LE BLOG DE VIMALA MC LURE

BOUNCING TO MUSIC CAN HELP BABIES BOND, BECOME MORE COOPERATIVE

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 20:21:57 +0000

According to a study published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, babies have some important lessons to share about bonding and the power of music.The findings show that music has important social effects on infants—as long as the little ones and their parents aren’t just listening passively, said Laura Cirelli, the study’s lead author and a researcher ...

VIMALA’S SPEECH AT THE 2018 GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR IAIM

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:17:53 +0000

I believe in magic. What some people call “coincidence” is often so deep, even life-changing, that I call it magic. The universe abounds with magic, and if you think about it, your life is bookmarked by magic moments. I believe that I was born with a strong intuition—a capacity for magic—and it has guided me throughout my life. I was ...

GENTLY STROKING BABIES BEFORE MEDICAL PROCEDURES CAN REDUCE PAIN

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:21:50 +0000

Researchers found that gently stroking a baby seems to reduce activity in the infant brain associated with painful experiences. Their results, appearing in the journal Current Biology, suggest that stroking an infant at a certain speed—of approximately 3 centimeters per second—can provide effective pain relief before clinically necessary medical procedures. “Parents intuitively stroke their babies at this optimal velocity,” says ...

BABIES FEEL PAIN LIKE ADULTS

Thu, 27 Dec 2018 20:55:28 +0000

Babies’ brains ‘light up’ in a very similar way to adults when exposed to the same painful stimulus, a pioneering Oxford University brain scanning study has discovered. It suggests that babies experience pain much like adults. The study looked at 10 healthy infants aged between one and six days old and 10 healthy adults aged 23-36 years. Infants were recruited ...

INFANTS WHO RESEMBLE THEIR FATHER AT BIRTH FOUND TO BE HEALTHIER ONE YEAR LATER

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 23:15:37 +0000

Infants who resemble their father at birth are more likely to spend time together with their father and, in turn, be healthier when they reach their first birthday, according to new research co-conducted by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York. “Fathers are important in raising a child, and it manifests itself in the health of the child,” ...

VIMALA GOES TO SPAIN Part 2—CONFERENCE/GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:03:34 +0000

I boarded a bus with all the Trainers to go to the GA in Madrid city. It was held at a huge modern hotel and convention center. Mia and friends ushered me in, and we were told that we couldn’t get a room until around 4 hours later. Mia told the man who was serving us, “But Vimala is the ...

VIMALA GOES TO SPAIN Part 1—TRAINER’S MEETING

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 01:59:15 +0000

This year, fortunately, I was able to attend the IAIM Trainer’s Meeting, Educational Conference, and General Assembly in and near Madrid, Spain. Packing is a week-long ordeal. I lay my cases out and gradually fill them, every day packing things and taking things out until I have the perfect and legal balance of stuff I will need. I pack probably ...

INFANTS CAPABLE OF COMPLEX BABBLE MAY GROW INTO STRONGER READERS

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:33:12 +0000

Some skills needed for literacy may be developed in infancy Infants’ early speech production may predict their later literacy, according to a study published October 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Kelly Farquharson from Florida State University and colleagues. Children with difficulties in identifying letters are more likely to develop reading impairments, but such difficulties cannot be uncovered ...

HOW BABIES’ BRAIN DEVELOPMENT IS SHAPED BY TOUCH

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 15:05:39 +0000

For newborns, skin-to-skin contact with parents and caregivers helps shape how their brains respond to touch, a sense necessary for social and emotional connections. A lot of previous research has linked skin-to-skin touch with developmental benefits for both premature and full-term babies, ranging from improved growth and sleep to better motor development. Research has also tied breastfeeding and other forms ...

WHO’S BETTER AT BABY TALK, MOM OR DAD?

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 21:13:39 +0000

The latest research shows that moms and dads use baby talk in different ways, and that boys and girls respond to them differently. In a study published in the online edition of Pediatrics, researchers looked at the language interactions between 33 late preterm and term infants and their parents by capturing 3,000 hours of recordings. Taking advantage of a small ...

RESEARCH FINDS (AGAIN!) INFANTS SENSITIVE TO PLEASANT TOUCH

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 18:23:54 +0000

Cognitive neuroscientist Merle Fairhurst and colleagues of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, knew that previous studies with adults show that a specific type of touch receptor is activated in response to a particular stroking velocity, leading to the sensation of “pleasant” touch. They hypothesized that this type of response might emerge as ...

BABIES DEPENDENT ON OPIOIDS NEED TOUCH, NOT TECH

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:05:37 +0000

A physician in Kansas has worked for years to tackle infant mortality. She often treats newborns in a high-tech Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with intricate things whirring and beeping. That, she says, is not the place for a baby like Lili. Lili’s mom, Victoria, used heroin for the first two trimesters of her pregnancy, and she despised herself for ...