Bathing the Baby - Concern, Empathy and Acquired Gestures (DVD)
Bathing the Baby - Concern, Empathy and Acquired Gestures (DVD)
A major innovation of the Pikler Approach in care giving is the way it treats care situations such as bathing a baby a principal meeting point between infant and carer. The adult creates an environment where the daily bath becomes a space for the infant to express their first competences and gradually become active partners at this time of relaxation and free movement.
Through detailed clips and snapshots of two infants and their caregivers at the Pikler Institute, professionals may learn the special choreography of bathing infants under 6 months old in the Piklerian way. The third part of the DVD serves as a tutorial of the exact movements caregivers employ to make sure infants feel safe and secure from being picked up from the crib to being undressed, bathed, towelled down, dressed and placed back in the crib again. Recommended mainly for professional caregivers but may be of interest to parents as well.