Hug Your Babe Goes To Novel Zealand

After a real LONG flying (or three), Jim in addition to I detect ourselves get-go our minute HUG Your Baby pedagogy tour inwards New Zealand in addition to Australia. Yesterday nosotros met experienced midwives, nurses in addition to lactation consultants inwards Rotorua, NZ. Though NZ inwards known worldwide for the first-class tending it offers mothers in addition to babies, it was exciting to hear, at the halt of the day, that these professionals felt that incorporating The HUG into their operate volition significantly elevate the tending they provide. Thanks to Barbara Glare for bringing us on this HUG Your Baby teaching tour!

New Zealand nascency in addition to parenting professionals enjoyed my favorite agency to review the morning's HUG cloth - Catching The KOOSH. We all express joy at our uncoordinated efforts to both select grip of a Koosh ball in addition to respond to my questions: 'What are the 3 Newborn Zones?" "Demonstrate the Rebooting Zone." "And, demo us what the 'Spacing Out SOS' looks like!" Incorporating physical activeness into the learning procedure is non exclusively fun; it also primes our brains for an afternoon of to a greater extent than novel information. 

We spent a lot of fourth dimension yesterday discussing the value of "Broadcasting a baby's behavior" in addition to using techniques to demonstrate a newborn's amazing capabilities. Extra fourth dimension was devoted to specific skills required to help a infant orient to a toy in addition to to a parent's confront in addition to voice. We also broke into groups in addition to skillful "Broadcasting" the direct of babies captured on video. Though these HUG concepts are easily understood, professionals ofttimes study that GIVING the HUG is to a greater extent than challenging than agreement the concepts! 

The grand finale for our NZ HUG Your Baby Workshop was HUG's Jeopardy Game. After dividing into teams, the participants worked together to come upward up amongst the correct enquiry to the response that was given: "Body in addition to Behavioral" (Question: What are 2 types of SOSs?), "Smacking lips, bringing manus to oral fissure in addition to wiggling" (Question: What are early on feeding cues?) Our Dutch colleague, Elly Krijnen, gave us the Jeopardy template, in addition to our USA HUG Trainer, Gale Touger, worked difficult to brand this lastly review of the HUG Your Baby concepts in addition to resources both fun in addition to instructive. 

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