What every new parent should know: Diana Eidelman at TEDxBGU
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Many new parents, especially career-oriented individuals, struggle with adjusting to parenthood due to various factors like lack of experience, conflicting lifestyles, and fear of parenting, as highlighted by the speaker. To aid new parents in dealing with the challenges of parenting, the speaker introduced an acronym called "the gift," which stands for getting moving, inhaling and exhaling, feeding, and touching the baby to foster love and security.
Insights
- New parents, particularly those transitioning from career-oriented lives, often struggle with the adjustment to parenthood due to factors like inexperience with infants, conflicting lifestyles, fear of parenting, and the absence of tangible accomplishments in caregiving.
- The speaker advocates for self-care and emotional regulation for parents dealing with crying babies, introducing the acronym "the gift" which emphasizes activities like movement, deep breathing, feeding, and physical touch to promote parental well-being and bonding with the child.
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Recent questions
What challenges do new parents face?
Adjusting to parenthood, lack of experience, conflicting lifestyles, fear of parenting, absence of measurable achievements.
How can new parents support themselves?
By focusing on oneself, using the acronym "the gift".
What prompted the speaker to support new parents?
Having a high-need baby and observing struggles of new parents.
What did the speaker emphasize for new parents?
Focusing on oneself when dealing with a crying baby.
What did the speaker discover about new parents?
Many face challenges adjusting to parenthood in developed countries.
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Summary
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Supporting New Parents Through "The Gift" Approach
- The speaker, a former career woman, had her first child who turned out to be a high-need baby, very alert and sensitive to changes in his environment.
- Despite initial struggles, the child grew up to be calm and relaxed, prompting the speaker to delve into supporting new parents through therapy and group facilitation.
- The speaker discovered that many new parents, especially career-oriented individuals, faced challenges adjusting to parenthood in developed countries.
- Reasons for this difficulty included lack of experience with babies, conflicting lifestyles, fear of parenting, and the absence of measurable achievements in caregiving.
- The speaker emphasized the importance of focusing on oneself as a parent when dealing with a crying baby, introducing an acronym called "the gift" to aid new parents.
- The acronym "the gift" stands for getting moving, inhaling and exhaling to calm oneself, feeding the baby and oneself, and touching the baby to foster a sense of love and security.
