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

by Marie Derome

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 will give parents the tools to understand their baby's communications and it will also suggest 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.

401 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 13, 2025

Reviews

[Courtney Schomaker · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5 for me - there were some really great nuggets of emotional wisdom but I didn’t always love the way they were presented (one example being “mind-milk”). It felt a little cheesy, but I did get some things out of it

[Jeremy Skeet · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wish this was around when my children were babies