The Bond With Baby Program Written Information

Subscribing to Bond With Baby for $19.95 will give you unlimited access to the program's content including the written information shown below, that provides a book's worth of reading for the first year with Baby.

Samples of the program's written information are available under 'Program Samples' in 'Bond With Baby ... at a Glance' on the left of this page.

Index to the Bond With Baby Written Information

Parenting: From the Beginning

• The Role of the Parent
• Becoming a Mother
• Myths of Motherhood
• Challenges of Becoming a Mother
• Becoming a Father
• Challenges of Becoming a Father
• The Role of Grandparents
• Social Support and Parenting
• Sources of Social Support

Parenting Styles

• Child Rearing Practices and Parenting Styles
• How Parenting Styles Affect Children's Development
• Conflicting Ideas About Raising Baby
• Developing Parenting Practices to Enhance Baby's Wellbeing: Where to Begin?
• Establishing Family Rituals and Traditions

Bonding and Beyond

• What it Means to Bond with Your Baby
• Why Bonding is Crucial to Baby's Wellbeing
• Infant Attachment
• Together as One: The Parent-Baby Partnership Develops
• What Can Disrupt Parents Bonding with Their Baby?
• Infant Temperament

Communicating with Baby

• What Your Interactions 'Say' to Baby
• Baby Talk: It's Not Just about What You Say
• Singing to Baby: It's Music to the Ear
• Rythmical Movement: From Soothe to Groove
• Touch, Hand and Facial Gestures: Essential Expressions
• Over-stimulation and Intrusive Interactions

Postnatal Depression (PND)

• Postnatal Depression
• How PND Affects Mothers
• How PND Affects Fathers
• How PND Affects Babies

Shaping the Day

• Routineness with Baby
• How to Shape the Day
• Let's Relax

Caregiving Routines

• Caregiving Routines
• Feeding
• Nappy/Diaper Changing and Dressing
• Bath-time
• Sleep-time

Baby's Not Sleeping

• Difficulty in Settling Baby at Bedtime
• Night-time Waking and Re-settling
• Infant Sleep Apnea

Baby's Crying

• Baby's Crying
• Soothing Baby
• Parents' Frustration and Distress
• Colic and Excessive, Persistent Crying
• What to Do if Baby Starts a Pattern of Excessive Crying

Let's Play

• Play, Play, Play - an Essential Part to Every Day!
• When to Begin
• Setting Up a Play Area - Indoors and Outdoors
• The Parents' Trap: Buying Toys and DVDs
• Golden Rules to Buying Toys
• Ideas for Easy-made Toys
• Play Activities Chart for the First Year of Development

Development and Learning

• Be Baby's Most Effective Teacher
• The 'How To' Guide
• Developmental Milestones During the First Year
• Physical Development
• Cognitive Development
• Language and Speech Development
• Social amd Emotional Development

Babies' Safety

• Keeping Baby Safe
• Indoors
• Outdoors
• With Pets
• During Caregiving Routines
• During Play
• In the Car