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Pathways to Family Wellness Podcast Interview with Wendy Anne McCarty

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Matters of the Heart During Pregnancy:

From the podcast website — On this episode we’ll be speaking with Dr Wendy Anne McCarty, a pioneer in the leading-edge field of prenatal and perinatal psychology and the expanded multidimensional understandings of babies.

In this fascinating interview Dr. McCarty shares her own journey of evolution from a Newtonian trained delivery nurse, childbirth educator, parent-infant specialist and family psychotherapist through her spiritual awakening in an experience with a 3-month old baby into her 30-year deep-dive exploration of multidimensional baby consciousness, multidimensional parenting, and innovative approaches to repair, nurture and expand human potential and optimal relationships from the beginning of life. Read more

APPPAH Monday Live Program with Wendy Anne McCarty

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Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology (PPN) Findings:
A Call to Evolve Early Development Theories and Models–An Overview

A Webinar with Wendy Anne McCarty – January 13, 2020. The field of prenatal and perinatal psychology has decades of clinical evidence and experience that expand our current early development understandings to a greater multidimensional lens.

Often when professionals enter the PPN field of literature and training, there is a disorientation of how to make sense of PPN findings when compared to currently held mainstream early development and early relationship theories and research. Dr. McCarty has traversed this territory for three decades. Read more

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When We Enter Baby’s Multidimensional World…

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For 30 years, I have had the privilege of working with babies and families through the consciousness-based paradigm lens of who babies are and how we can best welcome and support them. When we enter their multidimensional world with reverence and receptivity, we awaken greater love, awe, and avenues to nurture the baby’s human potential from the beginning of life. Babies’ experiences pre-conception through birth and bonding set in motion their fundamental life-patterns. I have seen babies and families move from survival to thriving by learning how to tap into their greater consciousness potential together as a family. Read more

One Woman’s Mission: Turn Tragedy into Call for Education and Change with Help of 12 Guiding Principles-PPN

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Last week I received a deeply moving email from Professor Luisella Magnani, faculty at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. Her heartbreaking story compels us to examine the way we care for our sick babies. In her own words:

I take the liberty of writing you in order to tell you that I am studying the 12 Guiding Principles ­– Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology with great interest. I completely and absolutely agree with you, with each word breathing in them.I am a Professor of Linguistic and Aesthetics and since 2010 I have been studying pain in Prenatal-Perinatal-and-Preverbal age.

I am my little Giampaolo’s aunt. Giampaolo was diagnosed the acute lymphoblastic leukemia on 8th March 2010, at 12 months. He died after months of great pain and distress at 19 months, in PICU, on 17th October 2010.

He was cared for only pharmacologically. His communications of the pain he endured–his crying, gestures, signs, vocalizations, movements were undervalued, underestimated, underconsidered because as one said, “He is too little.” (to meaningfully experience and communicate his pain). Read more

Bridging The Mental Divide in Early Development Education, Training, and Care Programs

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As professionals working and researching within both the prenatal and infancy domains of human development and psychology, it became clear to us that a mental divide still exists in our culture and professional practice that separates the prenatal world from that of infancy. Professionals are trained to work within one domain or the other; agencies and services are funded for one or the other. Until now there has not been a logical reason to do otherwise.  However, we see a shift on the horizon. Read more

Beginner’s Mind: What Babies Are Teaching Us

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Prenatal and perinatal psychology (PPN) has been immersed for over 40 years in learning about our earliest human experiences and how those early experiences set in motion our fundamental life patterns. What is unique about the PPN field of study and clinical work is that, at its core, it arises from and values understanding early development from the baby’s point of view Read more