Bonding With Your Baby

If you are a new Mom, you can nuture yourself and your new baby through yoga. Yoga can help you balance and replenish the body, while connecting you and baby on both the physical and emotional level.

If you did prenatal yoga, you are already familar with yoga’s many benefits.  But if you’re a new Mom and new to yoga as well, you may want to check out special yoga classes that focus on yoga postures poses that parents can do with their babies.
 
Yoga classes for moms and new babies usually start at the age six weeks to crawling. In most mom and baby yoga classes, moms place a baby blanket over the yoga mat, and lay the baby on top for the duration of the class.

Specifically designed to help you bond with your baby, these classes can help to create and deepen the spiritual connection and bond between you.

There are even yoga poses just for babies, which can help you and you little one create “breath awareness”, bringing a level of deep relaxation to you and your baby.

Using these teqniques, yoga can help your baby may sleep better and longer, aid in digestion and even help to relieve colic. It’s beleived that practicing Yoga with your baby assists in the development of motor skills and emotional intelligence,

Through touch, sight and sound, your baby will gain a send of trust and security. During a bonding class, you are free to pick up your baby and feed her, rock her, or stop to change a diaper or even play.

A regular yofa practice that creates routine will also help to regulate baby’s emotions.  This helps to reduce stress and lower anxiety. When babies are happy, moms are happy!