wellbaby series
Playwell’s weekly Wellbaby Class Series are for caregivers and children to allow for caregivers to bond, feel empowered and gain insight into their child’s skills. They are designed to support a child at their current level of development and facilitate their continued growth. More specifically, activities are designed to help optimize a child’s sensory, cognitive, motor, language, social and emotional development through play. The focus is optimizing of each child’s ability. Playwell aims to create a supportive environment that allows caregivers to interact, observe and encourage their child in a small group setting. Caregivers will also learn new skills to support their child’s development with a focus on teachings that can be incorporated into everyday life. Lastly, Playwell aims to create a safe place for caregivers to share stressors of caring for a child in a supportive environment. Classes are led by experts in childhood development such as Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists and Developmental Therapists. Additionally, Playwell has a Lactation Consultant.
wellbaby light (4th trimester - Early weeks) $120
It’s a new life stage for everyone in the family! Baby was born and is home and learning how this world works outside the womb. Families are adjusting to the change in the size of the family, new routines, especially those middle-of-the-night ones! This 3-week class is designed to help families understand how to develop their interaction skills with their newborn during the 4th trimester. We do not focus specifically on age, rather where your child is at, developmentally.
FOCUS AREAS:
Learning to read your baby’s cues
Learning strategies for swaddling and soothing
Trialing wraps and carriers, as well as, understanding the importance of correct alignment
Introducing aspects of infant massage to understand baby’s response to touch
Trialing tummy time positions
Bonding and developmental play
Screening for head preference or flattening of head
Addressing question about bottle-feeding, breastfeeding, chest feeding, formulas and pumping
wellbaby 1 (~6 weeks to 16 weeks) $230
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:
Importance of floor time play and its link to other development skills
Alternative positions to work on tummy time for those babies that may get frustrated on their belly
Appropriate toys for age and how to utilize within play and daily lif
Building early language skill
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
wellbaby 2 (~4-7 months) $230
This 6-week series if 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.
FOCUS AREAS:
Helping your child achieve independent sitting and transitions from sit to 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