Welcome to the world of parenting. Here you can learn about your newborn’s development week by week and get ideas about toys and activities to share with your new baby. We have advice on the best way to keep your baby safe , as well as tried and tested tips for soothing a fussy baby
Newborn Learning
- 12 ways to encourage newborn language development
- The way you interact with your baby can help to develop language and communication skills.
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- Activities for gross motor development (newborn)
- Here are some tips to encourage gross motor development in your newborn.
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- Activities for sight development (newborn)
- With a growing sense of when and how long your baby is ready to explore, consider appealing to his developing sense of sight.
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- Activities to do with your 8 week old
- Here are a few fun ways to encourage your little ones growth and development.
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- Baby smiles (newborn)
- Your baby’s smile might be telling you more than you think.
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- Baby talk and your newborn
- When does my baby begin to learn language?
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- Brain Development - Building a Foundation for Life
- The way you react to, and interact with your baby will help determine how her brain develops.
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- How to communicate with your newborn
- Learning how to communicate with your newborn is truly a joy. Here are some simple ways you can do this.
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- How to nurture brain development (newborn)
- Here are some tips for activities to do with your newborn to help stimulate her brain.
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- How your newborn learns to communicate
- It will be months before your baby says her first word. However, babies start learning about language much earlier.
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- Learning and sound - activities for newborns
- Your baby’s ability to hear and recognize your voice begins around the seventh month of pregnancy.
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- Learning and touch - activities for newborns
- Your baby has a complete sense of touch waiting for exploration.
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- Music and your newborn
- Music is a wonderful activity to share with your baby. We all enjoy music, so here are some ways to include it in your daily life.
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- Newborn - importance of play
- All the parenting books state how important play is to babies. We all want our babies to learn and to have fun.
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- Nursery rhymes - newborn
- Forgotten the words to the nursery rhymes you sang as a child? Here are a couple of favorites to share with your little one.
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- Oral language development and your newborn
- Amazingly, a baby’s language development begins before he or she is born. Research shows that in the 7th prenatal month a baby shows signs of relaxation (a decrease in heart rate) at the sound her mother’s voice.
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- Reading to your newborn
- Babies are born with an in-built fascination for words and language.
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- Sensory exploration and learning with newborns
- During the earliest months of life, play is appropriately called exploration because your interactions with your newborn focus on introducing him to the sensations taken in through his fully functioning senses.
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- Supporting newborn language skills
- What is the best way to support your newborn's budding language skills?
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- Toys for newborn babies
- Looking for a newborn gift idea or just wondering what you can do to enhance your baby's development?
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- Visual development and your newborn
- Babies need to have adequate visual experiences to build the "seeing" neurons in their brain. Only then can they interpret and use input from the eyes.
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