What do I do when my toddler wants to act like a baby again?

My daughter's started acting like a baby again. She wants to be cradled like a baby and sometimes asks for a bottle. Is something wrong?

Expert Answers
Susanne Ayers Denham, developmental psychologist

Probably not. Her memory may be developing, and she may start recalling some parts of her babyhood and how good it felt to be cared for as an infant. Plus, pretending to be a baby for a while can be fun. It certainly has its benefits, like receiving your undivided attention and snuggling in your arms.

One explanation could be that your daughter's reacting to change by retreating to a safer and more secure past. Many toddlers regress when there's been a shift in their routine. Has your child recently acquired a new sibling or started preschool for the first time? Or are you planning a move, or having problems with your partner? Any of these life changes can upset a toddler's budding sense of control, triggering babyish behavior. If so, try to alleviate the tension she feels with lots of hugs, attention, and time with you. When things settle down, she will, too.

Your toddler may also be trying to tell you that she's stressed out by trying to be a "big girl" before she's ready. If she has previously ditched the bottle and now insists on one when she's at home, it could be a sign that she's overwhelmed by trying to be independent too quickly. Try scaling back your expectations. Instead of requiring her to clean up her mess herself, for example, help her straighten her room. If she's having trouble dressing herself, offer to help out until she feels comfortable. When she asks for a bottle, try distracting her to see if she forgets her request. If she persists, you may want to let her have it once in a while; but instead of making a big fuss about how disappointed you are that she's back to using bottles, praise her when she does use a cup. If you focus on how great it is that she's using her "big-kid" skills instead of how she's acting like a baby again, she'll probably let go of her bottle fixation soon.

But if her attachment to the bottle seems ferociously renewed and shows no signs of dissipating, and is accompanied by other intense and constant baby behavior, such as wanting to be carried all the time, consult your pediatrician to see whether something else might be going on.

If your toddler's regression seems primarily limited to asking for lots of attention — such as wanting to sit on your lap more often or asking you to watch her while she draws — give her the love and attention she craves. Children are entitled to ask for what they need, and sometimes what they need is simply more of you. Toddlers are changing so quickly that they sometimes have to fill up on parental love and affection to shore them up for more of the maturing they do every day. Think of them as travelers preparing for a long trek; throughout their journey through childhood, they need to go to the well (you) from time to time and fill up on the confidence and love they need to do the work of growing up.

You may find that the trickiest part of dealing with your toddler's regression is handling the episodes in front of others. If your child throws a fit and asks for a bottle in front of Grandma and Grandpa, who think she's too old for it, try to make as little of the request as possible. A simple remark that everybody needs a break from being grown up can help put her actions into perspective for those around you.

Smiling Face Of Your Baby

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Baby Development - 4 to 12 Months

Your baby is part of the family now and is craving for stimulation!

The first three years of a child's life is filled with critical windows of opportunity and it is during the next 8 months that most of your baby's critical stimulation will be necessary in order to make the most out of these sensitive time periods.

Windows of opportunity are time periods when the brain is sensitive to specific stimuli in order to develop important vital senses. If the brain did not receive the stimuli required for proper development during this time, the window of opportunity will close and the child will have to fight against biology to develop these vital brain connections at a later time.

Research have shown that after 3 years of age the important "windows of opportunity" governing intellectual and emotional functioning are programmed to close.

Let's have a quick overview of these windows of opportunity:

Vision: 4 - 8 Months
At 4 months your baby's eyes should both function together and should be able to process color. Your baby should also be able to see right across the room. Use toys and objects of bright contrasting colors for visual stimulation. Visual stimulation and the development of the following skills/senses goes hand in hand:

. Motor skills [View toys that develop gross and fine motor skills]
. Touch [View toys for oral and tactile stimulation - recognizing different surfaces and textures]
. Eye-hand and Eye-foot coordination [View toys that encourage hand-eye and hand-foot coordination development]

Hearing: 4 - 10 Months

Make use of this enhanced sensitivity for sounds by exposing your baby to all kinds of music, a lot of language and speech (talking and reading to your baby) and other means of auditory stimulation.

Newborn Development

Congratulations, the long wait is over and your newborn baby is finally here!

