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The Secrets Babies Hold: A Brain-Body Approach from Birth to Walking

The Secrets Babies Hold: A Brain-Body Approach from Birth to Walking - Paperback

by Leigh Scott
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Availability:In StockContributor:Leigh Scott, Carolyn PalmerTheme:Topical/FamilyPublish date:6/23/2026Pages:118
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Epigraph PublishingISBN-13:9781966293477ISBN-10:196629347XUPC:9781966293477Book Category:Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Life Stages, Education, ParentingBook Topic:Infants & ToddlersSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.25 inchesWeight:0.145Product ID:SCP7BP25JR

The Secrets Babies Hold invites parents into a revolutionary way of understanding their baby's first year - not as a checklist of milestones to achieve, but as a rich, sensory journey of brain-body development that unfolds through movement, touch, and connection. Drawing on cutting-edge social neuroscience and somatic education, the book teaches parents how to read their baby's subtle cues, support natural movement, and regulate their own nervous systems in the process.

What You Will Learn from Your Baby

  • How to read your baby's subtle non-verbal cues with greater confidence and calm
  • Specific types of touch that activate a baby's brain for learning and connection
  • How sounds and singing enhance early language learning through rhythm and cadence
  • How to support natural movement by recognizing and encouraging transitions from one movement to the next
  • Why coming to your senses alongside your baby is the foundation of emotional regulation - for both of you
  • How secure attachment develops through everyday moments of movement, play, and attuned presence
  • Why tummy time starts on a baby's back - and how to make it comfortable and natural from the very first weeks
  • How face-to-face interaction shapes your baby's social brain, early language, and emotional life
  • How to use your own breath, voice, and body awareness to regulate your nervous system and co-regulate your baby's
  • Why parent self-care is not optional - it is the foundation of everything your baby needs most

Features 40 videos accessed by QR codes demonstrating the topic being discussed on that page. Also includes 37 black and white photos.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Epigraph PublishingISBN-13:9781966293477ISBN-10:196629347XUPC:9781966293477Book Category:Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Life Stages, Education, ParentingBook Topic:Infants & ToddlersSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.25 inchesWeight:0.145Product ID:SCP7BP25JR
Palmer, Carolyn: - Leigh Scott brings more than three decades of somatic expertise to these pages, including twenty-five years as a licensed Shiatsu therapist, a four-year Feldenkrais professional training, and advanced certification in a specialized infant development approach at the heart of this book. As a postpartum doula, she spent countless hours holding and observing hundreds of babies, learning firsthand from the intelligence of the infant nervous system. Her work is further grounded in the attachment and interpersonal neurobiology research of Dr. Dan Siegel, and her own hard-won experience as a parent. She offers in-person and zoom private sessions, as well as weekly baby groups in the Hudson Valley, New York.
Publisher: Epigraph Publishing

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Leigh Scott, Carolyn Palmer

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Leigh Scott

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