond between mother and child.
  
  If you have an interesting story to tell about how you first nurtured and loved your baby, please share it. We’ve found that real experiences from “moms like me” is the best way to inspire others. So, write and tell us how you communicated with your baby before birth, what you experienced and how it may have affected your baby after birth .
  - Click here to share your story and family photograph.
  Feel free to send photographs to us at: tomberquist@sbcglobal.net.