As soon as things stabilize you may start to wonder what to do next? What activities can you do with your baby to make the most of those precious waking moments ensuring that you provide a solid foundation for your baby to develop his/her full potential?

Let’s take a quick peek at how a newborn baby develops month by month and then we will add some activities into the mix - setting both of you up for some great educational fun!

Important:
Always keep in mind that every baby develops differently. You will quickly realize once you introduce a new activity, if your baby is ready for it or not. If your baby is turning his face away from you, trying to avoid you - it is most probably an indication that your baby is tired or not ready for the activity you are trying to introduce. If your baby is not ready for an activity - leave it and try it later.

Keep in mind that babies need challenges. Once your baby has mastered something - try introducing an activity that you know are a bit more challenging. Just remember – it is important that you and your baby does not get frustrated during this time, the point is to have fun! If your baby gets frustrated – change to another activity you know he/she will enjoy and try the new activity later. Introduce new activities/concepts when your baby is fresh and responsive.

At birth a baby can normally do the following:

Vision:
See up to about 8 - 10 inches (20 - 25 cm) from his face

Babies see high contrast best and only in black and white when born

Babies love human faces (especially if there is contrast like bearded faces etc)

Round shapes also fascinates new born babies

Hearing:
Although a newborn´s sense of hearing is not as well developed as the sense of smell, touch or taste, it is definitely one of the most important senses to your baby since this is the most likely tool they will use to learn how to communicate.

As a fetus your baby started to hear as early as the 24th week of gestation and yes, mommy´s heartbeat was most probably the first sound your baby heard. No wonder the maternal heartbeat has proven to be very comforting for babies especially when agitated.

A lot of intensive care units use the sound of maternal heartbeat for the treatment of critically ill babies.

Since your unborn baby can hear very well during your last trimester, you should be careful about the sound your baby is exposed to.

Touch:
Touch are one of the most advanced senses that a newborn have and they can feel hot, cold, rough, smooth, soft and firm.

Smell:
Newborns rely on their sense of touch, taste and smell a lot more during those early days than any of their other senses. These senses are the most developed at birth and doesn´t require a lot of effort. The sense of smell is responsible for the bonding that take place between mom and baby and therefore plays a critical role in early emotional development.

A one week old baby has no problem telling the difference between the smell of his/her mommy´s breast milk and that of another woman.

Taste:
A baby´s development of taste starts early on in the womb when they have the privilege of sharing mommy´s food through the chemical substances present in the amniotic fluid.

A newborn can distinguish between salt, sweet, sour and bitter and prefers sweet over sour.

Involuntary Movements:
Your baby is born with a set of involuntary reflexes. By the age of three months these reflexes will be lost else your baby´s development will be delayed.

Rooting Reflex:
Stroke your newborn´s cheek and watch how your baby´s face turns towards the cheek being stroked. Your baby will ´root around´ for a nipple in order to feed.

Moro´s Reflex:
When startled or if your baby feels he is falling, your baby will spread out arms and legs in a star shape and arch her back. This is known as the involuntary Moro´s reflex.

Walking Reflex:
If you hold up your newborn and let his/her feet touch a flat surface, your baby will make step movements.

Grasp Reflex:
Your newborn baby has an involuntary grasp reflex - try putting your fingers against your baby´s palms and watch how he/she will grasp them tightly.'

Darwinian reflex:
If a newborn´s palms are touched, they will make a very tight fist this is an unconscious reflex action called the Darwinian reflex and it disappears within two to three months.

Developmental Milestones Birth to 4 Months of age
Between now and the day that your newborn infant is four months old he or she will most likely reach the developmental milestones displayed below. Use these milestones as your guide to plan some developmental activities into your baby's daily routine in order to provide him/her with the tools and opportunity to work and reach these milestones. Enjoy your baby and have fun. It is amazing how quickly they grow up (you are about to experience it first hand). Make every second with your baby a second to remember.

Birth - 1 Months
Fine Motor Skills: The hands of a newborn baby are closed most of the time and they have little control over them.

As a result of the Darwinian reflex, a newborn infant will grasp at an object placed in their hands, but without any awareness that they are doing so. At some point their hand muscles relax, and they drop the object, equally unaware that they have let it fall.

