OUR MISSION AND VISION
Baby Parent Steps empowers and equips new parents with innovative, scientifically backed Brain-Body-Bonding practices that instill early parental confidence and build skills to foster the baby’s natural development, establishing a well-balanced foundation for life.
We redefine traditional parenting with a humanistic approach, focusing on conscious, respectful, warm human experiences during the pivotal first year of life and beyond. This approach positively impacts the early parental space in our modern, cognitive, and tech-driven world and is the beginning of a change in societal views on babies.
Our inspiring program provides interactive sessions that unlock the baby’s innate potential and enrich the essential aspects of the baby’s healthy growth. Through practical live demonstrations, we open up opportunities to promote the vital parent-child bond.
We firmly believe nurturing powerful parent-infant relationships lays the groundwork for a community that shapes future generations of resilient, thriving humans poised for a joyous lifetime.
WHAT NEW PARENTS GAIN WITH BABY PARENT STEPS?
BEFORE
- Confused about how to best help your baby? Anxious about making mistakes?
- Overwhelmed by conflicting advice on connecting and playing with babies? Afraid about your baby not bonding with you?
- Uncertain about how babies develop?
- Stuck trying to figure out what to do next?
FROM PANIC TO PEACE
YOU ARE IN CONTROL
AFTER
- Parental Confidence through trusted and demonstrated strategies on respectfully supporting babies during daily developmental changes.
- Certainty in applying evidence-based, effective, engaging, and bond-strengthening activities, helping you confidently assist babies’ natural development.
- Clarity about the 15 sensory-motor stages during the first year and the impact of each rapid transformation, the fastest in human growth.
- Relief in finding that Brain-Body-Bonding activity guidance will help you lay a strong foundation in early life.
My passion is your joy and success.
Learn more about PEKiP®
BPS Class Benefits for Parents & Caregivers
With Baby Parent Steps, You Can …
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Gain clarity on when, where, and how to begin using Brain-Body-Bonding* activities to support your newborn’s natural development and maximize their potential. Eye Opening.
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Understand how a baby develops; learn facts – not myths- and research-based practices to help you and your baby grow healthy, active, and engaged. Empowering.
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Experience and observe demonstrated high-quality, age-appropriate, sensory-motor activities that encourage baby’s movements and play-based learning; movement skills are the best predictor of higher learning skills that have been shown to improve children’s focus, attention, and concentration. Invaluable for you. Brain shaping for your baby.
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Practice over 100 research-based developmental supportive and effective PEKiP® activities during our sessions. Trusted sources.
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Develop increased awareness of your baby’s needs and skills. New Perspectives.
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Receive guidance, one-on-one attention, and feedback. Personalized Support.
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Apply and successfully transfer techniques and best strategies practiced in class into your daily life with an infant without spending a dime on toys. Everyone can do it.
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Watch your baby surprise you with their capabilities, offering minimal help and maximizing the baby’s engaged movements. Uplifting.
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Increase your early parental confidence, knowing you both benefit together from the start. As your baby grows, you grow as a parent as well. Win-Win-Situation.
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Enhance bonding through shared and focused quality time. Secure Attachment.
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Connect with like-minded parents of similar-age babies. New Friendships.
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Feel joyous and happy, building a solid Brain-Body-Bonding foundation for a lifespan, deepen your bond, and create time for playful activities designed to bring you and your precious baby closer together. Life-Changing.
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Relax. No more guessing and spending hours- you don’t have- searching for answers to help your baby best. In 2015, Baby Parent Steps introduced the high-quality, educational, research-based PEKiP® program for the baby’s first year of life to US families to support parents and caregivers in building the newborn’s critical and essential foundation during the fastest human growth and development with confidence and joy. We can help you and your baby.
Join Baby Parent Steps
for your once-in-a-lifetime journey!
We are here to help you build your baby’s essential foundation with confidence and joy.
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BPS Class Benefits for Your Baby
With Baby Parent Steps, Your Baby Can …
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Experience Brain-Body-Bonding activities and playful movement sequences built upon each other to support your child’s natural development.
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Gain a better sense of body awareness through clothing-free activities.
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Feel respected and engaged throughout all applied techniques and activities.
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Receive over 100 research-based PEKiP® activities and Baby Parent Steps play invitations designed specifically for every developmental stage from 0 to 18 months.
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Experience opportunities to develop the sensory system, integrating all eight senses.
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Master newly found essential skills and become more fluent in their movements through situation-oriented play.
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Reach foundational milestones, step-by-step through guided exploration.
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Walk the path of self-mastery by being actively engaged in activities. You will learn and feel the difference when your baby is passively versus actively involved in activities, starting at newborn age.
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Increase confidence in their abilities and be courageous – if parents allow it.
