The Metabolic Heart Of A Newborn: Clinical Approaches For Babies In Biodynamic Practice

This course will present a new paradigm for working with babies and infants. We will explore physiological events taking place in the infant when transitioning from aquatic breathing to air breathing before, during and after birth. New palpation skills will orient the practitioner to stabilizing cardio-pulmonary respiration in newborn babies. Several cardiovascular protocols will be taught and practiced to stabilize the infant’s cardiovascular system and brain. This includes a specific protocol that includes the brachial, renal, carotid and femoral arteries. During the workshop we intend to have an infant and mother in class for a demonstration of learning. Specific skills will be taught to evaluate the stress level of an infant and to help repair the infant-caregiver relationship, if necessary through specific communication skills. We will learn a sequence of evaluation and palpation skills for an infant based on balancing the cardiovascular and nervous systems, before considering the membrane and osseous systems of the baby.

Participants will:

• Learn skills to support the respiratory, gut and cardiovascular systems of infants and caregivers.  Advance your understanding of how the infant heart develops.
• Apply communication skills for optimal bonding with mom and her baby.
• Learn specific skills to support a postpartum mom.