Your baby changes and grows so much in this first year. Track your baby’s development month by month, encourage your baby’s learning with our suggested activities . Find practical information on health and safety. We can help you with tips on crying, sleeping or even what to look for when choosing a baby sitter. Have questions about basic care? We have the answers !
Baby Learning
- Activities to do with your 2 month old
- Here are a few fun ways to encourage your 2 month old's growth and development.
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- Activities for your 3 month old
- Here are a few ideas on how to nurture and encourage your 3 month old's development and learning.
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- Activities to do with your 4 month old
- Here are a few ideas on how to nurture and encourage learning and development with your 4 month old.
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- Activities to do with your 5 month old
- Spending time with your 5 month old is a joy! Here are some ideas and activities.
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- Activities to do with your 6 month old
- Your 6 month old is learning and developing every day. Here are some ways to stimulate your baby's play.
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- Activities to do with your 7 month old
- Here are a few ideas on how to have fun and enjoy your baby this month.
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- Activities to do with your 8 month old
- Here are some ideas for encouraging your 8 month old baby's development.
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- Activities to do with your 9 month old
- Here are a few ideas on how to enhance your 9 month olds learning and development.
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- Activities to do with your 10 month old
- Here are a few ideas on how to help develop your baby's learning this month.
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- Activities to do with your 11 month old
- Here are a few ideas on how to encourage development and learning in your 11 month old baby.
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- Activities for gross motor development
- Here are some tips to encourage gross motor development in your baby:
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- Activities for sight development
- 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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- Baby brain development - building a foundation for life
- The ways you interact with your baby will help determine how her brain develops.
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- Baby Smiles
- Your baby’s smile might be telling you more than you think.
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- Baby talk
- As your baby begins to make purposeful sounds, questions may come to mind. When does my baby begin to learn language?
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- Books your baby will love
- Reading to babies is so important! Here is a selection of books your baby will love:
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- Developing oral language skills - baby
- 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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- Games for babies
- Babies learn through play - but what kinds of games will help your baby to grow and develop?
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- Games to play with your baby - Touch and see
- Whenever they are awake, babies are hard at work, trying to learn all about the world.
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- Games to play with your six month old
- A six-month-old is awake for much of the day, and she wants to play.
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- How to communicate with your baby
- As your baby grows you will both develop more complicated ways of communicating with one another. Here are a few ways that you can keep the lines of communication open.
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- How your baby communicates with you
- Luckily for parents trying to figure out what your baby needs gets easier over time. Here are some ways your baby communicates with you.
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- Ideas for encouraging listening and talking (baby)
- Help your baby build listening and talking skills with these ideas below.
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- Importance of play (Baby)
- 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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- Learning and sound - activities for babies
- 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 babies
- Your baby has a complete sense of touch waiting for exploration.
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- Music and your baby
- 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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- Nursery rhymes - baby
- 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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- Sensory exploration and learning (0-4 mths)
- During the earliest months of life, play is appropriately called exploration because your interactions with your baby focus on introducing him to the sensations taken in through his fully functioning senses.
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- Supporting baby language development
- What is the best way to support a baby’s budding language skills?
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- Teaching emotional intelligence to babies
- Babies have the capacity to feel everything, and they can sense whether things are good or bad at home.
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- Toys for babies
- Part of the fun of having a baby is shopping for the toys. Take a peek at this quick list to see what babies like to play with.
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- Tummy time activities for babies
- Activities to help your baby love Tummy Time.
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- Visual development and your baby
- 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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- When can I read to my baby
- Babies are born with an in-built fascination for words and language.
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- Why read to your baby
- A child can learn and benefit greatly from being read to right from the day they are born.
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