The Holistic Baby Acupressure System is a complete acupressure program for sleep improvement and wellness support for children from birth up until the age of five. Comprised of just twelve acupressure points, it is easy to learn and put into practice and is safe, effective, and completely noninvasive! Five acupressure sleep improvement protocols General 24-Hour Protocol to regulate the circadian rhythms Four alternative sleep protocols to balance the five elements Use of the General 24-Hour Protocol for jet lag prevention Use of the General 24-Hour Protocol for daylight saving time Increase in nap duration and nighttime sleep duration Decrease in night wakings Improved overall pattern of sleep Nineteen acupressure wellness protocols for the most common childhood health conditions A Well-Baby protocol to strengthen digestive and immune health Improved digestion and appetite Decrease in teething discomfort Decrease in number or duration of colds, flus, and coughs Adjunctive support for the treatment of allergies, asthma, and eczema Effective treatment for constipation Ease the pain of colic and reduce night crying Jennifer Chellis Taveras, LAc, is a New York City acupuncturist and health educator whose professional mission is the expansion of pediatric acupuncture and the improvement of children's health. She is the creator of the Holistic Baby Acupressure System, and her work has reached parents in twenty countries and all throughout the United States. A 2000 graduate of the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, she maintains a busy acupuncture practice at Triangle Wellness in NYC while also teaching and promoting Holistic Baby. www.holisticbabyacupuncturesystem.com www.facebook.com/holisticbaby Jennifer Chellis Taveras, L.Ac. is a NYC acupuncturist and the creator of the Holistic Baby Acupressure System. She is passionate about extending the reach of Chinese Medicine to babies and children. As a mother of a son born in 2007, she is a strong advocate, ally and promoter of natural parenting practices and Chinese Medicine. Through her work with Holistic Baby she is expanding the popularity and acceptance of Chinese Medicine for children. The author has been actively working on Holistic Baby since 2010. She conceived of the idea drawing upon her decade long experience working with an acupressure protocol to prevent jet lag. She then researched the baby sleep support market and concluded that there was nothing on the market that targeted baby sleep from the perspective of Chinese Medicine. Her next step was to conduct test groups in New York City, Ithaca, Raleigh, San Francisco and Boulder that allowed her to further develop all of the sleep and wellness protocols that encompass Holistic Baby. The author then wrote the first edition of the Holistic Baby manual and has been teaching workshops in the metropolitan New York area since 2011. She has taught at the Beth Israel Center for Health and Healing, Jillian's Drawers, Montclair BABY, Caribou Baby, Nourishing Wellness and at her Fifth Avenue office. She produced an instructional DVD in 2011 that was released commercially in 2012. The author has sold her Holistic Baby instructional manual and DVD in the following countries: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Denmark, England, Estonia, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Scotland, Singapore, Slovakia, Sweden, The Netherlands, Thailand, The Dominican Republic, United Arab Emirates, and all throughout the United States. Her work has been reviewed on eleven mommy blogs (both domestically and internationally), been featured in the Parent Guide News and she did a live interview with Life Force Families. She has written three articles for Expert Beacon and for the Epoch Times newspaper on pediatric acupuncture. Additionally, her work with Holistic Baby has received an endorsement from Dr. Benjamin Kligler of the Beth Israel Center for Health and Healing and Sharen Medrano of NYCbreastfeeding.com . The author has maintained a private Chinese Medicine practice in New York City since 2000, treating both adults and children.