You get the privilege of meeting all of your baby’s needs; you fed her, change her diaper, provide her with love and attention. Each time you meet your baby’s needs, you provide an opportunity for a secure attachment and bonding experience for your baby. When your baby forms secure attachments, this benefits your baby...
At three months, she is using her body to help her explore her world. Remember, she is developing from her head toward her toes, and from her trunk toward her extremities. She needs strength and stability in her core before she can crawl, walk, or use her hands with control. You can help her build...
Everywhere I go I see babies looking at the world from the five-point-harness of a car seat. These car seats are truly incredible! They snap right out of their base and transform into a carrier in a stroller, a carrier in a shopping cart, even a high chair by flipping a restaurant high chair...
When babies are born, their vision is not completely developed. The newborn’s visual acuity is approximately 20/600, developing to 20/20 well after the age of five years in most children. Most visual development takes place during the first six months. We consider these first six months a critical period because after that early visual development...
Head, shoulders, knees, and toes. That is the direction that early development takes place. Babies develop from head to toe and from their trunk to their fingertips and toes. Babies will develop neck strength before core strength and they will hold their head up, then sit up, then begin to use their hands. Head to...
Of all the senses, hearing is the most well-developed at birth, providing one of the best opportunities to stimulate new babies and introduce their world to them. The development of hearing in newborns is so acute and rapid that by the age of five months, infants are typically able to determine the difference between two...
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...
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...
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...
