Keywords
dance therapy for mothers and babies, mother and baby dance, disconnection, isolation, the mothering task, motherhood
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A community-based dance-movement therapy group can offer a nurturing, supportive environment for mothers in a busy, unsupported world where the problem of disconnection may be experienced. Within the safe space, with the movement experiences and the interventions of the dance therapist, the mother begins to see her baby and to respond intuitively to his expressions and needs. Her new identity as a mother doing the demanding task of mothering is validated. The mother can gain a sense of herself with her baby.