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Gain incredible emotional regulation skills. It is a developing process that takes time with repetitive positive responses.
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Develop self-confidence, resilience, and independence.
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Connect with similar-age babies and socialize early on.
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Bond and deepen trust to build that necessary secure attachment with you, the parent, adoptive parent, partner, grandparent, or present caregiver.
Join Baby Parent Steps
for your once-in-a-lifetime journey!
We are here to help you build your baby’s essential foundation with confidence and joy.
Copyright© 2015-2025 Baby Parent Steps | All Rights Reserved.
Facts about your baby that no one will tell you. Did you know?
Babies are born intelligent
Newborn brains have around 100 billion neurons waiting to be sparked and connected right after birth, particularly during the first crucial 12 months. Pathways between neurons are formed through interactions, stimulations, and activities, including loving touch, attention, engagement, and movement. Initiated by the parent and self-initiated by the infant, these actions lead to solidified neural connections with repetitions. The significance of these early experiences cannot be overstated, as they lay the foundation for all future cognitive and emotional development, behavior, and health.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5063692
https://developingchild.harvard.edu/key-concept/brain-architecture/
Babies cannot survive without being touched
Infants are programmed to sense a warm, loving human connection through touch. This foundational sense is vital for every baby. By reframing their perspective, parents can transform routine baby care into mindful opportunities fostering engaged care, promoting skin-to-skin connection paired with a nurturing tone of voice, and incorporating gentle massage time.
https://ideas.ted.com/we-are-made-to-be-touched-so-what-happens-when-we-arent/
Humans have eight senses
You may know that humans have five senses: taste, smell, sight, hearing, and touch. You’ve probably heard someone saying, “Use your seventh sense!”. The fact behind this remark is that EIGHT senses make up our sensory system, not just five. Babies absorb information through all of them. Any instability in their foundational senses during the first year of life can impact subsequent developmental milestones, similar to building a house from the basement upward. All milestones are interconnected, like constructing each home floor before reaching the roof; the roof represents academic learning. A stable foundation and integrated sensory system in infancy pave the way for seamless learning. Enroll to learn more about how babies learn. Class Registration
Abbreviation of the eight senses
T = Tactile/Touch
G = Gustatory/Taste
A = Auditory/Hearing
I = Interoception/Internal Sensation
P = Proprioception/Body Awareness
Ve = Vestibular/Balance
O = Olfactory/Smell
Vi = Vision/Sight
Babies have sensitive periods of growth
Also known as “windows of opportunity,” these critical periods mark specific developmental milestones during the baby’s first year. Research indicates that neurons related to vision exhibit peak activity, sending messages back and forth most rapidly between 2-4 months, emphasizing the significance of this period for visual development. Parents can learn how to enhance their baby’s vision through age-appropriate activities tailored to support optimal growth. Join our classes here: Class Registration
Infants are born with more bones than adults
Most literature states newborns have about 300 bones, some say 270 bones, including six soft spots known as fontanelles. As the child grows, these soft and flexible spots gradually fuse over time, primarily in the skull and the growth plates of long bones. The initial flexibility in a baby’s elastic tissue, called cartilage, transforms into a bony structure, like in joins, ribs, and the spine, and the number of bones decreases. By adulthood, babies have between 206 and 213 bones. It’s essential to recognize this development and refrain from rushing babies through milestones such as crawling and sitting before they establish them by themselves. Allowing infants to progress through these stages naturally supports the formation of a healthy skeleton, strong muscles, and natural movement patterns. Being mindful of these changes is important for overall well-being.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK542197/
Bonding is not the same as attachment
Although closely related, these two processes are often mistakenly used interchangeably. Bonding serves as the precursor of attachment, with the parent initiating it towards their child through consistent responses with love and attention, starting before the child is born. Postnatally, the foundation for attachment is laid as parents respond promptly, sensitively, attuned, and as accurately as possible to the baby’s signals. Fine-tuned responsiveness seems to be the key to securely attached children. Attachment is characterized by specific behaviors in children, such as seeking closeness towards the attachment figure when upset or threatened*. Understanding the nuances between bonding and attachment is essential for parents to nurture a strong and healthy connection with their children from the beginning. (*John Bowlby, Father of the Attachment Theory, 1969).
The Power of Connection
BRAIN-BODY-BONDING
Baby Parent Steps coined the term Brain-Body-Bonding to emphasize three essential aspects of the transformative experience for new parents and their infants. We address and support these aspects, which include recognizing the interconnectedness of the parent-baby dyad as a unified entity during the crucial first year of life, nurturing the vital bonding process, understanding the brain changes in both the parent and the child, and fostering the baby’s whole development holistically as it progresses through the most rapid growth phase from infancy to toddlerhood.