Babies may begin flailing at objects that interest them by two weeks of age but cannot grasp them.

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Gross Motor Skills: When lying on his tummy - your baby will lift his feet a little and try to bend his knees

When lying on his tummy - Your baby will try to lift his/her head for a second or two. Something that is very difficult because the head is too heavy for his back and neck muscles but still a very important exercise

1 Months - 2 Months
Fine Motor Skills: A newborn baby begin to discover and play with their hands, at first solely by touch, and then, at about three months, by sight as well.

Deliberate grasp remains largely undeveloped.

Babys loves playing with paper - crumbling, tearing etc. This is great exercise for those little hands

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Gross Motor Skills: Developing muscle strength is very important for your baby.
Tummy Time: Your baby should be able to lift his/her head at an angle of 45 degrees for a second or two

By the end of 8 weeks your baby should be able to hold his/her upright for a few seconds when held upright.

Your baby should be uncurled from the fetus position and his/her legs should be able to take his/her body weight for a second.

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Speech: Newborn will start vocalising. (Vocalise is a vocal exercise without words, which is sung on one or more vowel sounds.)

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Social development: Smiles at mother

2 Months - 3 Months
Fine Motor Skills: Hand-eye coordination begins to develop between the ages of two and four months, launching a period of trial-and-error practice at sighting objects and grabbing at them.

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Gross Motor Skills: Your baby may start to support himself a little on his hands, wrists and arms when doing tummy time

Loves moving his/her arms and legs about - kicking and waving

Your baby is still sitting with a curved back

3 Months - 4 Months
Fine Motor Skills: Babies begin to discover and play with their hands by sight.

Your baby will briefly hold a small toy voluntarily when it is placed in his/her hand

Your baby can shake a rattle to hear the noise but can´t pick the rattle up yet.

Your baby will try to reach for toys but will most probably not be able to grasp it since she is still learning to judge distance

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Gross Motor Skills: There is a lot less head lag when your baby is gently pulled into a sitting position by the arms when lying on her back

When baby is on tummy he/she can hold their head up for prolonged periods.

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Vision: Your baby will follow a slow moving toy from side to side.

Your baby will soon start to focus instantly on an object and easily follow the movements.

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Social development: Squeals with pleasure when enjoying something

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Cognitive development: Your baby may start to anticipate coming events. For example, he/she may pull up their knees when placed on a changing table or smile with gleeful anticipation when put in a front pack for an outing.

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Indigestion or gas

How can I tell what's causing my child's gas?

How can I help relieve my child's indigestion or tell if it's something more serious?

Intestinal gas is a perfectly normal occurrence in children and in adults. (We grown-ups pass, on average, 2 liters of gas a day.) In most cases, it isn't a cause for concern, unless your child is experiencing more than minor discomfort and complaining a lot. The best thing you can do is to try to eliminate or manage the offending food or habit that's triggering your child's gas. When your child does have uncomfortable gas pain, you can give him an ant-acid (such as Mylanta Supreme) as well as an anti-gas agent (such as Mylicon) to help upper and lower gastrointestinal discomfort. But if you find yourself treating your child several times a day for more than three consecutive days, or his gas coincides with other symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, or fever, call your doctor. Your child might have a more serious condition such as a food allergy or lactose intolerance. How can I tell what's causing my child's gas?

There could be several factors causing your child to have more gas or indigestion than usual:

Roaming around during meals

Many time-crunched parents today find that we'll do anything to get our kids to eat right, including letting them meander around house, watch television, or even roughhouse during meals. Not a good idea. "When kids roam and play while they eat, they can get excited and trap air in their intestinal tracts during mealtime," says Michael Hart, director of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Carilion Medical Center for Children in Roanoke, Virginia.

Odds are, if your toddler is a roamer, he eats fast or gulps so his chewing doesn't impede his playing, which also increases air consumption and isn't good for digestion. And if he has meals while watching television, he might ignore his body's signals that he's full and overeat. Encourage your child to sit at the table with you during meals, chew his food well, and take his time when he eats. Reassure him that when he's done, he can play as long as he wants to.

