| (Pregnancy
to 12 months)
Course Outline - Courses run in 3 segments (4 session modules). Participants may begin at the beginning of any segment.
Part 1 Becoming a Mother
Week #1 - Emotional Realities of Mothering
Readings:
#1 Emotional Realities of Mothering - Diana Mandel; Barbara Burrows Parenting Magazine April 2003 P 8 http://www.barbaraburrows.com/BBP%20Magazine/BBP%202003%202%20April.pdf
#2 The Hidden Emotional Lives of Parents Part 1 - Barbara Burrows Parenting Magazine Oct 2001 - P 19 http://www.barbaraburrows.com/Magazines.html
#3 The experience of having a baby: a developmental view -
Dana Birksted-Breen - Free Associations -
Week #2 - Emotional Realities of Mothering con't
Readings:
#1 Tips for Babies and Mom - Barbara Burrows Parenting Magazine - Oct 2001 - P 8 http://www.barbaraburrows.com/Magazines.html
#2 I Hate Breastfeeding - Globe and Mail - Facts and Arguments - Linda Tobias -July 28, 2009 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/i-despise-breastfeeding/article1232706/
#3 Motherlove - Andrea J. Bachanan - Barbara Burrows Parenting Magazine - Aug 2004 P. 8
Week #3 - Primary Maternal Preoccupation - A mother's unique attunement and its importance.
Week #4 - Marital Adjustment - New Babies create an enormous need for adjustment in a family.
Part 2 - Making the Connection
Week #5 - Becoming a Parent...
"You face unnecessary troubles in your relationships and parenting if you deny the power of
the unconscious, which is like saying, "I'm just going to pretend that tornado isn't coming straight towards
me. I'm just going to sit on my porch and read about weather science." (Dr. Jean Hantman)
Most of us find ALL earlier neurotic difficulties reappear during a pregnancy - for both men and women. Explore parenting as a developmental stage - some of us with severe neurotic symptoms manage very well as parents and others who expected to do well flounder. This session looks at what needs to get reworked and how this happens to allow positive growth for both parents in this new phase of development.
Readings:
#1 Parenthood as a Developmental Stage - "On Having and Being a Mother" Erna Furman International Universities Press
#2 Ghosts in the Nursery - Selma Frieberg
Week #6 - Attachments - how does it happen.
Readings:
#1 The Face and facade - the mother's face as the baby's mirror. Ken Wright Parent Infant Dynamics P 5
Week #7 - Attachments - its different forms and how we replay attachments from the past.
Readings:
Its a Wise Father who Knows - http://www.newsweek.com/1997/02/28/it-s-a-wise-father-who-knows.html
Week #8 - Separation - how does this affect the developing baby and mother?
Part 3 - The Baby - Infant Observation
Week #9 - Understanding baby communication.
Week #10 - Young twins having a very animated conversation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJC0FfqRkm4
Baby laughing – ripping paper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP4abiHdQpc
Baby laughing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HttF5HVYtlQ
Baby laughing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USzlvNtJ8_o&feature=related
Infant in Bumbo – Daddy singing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K9-vjkeloY&feature=related
Week #11
Week #12
Bibliography
1 Myth of the Perfect Mother - Jane Swigart
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