HAPPIEST BABY
Are you ready to be a parent?
New babies are such a blessing, but they can also bring with them sleepless nights,
crying and sometimes quite a bit of extra stress.
Learn an extraordinary approach to keeping your baby happy. In the Happiest Baby
class new parents will learn step-by-step how to help their baby sleep better and how
to soothe even the fussiest baby in minutes…even seconds!
Magic? A miracle? No, it's a reflex! The class is based on the highly effective, new
approach to babies pioneered by Dr. Harvey Karp.
New and Expectant Parents will also learn:
- Why the idea of colic due to gas pains is mostly an old wives tale.
- Why keeping the house quiet may actually be upsetting to many newborns.
- Why most babies get more upset in the evening.
- Why it's impossible to spoil young babies.
- An easy way to help infants sleep a few more hours at night.
- Why fathers are often the best baby calmers in the family.
Please join me for this innovative 2 ½ hour class. The class is held one
afternoon or evening but you can attend as many times as you like. You pay only for
the first class. The classes are held either privately in your own home or you can
attend a scheduled class. Classes are held at least one time per month.
Please call Barbara Gowan at 613-225-0253 or e-mail at
cherishedtymesdoula@sympatico.ca
for further information.
Click here to download a registration form.
Philosophy of the program
The Happiest Baby approach finally explains what is colic and more importantly teaches
parents how to calm down almost any crying baby in minutes...or seconds (by turning
on the "calming reflex"). The calming reflex also helps babies sleep an extra 1-2
hours per night too! This is not sleep training.
The two skills ALL new moms need to learn to feel like great parents are nursing...and
baby calming. If they are good at those 2 skills they feel like the greatest successes
in the world!
Our goals for the program are:
- Improve parental bonding. Including teens moms, Dr. Karp's work is
being used in several teen classes across the country.
- Improve father participation. The Happiest Baby is being incorporated
by Nat Fatherhood Forum and the Boot Camp for New Dads program.
- Improve nursing success rates. The 5 S's are being taught in
lactation clinics all across the country (including every WIC lactation clinic in Ohio).
The DVD is promoted by LLLI, and he has been invited to speak to the annual
conferences of LLLI, Academy of Breast Feeding Medicine! To be sure, the 5 S's will
save many woman from nursing failure because crying babies lead to : 1) poor let down,
2) stress and fatigue that in turn cause poor milk production, 3) moms lose confidence
in themselves and worry that their milk is not good or there is a food allergy and go
on severe diets or stop nursing altogether, 4) moms sometimes come to resent nursing
when the only way they have to calm the baby is the breast, 5) crying often leads the
dads and in-laws to pressure the mom to stop nursing.
- Help prevent PP depression. Research shows that while hormonal
changes "load the gun" for depression in new moms, infant crying "pulls the trigger!"
So, teaching parents baby calming skills may help to lessen PPD.
- Help prevent shaken baby syndrome. Infant crying is the
precipitator of 95% of episodes of infant shaking...teaching baby calming skills has
the potential of preventing some of the 1400 SBS related hospitalizations/year in the US.
Testimonials for Happiest Baby
- I went from sleeping for two-hour stretches at night to a four hour and
then a three hour stretch - that happened on the first night that we started the
techniques and has continued every night since. Last night, he slept a four hour
and then a 4 1/2 hour stretch, so his sleep patterns seem to be getting even better!
- Even if he's a bit awake when I put him in his bed, he's usually able
to fall asleep on his own now because he feels safe in the wrapping and with the
white noise.
- After swaddling him only three or four times, I could tell that he knew
what I was doing and calmed down immediately once I started wrapping him.
- He has become more confident when he's awake - he's happier when he's
awake, and therefore able to look around and take everything in more than he could
when he was crying so much. I think that he knows now that he can go 'back into the
womb' when ever he needs to calm down and that must be reassuring to him.
- As long as I bring his white noise and his swaddling blanket, I can go
out and know that I have the tools to stop his crying almost instantly.
- Ever since I started with these techniques, my relationship with him
has improved - I'm now able to understand and meet his needs which makes both of us
much happier.
- Since the techniques work so well, it's very easy to start using them
whenever he starts getting upset.
- I am starting to really understand his cues as to when he needs his
swaddling (usually when he's getting overstimulated, he starts to hiccup and makes
some specific noises like he's asking to be wrapped!).
"You know that these techniques saved our sanity!" - Sarah O.
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