Come and see us at the Bellies to Babies event, Croatian Cultural Centre: 3250 Commercial Drive.

Bellies to Babies 2012

Class schedules through Autumn 2012 are now posted.

See the links on the left!

The Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study is a research study involving 5,000 families from across Canada. The CHILD Study observes children from birth to five years old in their everyday environment. It looks at everything from the air we breathe and the food we eat, to our genetic makeup and where we live. It is completely safe for you and your baby to participate. With your help, the CHILD Study can help unlock some of the answers to questions about how the environment affects children’s overall health and development. Through this research, we hope to improve the future health of children.

For more information, please visit the The Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study website at www.canadianchildstudy.ca.

If you are interested in participating in a research study called the Infant Sounds Study (Couples), The Department of Development Neuroscience and Child Health at BC Women’s and Children’s Hospital and the pediatrics department at UBC would like to hear from you.

Visit the Mother Infant Wellness Lab at http://www.motherinfantwellness.ca/research-infant-sounds.html for more information.

The purpose of this study is to find out if providing information on the typical features of infant crying can reduce frustration and other distressing thoughts and feelings in first-time parents when they hear an infant crying. This will be accomplished by having all participants listen to an audio recording of an infant crying while continuously rating their level of frustration. Following this, we will ask our participants to complete a final questionnaire in which we ask about a range of emotional responses they may have had to the tape recorded sounds as well as strategies they think would help to sooth a crying infant or to help them cope with infant crying. We are also asking them about any unwanted thoughts of harm, related to the infant, that they may have experienced while listening to the tape recorded sounds.

At the conclusion of the study participants are provided with a $5 Starbucks gift card in appreciation of their time as well as parent educational materials about infant crying (The Period of PURPLE Crying DVD). We hope that this study will help us to understand maternal responses to infant crying and allow us to better help new mothers as they cope with infant crying.

The Mother-Infant Wellness Lab (Island Medical Program, University of British Columbia) is conducting a study of fear of childbirth to assess pregnant women’s concerns and anxieties around giving birth.

This research has been approved by the University of British Columbia’s Behavioural Research Ethics Board. If you are interested in participating, please contact the survey at www.motherinfantwellness.ca.

We now have copies of Dr Mia Kalef’s new book for sale at $25 each when you register for one of our classes. Here’s a summary from her website:

This fascinating collection of scientific data, case studies and easy-to-implement therapeutic tools helps bring awareness to how your health is influenced by the period between the time you were conceived and your birth. It also shows how cultures the world-over seem to be playing out experiences learned during these early times. This is a great tool for your own introspection or can be used to assist you when interacting with your own clients, families or patients.

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