Baby's Proper Age Of Discovering The World

By Author: Tom Schavo
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If the first three months of life are about getting basic systems working smoothly, months four through twelve are about discovery. These are the months when the baby begins to discover the big world around him, starting by touching everything and then later on learning and identifying things with eyes.

Infants discover their own bodies and gain control of muscles large and small. They explore the world of things and begin to figure out the fundamentals of cause and effect.

And they learn to read other people’s feelings and predict how their own actions will affect those feelings. These momentous discoveries take infants to the very threshold of language. Some cross that threshold before their first birthday, others cross it some time later.

The meaning of milestones. Doctors tend to focus on easy-to-see milestones: rolling over, sitting up, standing, walking.

It is true that a baby who is very late starting these may have developmental problems. But many healthy children are early, many are late, and the timing turns out not to be very important.

More meaningful are the ...
... milestones that mark the child’s connection with other people smiling in response to being smiled at, listening when talked to, paying close attention to a parent’s face to see if a new situation is safe, and noticing whether a parent is pleased or displeased.

Parents are usually tuned into these social milestones, even though they may not keep track of them as they do the sitting-standing-walking ones.

This is the age when you carefully observe the kind of movements a baby begins to learn. Parents needs to be very careful in observing the way the baby is moving, his posture, his twists and turns.

Along with timing, pay attention to the quality of your baby’s behavior. One child prefers to sit and watch, taking everything in but doing relatively little, another is constantly active, impatient to move, and quick to lose interest.

One seems constantly alert to every small change; another is blissfully unaware. One is serious, another is bubbly. These are all perfectly fine ways for a baby to be, but they call for different input from parents.
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