We spend a lot of time thinking about how to communicate with our babies. We sing to them, read to them, talk to them, use different tones of voices…but what about how babies communicate with us? Believe it or not, they are telling us all about it from the moment they are born. With...
English Nursery Rhyme Database: A A – Tisket A – Tasket A – Tisket a – tasket, A green and yellow basket. I wrote a letter to my love, And on the way I dropped it. I dropped it, I dropped it, And on the way I dropped it. A little boy (girl) picked...
Tummy time is so important for babies to build a foundation of core strength that will help them in many motor developmental milestones. Babies can start tummy time as soon as they are born for just a few minutes per day and this can increase every day until they are getting up to an...
We read to our babies, sing to our babies, play Mozart, hang mobiles, buy brightly lit toys, always concerned with our babies’ senses of vision and hearing, but how often do we think about taste? The sense of taste is very acute at birth. At just seven to eight weeks gestation, taste buds start emerging and...
H.A.L.T.! Stop and think. Are you: Hungry Angry Lonely Tired? Take care of your most basic needs first. That’s what we do for our babies, right? Feed them, give them a nap… The same strategies work on a frazzled care-giver. When we are not taking care of our most basic needs, we can’t possibly take...
Did you know you can predict your baby’s growth spurts? Some babies have growth spurts randomly at any old time, but research shows that most babies fit their rapid periods of growth into certain points in their development. These times typically are: Two weeks Three weeks Six weeks Three months Six months Nine months Growth...
Baby Acne: He is beautiful and adorable and you just want to kiss that little face all day long, but what’s the deal with these red bumps all over his face and his crusty eyes? Baby acne, or newborn acne is simply a reaction to the hormones that crossed the placenta from mommy’s body into...
Don’t underestimate the power of breathing! When we are stressed a hormone called cortisol is released throughout our system and it makes us feel tense and anxious. The calming hormone, serotonin is nowhere to be found, but we can trick our body into producing serotonin to calm us down. Because serotonin is secreted from...
Patrick Chung from Aimee Ketchum on Vimeo. Don’t be offended mommies, but research shows us that daddy’s early interactions with baby are a higher predictor of future language and academic skills. In other words, the more daddy reads to your baby, sings to your baby, and talks to your baby, the smarter your baby will...
Your baby gains so much information from the world around her in her first year that her brain will actually double in weight and triple by age three. When she was born, the brain cells or neurons were all in place but there were very few connections between these cells. These connections occur through new...