Eating a lot of high-fiber foods, like cereal, or fatty foods, like French fries
Some children's guts may be sensitive to fiber or fat. Take note of which types of foods bring on your child's bouts of gastrointestinal distress and try limiting them. You might also discuss his diet with your pediatrician, who could have other suggestions.

Eating certain vegetables

Like adults, children can experience additional gas when they eat vegetables like beans, broccoli, and cauliflower. If your child eats these healthy foods, that's a good thing. Just make sure you don't overload him with too many gas-inducing veggies at consecutive meals.

Drinking a lot of juice

In general, parents misunderstand the benefits of giving kids juice. If your child is drinking more than a glass a day, it might be causing him to have a little extra gas. Some children have a difficult time digesting the fructose and sucrose in juice. As a result, it can bring on gas, even diarrhea, and make a child feel too full come mealtime. Plus, it bathes the teeth in sugar. Ideally, a child under the age of 3 shouldn't be drinking more than one 4-oz. glass of juice a day.

Drinking a lot of soda

Carbonated drinks like soda contain phosphoric acid, which can cause excessive gas and indigestion. Soda also tends to make children feel full, so they don't drink the necessary milk and water they should or get all the nutrients they need throughout the day. Try to eliminate soda from your child's diet or at least limit it to special occasions or birthday parties.

Not drinking enough water

Drinking water won't eliminate your child's gas problem, but it will help improve any constipation or difficulty he might have passing stools (constipation often coincides with gas and abdominal discomfort). Make sure your child has several glasses of water each day in addition to the milk or juice you give him.

Source: Dr. Michael Hart, director of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Carilion medical Center for Children in Roanoke, Virginia

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Are You A New Parent? Following Suggestions Can Help For Your New Born Development!

Coming into the world is a big adventure for the babies.


The new born development involves the social and emotional development.


Sleepy and shy babies also take interest in your face and voice.

New born development in babies is understood by observing these.

• The new born can feel but they cannot think.
• They can’t understand what is happening to them.
• They do not know who is feeding them.
• They cry when they are hungry and tired but they don’t know who they are cared for.
  Smile by four to five weeks.
• They cannot respond to the parents with consciousness.
• Laugh out loudly by three months.

Some physical development characteristics are many babies cry a lot especially at late afternoons and evenings. The baby can feel overwhelmed and bombarded by external stimuli.



Hearing and seeing in newborns:


New borns can hear the noises and has been hearing before birth. New borns can see with their immature eye muscles but they cannot organise the visual images into meaningful shapes.



The newborn developmental characters are that they are attracted by bright lights, stripes, colors, patterns and dots in the first two months.

• By six months of time the eyes move in unison.
• The first object they recognize is human face.
• They begin to recognize the faces and other things by first three months.

The physical activity of using their body is reflex and involuntary. They can move their limbs when they are awake but they still do not know how to move their body.



Developmental characters of using their body include:

• Startling, sucking, pulling, and grasping are all reflexes.
• They watch their feet and hands wave in the air.
• They lift their head when lying on their tummy, and kick their legs at about eight weeks.

Language and speech in new borns as a means of communication is by crying. Immediately respond to your baby so that they can feel that you are there for them.



Characteristics of speech include:

• They can discover their voice and begin to make sounds of vowels and cooing sounds by seven or eight weeks.
• At the stage of eight weeks, they can listen to you, and make noise back as they talk to you.

Suggestions on supporting and encouraging your baby’s developments include:

• Play them music
• Hold them a lot
• Hang the mobile above the cot facing them
• Speak to them gently by using their name
• Sing to them
• Copy their little gestures
• Rock them
• Let them look at your face when you talk to them.

In case if your baby is not developing at the same rate along with other children then seek the advice of health professional.



Signs that Suggest on developmental problems include:

• Unusually stiff and floppy body
• Fingers are held tightly
• Not startling to noises
• Not watching the faces by 2 to 3 months
• Child is exceptional placid and quiet
• Long periods of crying.

Hence, you can know the new born development and signs of problems.

Understand The Various Stages Of Toddler Development!

Your little baby will be growing day by day, when he or she became toddler you can observe various physical and mental developments in them.

Know various physical, intellectual, social, emotional and mental toddler developments that you can observe.

