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Monday, March 3, 2008

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.