Best Consumer Health Books of 2004

Itsy Bitsy Yoga: Poses To Help Your Baby Sleep Longer, Digest Better, and Grow Stronger SELECTED AS BEST CONSUMER Children's Health BOOK OF 2004!

GARABEDIAN, HELEN. Itsy Bitsy Yoga: Poses To Help Your Baby Sleep Longer, Digest Better, and Grow Stronger. Fireside: S. & S. 236p. illus. index. ISBN 0-7432-4355-2. pap. $16. With yoga increasing in popularity, it is small wonder that a creative facilitator has adapted it for babies. Garabedian, a certified yoga instructor and developmental movement educator, has developed a series of yoga postures that parents or caregivers can do with infants from newborns through toddlers; the photographs and instructions are intended to ensure safe practice. These activities also encourage parent-child bonding and relaxation and are seen as an improvement over more regimented exercise routines. A novel approach. (LJ 4/15/04)