BABY WEARING DANCE HELPS PARENTS STRENGTHEN BOND WITH BABIES|媽媽擁寶寶共舞 訓練身心協調.母嬰更親密

In other news, special dance classes in Italy are helping parents to strengthen their bond with babies by keeping them attached to one another. The practice is known as baby wearing dance, and it helps bring parents and babies even closer. Putting ballet shoes on and carefully strapping a baby to her chest with a fabric wrap, Dance teacher Elena Alessandra Zo is getting ready for her weekly class. Zo teaches a baby wearing dance class, a dance that involves binding a child to an adult's body to help develop an intimate bond between the two. Parents taking the dance class all experienced a great variety of emotions. ==SONIA PROFITA baby wearing dance student== I feel his heartbeat, he feels my heart beat. I'm moved every time I feel him so close. ==EGLE CHIESA baby wearing dance student== Giada (her daughter) was born premature and very small, she was 1.2 kilos. Baby wearing helped us a great deal to improve our closeness to her, something that was taken away from us when she was born, particularly in her first 50 days. Zo's class combines body expression with modern dance moves. Other variations of baby wearing dance include jazz, oriental, Latin-American and belly dancing. The physical and psychological benefits of the dance are reflected in participants' reactions. Most babies fall asleep and most parents feel relaxed after the dance. In fact, there is science to back up the phenomenon. ==RITA CAPORALI Clinical Psychologist== We know that by practicing sport, by moving, higher levels of serotonin are produced and serotonin is defined as the hormone of well-being. So through baby wearing dance a mother's happiness is passed on to her child, is transferred to her baby. For the safety of parent and child, dance moves need to be chosen carefully. Baby wearing dance does not include moves such as jumps and pirouettes that could make parents dizzy and fall over. TRANSLATED BY：ARIEL HSIEH