What Baby Can Do at Birth
There are so many misconceptions about newborn babies.
I am still asked if baby can see or hear at birth!
The answer is a resounding YES! Let’s explore the remarkable skills that babies are born with. Read the list below so that you can rejoice and encourage baby every day.
• Feel, taste, and hear
• Move arms and legs in play
• Cry when in need of something
• Enjoy being held and spoken to
• See things 8 – 10 inches away
• See the human face and black and white contrasts
• Look into your eyes while you look into his
• Maintain a quiet alert (learning) state for minutes at a time
• Look at simple pictures or designs
• Lift head to look around
• Begin to turn head
• Grasp a small object briefly
• Make cooing sounds
• Smile
• Turn head to the side to follow an object
• Turn head to the side to follow a sound
• Reach toward a toy
• Show happy and sad feelings by making sounds
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Did You Know?
That babies learn everything through their senses?
This means whatever you help him see, hear, touch, move, taste, or smell, he will learn from.
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