Baby Baby
The stage of breastfeeding is the first stage of life. It is an important stage on many levels for parents and children. The child starts growing, responding, adapting to the surrounding environment with astonishing speed, learning a lot about the world around him, It is therefore important to understand the stages of growth of the infant.
Stages of growth of the baby
Although each child grows in a distinctive and specific way, the process of development and development of children is somewhat similar. Every infant must have acquired some skills and mastered others over a certain period of time, depending on the stages of development of the infant. If you have any problems with your growth, you should see your doctor to see if it is normal or not. Depending on your age, the child’s developmental stages are classified into three main groups: motor development , Social growth, and emotional growth.
Child in the first month of life
Because the child’s nervous system is still in the process of maturation, most of the baby’s behaviors are reflexes. Later, when the nervous system is mature, the child is able to produce more mature behaviors and behaviors that the child can in his first month of life Including the following:
- Motor growth: The baby can close his hand tightly and raise his head slightly from his body when he puts it on his stomach.
- Social Growth: The baby looks around him and at people’s faces, preferring to look at shapes of different colors, such as white and black, and closes his eyes or changes his breathing when he hears the noise.
- Reactions: The infant can do the following:
- Mouthing reflexes include the spontaneous suction reflex that the child automatically does when others touch his mouth, and the Swallowing Reflex reaction. These processes are very important for the survival of the child The reflected reflexes also include the Rowing reflex reflex, which helps the baby orient its head toward the object that touches the face and helps to find the nipple.
- Moro Reflex: The child extends his arms and feet when he hears the loud sound or when he falls back. It is worth mentioning that this reflex reaction disappears when the infant reaches two to three months of age.
- Grasp Reflex: The baby grabs anything placed in the palm of his hand.
- Stepping Reflex: When the baby is stopped and its feet are placed on a flat surface, it begins to try to step.
Child from the age of one to three months
The shape of the child changes during this stage, and most of the reflexes in this period are lost. Changes observed in this age include:
- Motor growth: At this stage of life, the baby’s neck muscles become stronger; he can lift his head from his body for a few seconds when he turns on his stomach and begins to grasp the objects with his hand, which opens and closes them constantly, and begins to put his hand in his mouth and stare at them.
- Linguistic Growth: The baby begins to issue sounds at this age.
- Social Growth: In this period of life, the child appears more active and responsive to his surroundings, and his eyes develop. He is aroused by bright objects and bright colors. He begins to recognize people around him, smiles in their faces, synthesizes their voices and responds to play with them.
Child from four months to seven months
Children at this stage become more capable and control what they do, at this age can be observed the following parameters:
- Motor growth: In this age the child can bring things and put them in his mouth, so be careful to remove the small things around him, and the baby begins to lift his chest from the ground when placed on his stomach, as the muscles of the upper part of his body become stronger, and these movements are only to prepare the body In addition to this, the child begins to move his hands in the same manner as moving them while swimming, kicking his feet, and these movements prepare for the process of crawling or love, and at the end of this period of the child’s life, the child can turn himself when he put his stomach to the back and vice versa Without the help of his parents.
- Linguistic Growth: The child moves from repeating vowels to pronouns and begins by repeating “ba-ba-ba-ba”. He can also distinguish feelings from the speaker’s tone and become able to laugh.
- Social Growth: The child’s connection with his parents is strong at this age, but he accepts strangers, plays with them, smiles in their faces at the beginning of this stage, while the anxiety phase of strangers begins at about 5-6 months. The child prefers to stay with the parents and begins to cry when he is pregnant. Before someone else, at the level of the senses, the sense of sight becomes more acute, the child’s ability to focus and prefer the child at this stage complex forms, as he likes to look himself in the mirror.
The child is eight months to twelve months old
Among the indicators of child development at this stage are:
- Motor growth: At this stage, the child can sit without help or support, and can change the position of his body from the position of sitting to sleep on the abdomen and vice versa, and begins to love almost between the age of seven and nine months, and the importance of the process of love in helping to integrate the development and continuity of the sides of the brain, That there are some children who do not like the conventional sense, but they crawl while sitting or lying on their stomachs, and then the child can walk based on something, and then walk some steps without help, as the balance of the baby at this time is growing mature, So children usually yawn The first step is when they reach 12 months, but some children take their first steps before or after this age. On the other hand, the child’s grip is more mature at this age. Note that the child begins to hold objects using the thumb and first or second finger. During the process of discovering the ocean.
- Linguistic Growth: The baby begins to pronounce and distinguish syllables such as “Ma” and “Ba” in the period between eight months and one year of age. The language then develops more so that the child can pronounce the word mama and papa. At the age of the year he can utter at least another word Side of Mama and Papa.
- Social Growth: The forms that are of interest to the child in this age are shapes and objects moving and those that close and open, so be careful about the safety of the child from the electrical plugs because children begin to put their small fingers in the holes around them in this age, on the other hand the child can understand the orders, And to understand the meaning of the word no, shake the head in the sense of no, and communicate with those around him by pointing, and love towards the things he wants, can also waving the meaning of goodbye, and can play interactive games, and the situation of fear of strangers at this age, and this is normal as a stage of development Emotional Walsh Lori when the child, with a state of anxiety from strangers zenith between the ninth month and the eighteenth of the child’s age and fade before reaching two years of age.