Category Stages of development

I have ever wondered why when my children cry at night, I always wake up before my husband. Even though my sleep is deep, when I hear them cry, all my wake-up and bed-jumping mechanisms kick in. Could it be that he doesn't hear them? It seems that he does. The answer to this riddle that many women complain about, when we see our partners astonished sleeping or continue sleeping as if nothing had happened when our baby cries, is on the threshold of sensory perception.

Head control is one of the first challenges for the baby. During his first year of life, a succession of challenges occurs in terms of his motor skills, which is what will drive him to stand up and walk. For this process, which usually lasts a little more than 12 months, the baby begins with the control and mastery of the neck muscles, and later control of the head.

Before we begin to specify exercises and activities to stimulate language in children 1 to 2 years old, it is important to ask ourselves what exactly language is. Understanding it can help us work on it in greater detail. We use the term language regularly, but this is a much more complex concept than it sounds.

If the first smile of our baby gives us a feeling of excitement, the first laugh cannot prevent us from laughing with our children as well, and that is because the sound of babies' laughter has the ability to provoke a state of happiness. Laughing babies videos are one of the most successful on YouTube.

Many parents worry that their child may have a speech problem, wondering when should they say their first words? Everything depends on the evolution of each child, although as a general rule, all babies follow a similar evolution. The first thing will be the development of the organs involved in the ability to speak.

The more stimuli a child receives in his first year of birth, the easier he will have to express himself and speak. Stimulation is one of the secrets to getting the child to learn to speak properly. Talking to him frequently, listening to him carefully and pronouncing the words well, are some of the advice offered by the psychopedagogue Ana Carballal, an expert in Early Care, in this exclusive interview with Guiainfantil.

Your baby begins to put everything, absolutely everything in his mouth and you do not know what to do since he does not know how to distinguish what can and what cannot be put in his mouth. When my daughter began this stage of putting everything in her mouth, wherever we were in the house, we could hear the sound and noises that she made with her mouth when she began to suck everything in front of her: her toys, her fingers, his feet, ... and even the shoes, the buttons of the clothes, the bars of the crib, stuffed animals, books.

Before you begin to specify the most important milestones in the development of the baby, such as nausea, taste, breathing or even thumb sucking, and in what weeks of pregnancy they occur, it is important to talk first about the Gestational age, that is, the age of the fetus before its birth, not starting from its fertilization but from the mother's last period.