What Your Baby Wants You to Know: The Art and Science of Bonding with Your Child

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Parenting is something to be done with your baby and not to your baby. Based on Marie's own practice and the latest neuroscientific findings, as well as the latest psychoanalytic and attachment theories,The Book Your Baby Wants You to Read gives parents the tools to understand their baby's communications and suggests effective, practical and enjoyable strategies to enhance the parent-infant bonding experience. The more actively involved we are, right from the start, in our emotional relationship with our babies, by accepting them as a fully active participant in the parenting process, the more likely our dependent babies will grow into independent, well-balanced, successful adults.

The shift in perspective that Marie advocates 'will be like putting on a pair of magic glasses and suddenly being able to see the space between us and our babies/children, a space that is filled up with an incredibly rich traffic of emotions and feelings. We are going to learn to improve the quality of this traffic, and this will leave a life-long positive imprint in our babies' minds, brains and bodies.'

This is a book for every new parent who wants to understand their baby and build strong bonds from the moment the child is born.

Author Bio

Marie Derome (BA, MA, Mpsych psych, ACP) is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist who has been working with infants, children, young people and their families for over 10 years. She currently works at the Bridge Foundation in Bristol, a not-for-profit organisation offering psychotherapeutic treatment to children and their families. She is part of a multi-disciplinary team and offers sessions to self-referred patients, but also to patients whose therapeutic support has been commissioned by Social Services or the Adoption Support Fund.

Marie works with a large number of adopted and fostered children who have complex needs, often as a result of early extensive trauma and loss. She offers short and long term and intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy, as well as therapeutic parent work and dyadic therapeutic work. She also supervises other mental health therapists. Marie is also the lead of the Parent-Infant Psychotherapy service (PIP) which she initiated and set up. She has a special interest in working with parents and their infants who, for complex reasons, are struggling to form a healthy attachment and relationship.

Marie is originally from France. She is married to the chef and TV presenter Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall with whom she has four children.