Wellbaby I (~ 6 weeks to 16 weeks): **Items Required - Yoga mat or the like to place child on

This 6-week class is designed to help families understand how to develop their interaction skills with their baby.  We do not focus specifically on age, rather where your child is at developmentally. Generally this group is most appropriate for babies that are starting to alert a little more, starting to smile, and starting to kick their legs and appropriate to when they are starting to roll and sustaining longer periods of alertness and interest in the world 

Focus areas of the class includes:

·       Importance of floor time play and its link to other developmental skills

·       Alternative positions to work on tummy time for those babies that may get frustrated on their belly

·       Appropriate toys for this age and how to utilize these within play and daily life

·       Building early language skills

·       Strategies for soothing

·       Development of your baby’s senses and how these link to learning and play

·       Screening for head preference or flattening of head

·       Includes aspects of infant massage by certified educator of infant massage

*Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, social-distancing and face masks are required

Wellbaby 2 (~4-7 months): **Items Required - Yoga mat or the like to place child on

This 6-week series is focused on continuing to meet your child’s ever changing skills. Things are now starting to get interesting! Your baby is becoming more mobile and noticing more about the world! This class is best suited towards babies that are starting to roll and nearing crawling.  We focus on your child's current skills and build upon them. 

·       Helping your child achieve independent sitting and transitions to sit and hands and knees.

·       Preparing your child to use hands for later functional play

·       Continued screening for head preference or flat head

·       Cooing to babbling and other early language skills

·       Appropriate toys to introduce and their impact on the developing sensory system and play

·       Understanding if your child is ready for first foods

·       Early fine motor skills for feeding

 *Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, social-distancing and face masks are required