Physical toddler development:

• The toddlers may grow less quickly when compared to infancy.
• Most probably children at this age will eat less, but they prefer to eat more frequently throughout the day.
• Most of them will walk without support by 14 months.
• They can walk backward and up steps by 22 months.
• They prefer to eat the food by themselves although spills can be expected.
• They will like to drink water with cup (with help).
• They can scribble and stack blocks.

Social and emotional toddler development:

• They like to do their things independently.
• You can observe common toddler temper tantrums in them.
• They don’t like to play with other children. They like to play by themselves.
• They may be possessive or feel difficult to share toys with other children.
• Rules cannot be remembered by them.
• They feel themselves as the center of attraction to the whole world.

How Baby Sound In The First Year Of Her Life Helps For Language Development?

From birth to one year you will hear your baby sound in the form of crying to cooing to talking.

This baby sound is a sign for the development of her speech and language skills.

What type of baby sound you can observe from birth to one year?

One month:

Your baby at one month old can understand the speech before she begins to speak.

From the birth she will look at your face and listens to your voice. You can observe a small range of baby sound that will mean something to you.

With this sound she expresses the feelings of hunger, upset or cold and pain. The baby sound includes crying and certain sounds that she makes while breathing. When your baby is feeding she makes sucking noises and sound of happiness.

Baby’s cry is an important way to communicate. Crying is the foundation for speech as your baby learns to control the air that comes from her lungs and learns how to use her vocal cord.

Two months:

A two month old baby pays more and more attention to her world. She will be fascinated by the sound of your voice and will follow it with great concentration. The different tones of your voice will keep her fascinated for short periods of time.

Your baby sound with a variety of cooing sounds, vowel-like sounds, and sometimes some constant sounds such as a “K”. You will find a collection of cooing baby sound that she uses to communicate with you.

You can encourage cooing baby sound by talking to your baby as much as possible. Look directly into your baby’s eyes to show that you are listening. This helps to establish signals of communication between both of you.

Three months:

At this age your baby will identify your voice and will turn towards you when she hears your voice. She starts laughing loudly. Your baby sound is in such a fashion as “ahhhh gooo”.

Continue talking to your baby, as well as sing to her and read her stories. The more you communicate with your baby and let her know that you are listening the more she will attempt to communicate with you.

Four months:

At this age your baby is learning more and more ways to communicate with you. She will be smiling instinctively at everything around her. There will be lot repetition to the baby sound that she makes.

You have to respond to your baby sound like “oohs” and “ahhs” with your own voice. This is the “chat time” for both of you. Your baby makes some signs through which you will know that when she is not in the mood for talking with you.

She will turn her head in the other direction and may put her arms over her face. By crying she shows the signs of anger and frustration.

Five months:

At this period your baby will makes some mimic sounds and gestures which allow her to express her needs. She will be able to let you know if she is happy or sad. If your baby needs something she will start babble until you respond to her.

If you respond to your baby sound she will repeat her noises often because she knows that in this way she can get your attention.

Your baby will now be observing your mouth when you talk. She is learning to control her vocal sounds as she observes your response to her sounds.

Six months:

At this age you can hear baby sound which consists of constant-vowel combinations. She is able to discover her image in the mirror and she can communicate with her “playmates”. Your baby can communicate in a more accurate way.

There are several ways that you can help your baby to continue to develop his language skills by:

• Speak clearly, slowly and accurately with your baby.


• Help your baby to identify objects as you say their names.


• Use very short sentences.


• Repeat singing songs and nursery rhythms. This will help your baby to learn.


• Read as possible as you can to your baby, ask questions about the images in the book so that she will be interested in you.


• Allow your baby to respond in her own way.

Seven months:

At this age your baby continues to learn how to use her language skills. She learns how to wave goodbye. Your baby sounds some words like “mama” or “dada”.

Eight months:

At this period your baby learns to play games such as pat a cake and peek-a-boo. Though she can’t speak the word of these games, she can babble and talk to himself. Your baby can understand the meaning of the word “no”, even though she doesn’t like hearing them.

Nine months:

Continue to play lot of games with your baby, especially those games that involve singing. Your baby is responding to small sentences such as “take mummy’s hand”.

Ten months:

Your baby sound becomes more accurate and language skills continue to develop. She will be using her own gibberish language to interact with you.

