Baby & You Classes

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Baby and You classes are free for Parents Centre members. If you're not a member, enrolment in our Baby and You Membership Package is $110 and includes the following:
  • One year Parents Centre membership
  • One year subscription to Kiwi Parent magazine
  • Four Baby and You classes - All about you (focusing on mum), infant feeding, sleep and settling, child development and  baby massage. See the full description below.

When are our next courses?

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Course Dates 
BY1907 - 3rd July - 24th July 2019
BY1908 - 31st July - 21st Aug 2019
BY1909 - 28th Aug - 18th Sept 2019
BY1910 - 25th Sept - 15th Oct 2019
BY1911 - 23rd Oct - 13th Nov 2019
BY1912 - 20th Nov - 11th Dec 2019
All courses are held on Wednesdays from 10am to 11:30am at Sunnynook Community Centre on the corner of Sunnynook Road and Sycamore Drive.

All About You

Session Objectives:
  • Focusing on yourself.
  • How to make the postnatal period less stressful and more enjoyable.
  • The opportunity to speak and be heard and be supported.
Session Contents:
  • ​The changes since the birth of your baby.
  • Self care
  • Tips on dealing with visitors, families and other issues during the postnatal period.
  • Looking briefly at traditional cultures and how they care for new mothers.

Feeding + Sleep + Settling

Session Objectives:
  • Increase confidence about breast feeding.
  • Provide the knowledge that will allow mothers to cope in certain situations
  • Parents will be able to identify problems they are currently having or may have, and how to deal with those issues also.
  • Provide information on the services offered by Plunket.
Session Contents:   ​
  • Breast care
  • Feeding frenzies and growth spurts.
  • Expressing
  • Storage & Sterilisation
  • Weaning basics and options available
  • Sleeping & settling
  • Colic   
  • The 4-8pm unsettled period
  • Rest & relaxation (self care) for mother & Baby
  • General mother craft skills
  • Plunket services – nurse, family centre
  • When to go to the doctor and when to go to Plunket.

Child Development

Session Objective:  
    • Describe the physical, language, social & emotional stages of your child from 0-6 months.
Session Contents:
  • Sensory development
  • Play
  • Age appropriate toys
  • Baby safety needs.
 

Touch (Baby Massage)

Session Objective:
    • A fun relaxing session on infant massage and the benefits for parents and their babies.
Session Contents: 
    • The importance of touch
    • Massage demonstration
    • Practical points