Yogababy : Exercises to Help You Bond With Your Baby Physically, Emotionally and Spiritually [Paperback]

DeAnsin Goodson Parker Ph.D. (Author), DeAnsin Goodson Parker (Author), Karen W. Bressler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 4, 2000

A Whole New Way to Bond with Your Baby!

As a new parent, you are probably anxious about bonding with your baby. In Yoga Baby, you'll find a stress-free way to begin a healthy lifelong relationship between the two of you. Yoga BabyTM methods range from deep relaxation massage to postures enhancing specific developmental stages for your baby. Exercises are designed for newborns through two-year-olds to do with their mothers and caregivers, and they do not require previous yoga experience. While you give your baby a head start in sound emotional and physical learning, you and your baby will lay a solid foundation for a lifetime of learning and bonding together.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

On the heels of several works on baby massage, Yoga Baby takes parents to the next step in baby bonding. Parker, a licensed child psychologist and certified yoga instructor, here outlines yoga positions that will benefit newborns to toddlers, revealing the results of her work with babies and their parents at New York's Goodson Parker Wellness Center. In eight chapters, she covers each body center for the well-being of the child and the child-parent bond. For each center, Goodson describes postures for mothers and babies, supplemented by a question-and-answer section. Focusing on therapeutic touch and spirituality, this work goes beyond the poses for preschool- and elementary-aged children as covered in Thia Luby's Children's Book of Yoga (Clear Light, 1998) and the video YogaKids (Dancing Feet Productions, 1996). Yoga Baby is complementary to the video Baby & Mom Post-Natal Yoga (PPI Entertainment Group, 1998). Recommended for public libraries.
-Lisa Williams, Moline P.L., IL
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

DeAnsin Goodson Parker, author of "Yoga Baby: Exercises to Help You Bond With Your Baby Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually," takes a much sterner approach. Parker addresses her book to new mothers, to help them relax and bond with their babies better through yoga (fathers and "other caretakers" are briefly addressed but never emphasized). New mothers are indeed vulnerable to feeling that we might do something wrong and permanently scar our babies. We turn to yoga to provide us, among other things, with brief spells of self-acceptance and relief from anxiety.

"Yoga Baby" provides neither. Full of odd, judgmental directives, the book even includes a brief section, "Clean Up Your Act," which implores the mother to immediately clean the yoga space if baby spits up or "spoils the area" so baby will become accustomed to "a very hygienic environment." Mothers are told to "focus totally on your baby for the entire session." What kind of yoga is this? What if baby falls asleep peacefully on the blanket beside you? Should you wake her so you can bond more intensely?

"Yoga Baby," in short, lays out a specific program that is not for everyone. If you don't fall in line, Parker can make you feel very guilty. (Beliefnet, May 2000) -- From Beliefnet

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Broadway; 1 edition (April 4, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0767904052
• ISBN-13: 978-0767904056
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.5 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #504,483 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #81 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Exercise & Fitness > Pregnancy

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As a Mother, Certified Yoga Instructor, and RN......, November 3, 2000

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Janine Petrick-Sullivan, RN BSN (Lake Tahoe, Nevada USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yogababy : Exercises to Help You Bond With Your Baby Physically, Emotionally and Spiritually (Paperback)

As a Mother, Certified Yoga Instructor and Registered Nurse on the West coast, I found myself wishing that "YogaBabyTM", by DeAnisin Goodson Parker was written back when my son was a young baby! This is exciting information as Parker has taken the ancient practice of yoga and has combined it with her knowledge and training in child development and psychology, both on the physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. In reading her book, I feel that her program not only serves to bond the parent or caregiver with the baby, but also facilitates the birth of the parent into Parenthood. I teach prenatal, "Mommy and Me", and postnatal yoga. I have had very positive feedback by my students in implementing some of Parker's techniques in my postnatal class...mostly from the babies! They become very serene, with a quiet alertness. It is very obvious they enjoy the process! This book is also very clear and easy to follow. I strongly recommend it to all my students. One does not have to be an experienced yoga practitioner or parent to understand and reep the benefits from this book. I look forward to attending a YogaBabyTM teacher training when it becomes available. I can't say enough about this wonderful book!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars yogababy, April 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Yogababy : Exercises to Help You Bond With Your Baby Physically, Emotionally and Spiritually (Paperback)

finally! a mutually involved play with my infant that's really good for my back and hips.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Time consuming, March 26, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Yogababy : Exercises to Help You Bond With Your Baby Physically, Emotionally and Spiritually (Paperback)

If you just had a baby you obviously want the best for your new one. So babyyoga is one of the things you try. And it does work. But not with this book. You will never actually get started with babyyoga as this book is too difficult to handle for a beginner. There are no pictures of the actual moves so you have to read the whole thing. And tell me, which mother has extra time on their hands to read a yogabook from cover to cover?