At One Month

At Three Months

This research found the MBU program to be a preventative healthcare intervention that enables mothers to be more competent caregivers—and their infants to be healthier—in a broad spectrum of health-related areas.

The program's value is its content—the eight videos and accompanying books contain vital guidance and information covering each stage of an infant's first year.

Click here for the complete contents of the first video.

Here's a sampling of topics included in the entire program:

Understanding your baby
• The six states of infant awareness
• Temperament and personality
• Avoiding over-stimulation
• Observing changes in your baby

Caring for your baby
• The developing relationship
• Emotional attunement and bonding
• Feeding and nurturing
• Feeding schedules
• Breast-feeding and bottle-feeding
• Introducing other foods

Recognizing and fostering the baby's capabilities
• Adaptive reflexes and inborn responses
• Seeing and hearing
• Motor development
• Physical growth
• Mental abilities: thinking and understanding
• Alertness and recognition
• Verbal ability and understanding

Crying and discomfort
• Seven reasons why babies cry
• Types of cries
• Colic and intense crying
• Comforting and soothing your baby
• Seven ways to calm a baby
• How to communicate with your crying baby

Sleeping
• Methods of inducing sleep
• Helping the baby learn to sleep
• Sleep positions
• Organizing a sleep schedule
• Changes in sleep patterns

Interacting, playing, and relating
• Communicating with your baby
• Entertaining the baby
• Interactive play
• Security and exploration
• The baby's social behavior
• Responses to the baby's behavior

Parents and family
• Motherhood and fatherhood
• The parent/baby relationship
• Parental needs and growth
• Living as a family
• Siblings: older siblings and shared attention
• Organizing family life
• Work and childcare
• Exploring daycare
• Caregivers: babysitters and family members

At Ten Months

At One Year