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Your baby will go through various stages in its early live.

Baby development is predictable, which makes it easy for parents to see if their baby is in the normal range or not.

However, each baby is also unique and might not learn various until it is older or actually be a fast learner and not follow the typical development stage either.Conception

Pregnancy and birth are the two most important events, a mother will experience in her life.

Both deserve careful and thoughtful planning.

From conception to birth

The countdown to a baby’s birth actually begins about two weeks before it is conceived or the first day of the woman’s last menstrual period.

Conception can only occur during ovulation, which happens about the middle of the month of menstrual period.

    See what happens inside you during the conception process..

In the Beginning

In the first two weeks of your pregnancy actually involve you not being pregnant, as conception actually occurs during week three.

Fertilization occurs when the sperm and the egg come together in a fallopian tube to form a zygote. If more than one egg is released and then fertilized, you may end up with more than one zygote. This zygote has 46 chromosomes, and 23 of them come from the mother and 23 of them come from the father. Once fertilization has occurred, the zygote will move on down the fallopian tube and to the uterus. Meanwhile it is dividing fast in order to form a cluster of cells that look like a tiny raspberry. The inner cells will become the embryo, while the outer cells will become nourishing and protective membranes for the embryo.

In week four, the implantation occurs. The zygote, which is now called a blastocyst, gets to your uterus, and it will burrow into the wall of the uterine for nourishment. The placenta will also start to form.

During the second trimester, after the twelfth week the uterus is growing, the abdomen bellys out and the pregnancy becomes visible. The movements of the foetus are percept between the twentieth and the twenty-second week of amenorrhea (for the first baby).

Motor Development: 10-12 Month

The cruising, mobile pre-toddler is just on the verge of walking independently. He waves bye-bye and picks up small objects neatly.

As you anxiously await the moment of his first steps (camcorder constantly at the ready), you’ll see him standing independently more and more often and for longer periods.

Then he’ll try a step and plop forward. Sometimes, all they need at that stage is an object to stabilize themselves.

Put a large ball in his hands as he gets ready to try it again. The shift in his center of gravity may be enough to keep him from falling down.

And once he’s taken his first baby step, the rest come easily.

At this age, the range of variation from baby to baby is enormous. The rate at which one baby acquires new skills is necessarily different than the rate at which his best friend is picking up milestones.

Motor Development: First Skills

As baby grows, the head grows, and the size  of the brain grows because it is continually expanding the interconnections between these nerve cells. These links are the conscious and unconscious signals that make up our mind.

At the time of birth, a vast network already exists. It is expanded with each muscular task. When he first learns to put his thumb in his mouth, his brain establishes a link between two neurons that is reused each time he does it—and thus he learns to satisfy himself. These pathways become the “memory” of movements: They go from an accident to a skill.

Some early motor skills include propping himself upright on his elbows, bringing his hands together, keeping his head up when he’s propped to sit, visually tracking an object from side to side.

Development and Back-to-Sleep Babies

Changing the way babies sleep has subtly changed the timing of motor milestone acquisition. A number of milestones once set in stone, or, rather, the Denver Developmental Screening Test, the standard by which infants have been measured since at least the 1970s (and whose last major modification, in 1992, was aimed primarily at language skills) were devised in another era, when babies slept on their stomachs.

The major early benchmarks, rolling over, crawling, and pulling up, all seem to occur later in infants who sleep on their back. The “delay” in these achievements turns out to be merely temporary. Large-scale studies have found that by a year of age, all babies are back on the same old track: They all seem to be walking and performing at the same pace as these “historic” standards.

Those researchers who carried out these surveys recommend keeping babies on their stomach while awake in order to develop the muscles (forearm, upper arm, and trunk) that aren’t used while asleep.

Social Development: 7-10 Months

A sense of the permanence of things, indiscriminate babbling, learning to use his hands to put things in his mouth or transfer them to the other hand—they all mean one thing: He’s getting ready for the world.

He’s learning the rules of the world around him. As he develops a sense of the world, he also develops a sense of his place in the world, which is by Mama’s and Dada’s side. (As an aside, this is also the time when he’ll start saying those words.

Indiscriminately, but he’ll figure out who’s who in time.) Then comes the next milestone: stranger anxiety.

This clinginess develops just as he gets into toddling and cruising, which is when he gets into what could be a lifelong dilemma: not knowing what he wants.

Social Development: Vision

Babies see what they need to: Mommy’s face. Even Mommy’s breast is probably a blur, as it is too close to focus on. Her vision improves as she gets older and interacts more with the world. In the first several weeks of life, only bright or dark objects are really distinguishable, which is why most infant decorations in stores are bright, contrasting-color mobiles or fold-out books.

Your baby can track a bright object from the side to the center of her visual field and will study faces that are at the right distance (about 10 or 12 inches).

After two or three months, babies can follow an object from side to side and turn their head to keep it in view.

Language Development: 10-12 Months

From consonants, if s a quick step to full words. Her first few words may not be very clear, and may sound a lot like the syllables you’ve been hearing for a while: “ball,” “cat,” “dog.” In my book, “ma” and “da” do not count as a first word.

Once it sounds like she’s said her first word, like “ball,” show her the ball and get her to repeat it, both to encourage her, and to practice her for when Dad comes home. He won’t believe it until he hears it himself. (And you can be sure she won’t perform over the phone or in front of the video camera.)

Once the first word comes out, usually somewhere between eleven and fifteen months, a lot more start coming soon after.

By three months after her first word, she should have a big vocabulary of fifty or so words; after six months, she’ll be saying two-word phrases: “bye-bye” or “all done” or “no more.”

Language Development: 6-9 Months

Saying consonants requires more coordination of mouth and tongue muscles than just saying “ah” or “ee”. Try it—say “la” (a flick of the tongue) and “ee” (a simple breath) and you’ll understand the challenge baby faces in scaling the jump up to consonants.

But once she’s mastered this task, they all start coming out at once: “ba” and “ah-gaaa” and “da” and “ma.” She’ll probably say “da” before “ma” only she doesn’t necessarily match the sound to Dad or Mom. (I think that back in the Stone Age—or whenever—dads would stand around grunting “dat mean me” and club the ground with their mastodon bone if anyone disagreed. Otherwise “mom” would be known as “dad”.)

Once she masters the trick to repeating a given sound, she may attach a meaning to it.

language Development: 3-5 Months

You will, for the rest of your life, remember her first “real” word, but by then she has been talking to you for quite some time already. The first sounds your baby makes to communicate (aside from cries) are the long exhalations: “eeeehh” and “aaaa-aaahh.” This is cooing, an expression of happiness or contentment.

It may mean “I want to play” or “I like eating.” Pay close attention, and you’ll discover that different sounds mean different things. A string of “aah-aahs” may mean she wants to eat, and she may make a distinctly different sound to ask you for some play time.

The more closely attuned you are to these verbal cues, the better her language development will be.