Eleven months:

Your baby sounds some short, one syllable words such as “bye” and continues to talk in her gibberish language. There are many ways that you can help to improve your baby sound and language:

• Talk with your baby using simple words to identify objects in her life. Tell the numbers, colors, animals, and trees as you take your baby for a walk. Call your baby frequently with her name so that she can recognize it.


• Listen patiently to your baby sound. Respond to her sound in a positive way.


• Introduce concepts to your baby, such as the “big” dog or “little” mouse.


• Give your baby time to get her words out.


• Continue to read your baby as much as possible.

Twelve months:

At this age your baby’s language skills continue to progress as she discovers more and more things around her world. You can hear your baby sound perfectly and accurately.

Encouraging Your Baby Walking Attempts

Learning baby walking is a key milestone in every baby’s life. The first step while learning baby walking takes place in between nine and thirteen months.

Sometimes baby walking starts at sixteenth or seventeenth month, you need not to worry, this is still perfectly normal.

Baby exercise is essentially important to their health. The first baby exercise of course will be in the nurse’s arms.

After a month or two when your baby begins to sleep less during the day, he will delight to roll and kick about on the sofa.

He will thus use his limbs freely. Expose your baby into the open air, is all the exercise he requires at this period.

At some period the child will make his first attempt to walk. There are some baby walking devices which have been devised to teach a child to walk.

If you adopt the go-cart, leading-strings etc, their tendency is harmful, and they can cause flatness of the chest, confined lungs, distorted spine, and deformed legs, are so many evils which often originate in such practices.

How Can You Develop The Essential Motor Skills In Your Child Development?

There are things you can do for your child development.

These things help in the process of developing the motor skills which are necessary for child walking on her own.

Here are few tips for child development:

1. When you want to help in your child walking, don’t hold her legs or hands. You can hold her by the torso.
2. Don’t allow your baby to wear shoes when she is inside. It is much easier for a baby to learn to walk barefoot.
3. Try to encourage your child walking motor skills by calling her to come to you or by placing a favorite toy just out of reach so that she crawls towards it. This will help her engage in these actions on her own decision and will accelerate the development of several necessary skills for independence.
4. Make sure that the floor in your house is not slippery. It is difficult for your baby to balance on a slippery floor and this will be dangerous for a baby just learning to balance.
   

Motor skills which are necessary for child development are not exactly the same thing as hand and eye coordination but they are pretty closely related. The development of hand-eye coordination often analogous and/or compliments the development of gross and fine motor skills.

Most of the parents are worried about their baby’s growth patterns.

Most of the parents are worried about their baby’s growth patterns.

Regular visits with the pediatrician can help to main the normal baby growth.

Your pediatrician can use growth charts as tools to keep track of your baby growth and development.

The doctor will measure your baby’s length, weight, and head circumference in each checkup.

Then the doctor compares your baby growth measurements to a chart of national averages for infants of the same age and sex.

Hence the doctor will be able to tell you what percentile your baby is in when compared to averages for babies around the nation.

There are many issues that come into play when determining where your baby growth statistics will fall in the percentile chart.

You have to remember that no two babies are the same and that every child depends on the body chemistry, heredity, diet, and many other factors. These measurements, charts, and percentile points are only guides for a doctor to help in evaluating your baby growth.

You can also track your baby growth at home, but the measurements you take at home may or may not be as accurate as the measurements your doctor takes.

How Motors Skills Help For Your Baby Development?

When your baby begins to participate and engage in the world around him, it indicates that your baby is becoming more and more independent.

From the moment after the birth your baby will begin the process of developing the motor skills that are necessary for him to take command of that which is around him and for him to relate with the environment.

Physical baby development can be broken up into three-month intervals and divided into two categories. One is gross motor skills and the other is fine motor skills.

Gross motor skills are the term, which is used to describe your baby’s ability to control different parts of his own body.

Fine motor skills refer to your baby’s level of harmonization of different body parts, such as picking up an object with his thumb and forefinger. These two skills indicate your baby development.

Infant muscle development starts at the head and works its way down. Baby development first starts with control over the neck muscles. Soon after that your baby learns to control the torso and finally leg muscles.