What Australian Colleagues Country Almost The Hug Your Infant Workshop!

It was  a joy to part HUG Your Baby amongst nascence together with early on parenting professionals inward Adelaide, Cairns together with Brisbane. These professionals had of import questions to ask, inspiring stories to tell, together with exciting plans to part for how they mightiness comprise HUG Your Baby into their endure amongst immature families!

Here is what they said close this workshop:

What was your favorite expression of the HUG Your Baby workshop?

·       The interaction amongst participants

·       Practical tips – peculiarly “broadcasting & commentating”

·      Resources to amend equip parents inward their journeying to parenting

·      Identifying babe cues, SOSs together with how to encourage engagement amongst fathers

·      Workshop was fun, interactive together with relevant that fits good amongst my meat beliefs

·      Videos of immature parents

·      A real practiced solar daytime - interesting, informative, never boring. Excellent. Thank you.

·      Jan is together with thence wonderfully passionate close working amongst families together with it definitely shows! 

·      This was a most enjoyable day

·      I convey already used The HUG techniques amongst babies that were solely two to iv hrs old-- together with it works!

You tin read all close our July 2016 Australian/New Zealand HERE.  

Hug Your Babe Comes To Brisbane, Australia

It is a groovy joy to discovery our agency to Brisbane as well as our concluding Australian HUG Your Baby training. The Brisbane River, twisting its agency through the city, accessible transportation, as well as a various population (both inwards people as well as animals!) contributes to Brisbane beingness identified equally i of the almost “livable” cities inwards the world. All they look to require is a large HUG!

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H5N1 large crowd of nurses, midwives, lactation consultants—and fifty-fifty a nanny who fosters newborns—join us to acquire tools as well as resources that hand parents the powerfulness to view as well as empathise their babies’ trunk language.

Among other issues, nosotros review the rising incidence of anxiety as well as low inwards today’s parents as well as how those parents oft misread what a babe is communicating. Participants manage that HUG’s family-friendly linguistic communication (such equally a newborn’s “Resting, Ready as well as Rebooting Zones” as well as how a babe “Sends out an SOS—Sign of Over-Stimulation”) volition growth parents’ confidence as well as heighten attachment to their babies.

Because “sleep training” of infants as well as babies has acquire pop (and controversial) inwards Australia, HUG trainees were relieved to consider how The HUG’s data on Active/Light as well as Still/Deep sleep, as well as on normal slumber patterns, mightiness assistance decrease the require for to a greater extent than aggressive bring upwards training.

Our cerise TicTacs were pop i time once to a greater extent than equally a uncomplicated tool to demonstrate a baby’s capacity to engage visually. Participants were reminded that many infants receive got a normal hesitation inwards the displace of their eyes equally they start to orient. Specific techniques were shown to equip HUG trainees to assistance all babies move a star equally they demonstrate how cook as well as able they are to engage amongst their parents, as well as the world!

I was peculiarly happy to view Ann Thistleton, who had taken HUG Your Baby online courses to acquire Brisbane’s starting fourth dimension Certified HUG Teacher. She shared amongst the grouping her sense using HUG Your Baby amongst Australian parents as well as expressed please inwards the ideas that were offered inwards this one-day workshop.

Jim as well as I LOVE Brisbane, as well as nosotros promise to provide hither inwards the future, when nosotros facial expression to discovery fifty-fifty to a greater extent than Certified HUG Teachers working amongst fortunate families inwards Queensland!

Cairns, Australia Gets A Big Hug!

We had a quick flying from Adelaide to Cairns in addition to were greeted past times the most amazing "dead of winter" weather. We shed our fleeces, hats in addition to gloves in addition to set on lightweight shirts in addition to sunscreen to taste the tropical climate!

I felt directly at abode when I unpacked my HUG workshop gear inwards the Cairns Base Hospital, where wellness professionals are trained at the James Cook medical school. Since Cairns wellness professionals must oftentimes go far in addition to broad for relevant continuing education, they appreciated our Australian host belongings a HUG workshop here.

During the past times 2 workshops I cause got spent to a greater extent than fourth dimension demonstrating actual techniques to engage a newborn to aspect at a toy or confront in addition to response to a voice. I presented my highly valued developmental assessment tool: an AU$2 box of cherry-red TicTacs! I explained that non exclusively create they cause got a non bad sound, you lot tin swallow them if you lot forget your lunch!

I remind participants that most newborns cause got a 2nd of hesitation earlier their eyes start to motion inwards response to visual or auditory stimulation. “Be even then in addition to halt shaking the rattle or moving your caput a few seconds when you lot come across this hesitation,” I explain. “If you lot don’t, the infant may shipping out an SOS in addition to exactly 'Shut Down'." I warned that it is probable to involve practicing this technique amongst at to the lowest degree 10 babies earlier getting comfortable amongst it. But equally nosotros are fond of saying, "It takes courage to larn something new!"

Several of the nurses, midwives in addition to LCs expressed trouble organisation nearly how to response "if the infant exactly can't create it."


Since it is our chore to come across EVERY infant equally a success, I demo in addition to verbalize over video of a baby’s steps to gaining this skill. When a infant does non orient equally expected, the professional person tin say, "I come across your infant gets serenity in addition to even then when she sees the toy. That's great! In the adjacent calendar week or then she volition endure able to aspect at that toy amongst her eyes in addition to after endure able to motion both her eyes in addition to her caput equally the toy moves." Such data reassures parents in addition to gives them the mightiness to come across their infant grow inwards her engagement amongst the world.

The "Broadcasting in addition to Commentating" practise session was particularly fun inwards Cairns. Participants' comments included: "I noticed I started to come across to a greater extent than equally I was Broadcasting"; "Broadcasting is similar learning a novel language"; and, "I'm certain a bring upwards would experience I've actually connected amongst their baby." What at starting fourth dimension seemed similar a elementary idea, at nowadays seemed, to some, equally merely amazing!

I finished my 24-hour interval having a special conversation amongst a maternal-child wellness nurse who travels past times little airplane to see isolated Aboriginal in addition to Islander villages. She has remarkable pictures, videos, in addition to stories to part nearly her patients, who cause got potent household unit of measurement bonds, pregnant struggles amongst poverty, in addition to amazing passion for their babies. We brain-stormed nearly the possibility of collaborating on a HUG video mades particularly for Australia's indigenous families.



And of course, no trip to Cairns is consummate without a snorkel trip to the Great Barrier Reef. It was indeed a privilege to come across a reef arrangement of this magnitude. As exciting equally that was, it did non travail Jim in addition to me equally much joy in addition to laughter equally watching each other squirm into our wetsuits!