Hug Your Babe Returns To Italy (Part 1)

Benedetta Costa (PT too Certified HUG Teacher) had joined us lastly twelvemonth at the HUG Your Baby Train the Trainer inwards Durham, NC, too so imagine our please when Jim too I met Benedetta at the Genoa Nervi develop station this calendar week to convey the first, amount HUG Your Baby preparation to Italy. Though Benedetta too I select had many Skype conferences over the yesteryear vi months, nosotros were nevertheless busy amongst last-minute translating, slide production, schedule creation, too alignment of our HUG content, didactics styles, too workshop goals. It proved to live a glorious collaboration too I can’t hold back until tomorrow!

Benedetta’s “Center Papillon” was a welcoming, spacious too well-equipped house to host this two-day HUG Your Baby workshop. Twenty enthusiastic colleagues (including infant massage educators, lactation consultants, doulas, physicians, nurses, spoken communication therapists, too psychologists) were eager participants from the 2d nosotros opened the doors. I spoke English linguistic communication which Benedetta translated. When Bendetta shared her expertise too stories, her sister, Berni translated her words too the participants’ responses into my left ear. We looked similar nosotros had done this for years! 

Italian colleagues were intrigued yesteryear many of the same HUG items that inspire our American colleagues: the attachment practice is instructive; the Zone too SOS linguistic communication is slow to understand; timely information on managing crying/sleep issues is critical; parents volition live delighted to run into the amazing abilities of their newborn; too finally, “The Roadmap” makes goodness sense!

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Every fourth dimension I laid out a workshop I wonder “Will this grouping select grip of the HUG Your Baby spirit?” Clearly, our Italian colleagues were engaged too inspired yesteryear The HUG stories, the interactive activities, too The HUG DVD. We had fun ane time once again sharing the developmental describe “pyramid” activeness to aid participants run into how parents’ agreement too back upwards of this developmental procedure tin ship away lift a baby’s mightiness to interact amongst her world. 

The circle ball game was a fun agency to review what nosotros had learned the hateful solar daytime earlier too the newly created Italian HUG peril game was a big hit. 

More to come. . .