Group Classes

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Infants & Caregivers

Baby Movement Class

Times:

Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30 pm

Locations:

Ready Set Grow 5433 NE 30th Ave. Portland, OR 97211

This class is about learning to support your baby in their process of learning to move. Caregivers are making choices all the time that influence a baby’s experience. How you pick them up, how you set them down, how you hold them and how you play with them are choices that can support their movement development. The touch and handling choices you make can offer your baby the opportunity to learn at their own pace and to explore all the movement skills within their capacity without asking them to do what is beyond them. Let us help you support your baby to meet the world with as much agency as they have available at each of their stages of development. 

Age range: newborn up until walking has become their primary mode of locomotion.

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FAQ about Babies! Class

  • Babies! sessions are by donation. You may donate:

    Our suggested donation is $20 per session. Please support us at whatever level you are able. Thank you!

  • Yes! If you’d like to observe Babies!, please review our guidelines for observers and book a space for observers. We limit the number of observers at each session.

  • Sessions are 60 minutes. You can arrive anytime in the first 15 minutes and leave as needed. First-timers are encouraged to arrive as close to the beginning of class as possible.

  • If you’ve signed up for a session and need to cancel, you can email babies@babiesproject.org to let us know.

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Adult Classes

Preparing for Caring for Doulas

Newborn Touch & Handling Skills

Free Workshop

Space is limited per each to 10 people and open to all professionals working with families and newborns.

Time Options:

  • Saturday, February 7, 2-3:30pm

  • Thursday, February 12, 10:30am-12pm

  • Tuesday, February 17, 4:30-6pm

Location: North Portland, OR

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One of the many things that new parents are learning is how to hold their baby (and pick them up, set them down, and hand them to someone else). We believe that a baby’s experience of being held and handled in these transitions has a huge impact on their physical and emotional development.

Baby-handling skills are teachable and, when shared with new caregivers, can help them feel more confident and comfortable about being with their baby. The more comfortable a caregiver is when handling a baby, the more safety and comfort the baby can experience. And this supports bonding between caregivers and babies.

Because doulas are in a special position to support parents bonding with their baby in their earliest days as a family, we’d like to support doulas by sharing an IDME (Infant Developmental Movement Education) approach to specific touch and handling skills.

This free 90 minute workshop will offer the basic principles of touch and handling from an IDME perspective, which focuses on supporting a baby’s experience of themselves and of the world from the perspective of their sensory and motor capacities at each stage of their development. We believe that caregivers are constantly making choices for their baby, and that those choices can support or accidentally inhibit a little one’s development.

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More info about this approach:

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