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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..

Premature Babies:

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines prematurity as babies born before 37 weeks from the first day of the last menstrual period.

In England and Wales in 2005, there were 11,657 infants born at less than 33 weeks of gestation, more than 90% of whom survived the immediate postpartum period.

Simply labelling all babies born before 37 weeks as premature fails to illustrate the marked gradation in terms of severity of the problem with increasing prematurity:

• A baby born at 36 weeks will probably be a little slow to feed.
• A baby born before 33 weeks will have more serious problems including, possibly, immature lungs.
• Birth before 28 weeks causes very significant problems but the survival rate is quite remarkable.

It is not uncommon for babies to be both early and to have intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR).

Premature Babies and their future development

Language Development:
Human language development has intrigued kings and scholars alike for many centuries.

It was recorded by the Greek historian Herodotus that Egyptian King Psamtik, in the 7th century B.C., experimented with babies to determine the “mother” tongue of humanity.

He suggested Hebrew was the original language, and other researchers have found, through similar experimentation, that Swedish was the original language.

Modern researchers, however, have concentrated on charting the path of human language development. Human infant brains’ language centers are wired to assimilate the human voice, and in fact they prefer to hear it over other sounds.

Language development, therefore, appears to be an outgrowth of an innate schema, and that a baby will generate language as it is acquired.

Don’t let speech delay hold back your child’s development. Detection of speech delay at any age can make learning to talk easier.

Infancy Noises

Cognitive Development in Children:

This is the first stage of cognitive development in Piaget’s theory. It is a stage in which infants have an understanding of the world through sensory experiences with motoric and physical challenges. At the beginning of this stage, an infant is at the instinctual and reflexive stage, and at the end is at the symbolic thought stage.

The Primary Circular Reactions is Logic:
Piaget believed that deductive logic becomes important during the formal operational stage. Deductive logic requires the ability to use a general principle to determine a specific outcome. This type of thinking involves hypothetical situations and is often required in science and mathematics.

The Secondary Circular Reactions Phase: This is when habits are forming in babies from about four to eight months.

In this stage, babies will be able to move away from self-preoccupation and become more object oriented. They are able to repeat actions that bring about pleasurable results. This stage is associated with coordination between vision and prehension. There are three new abilities at this stage, which include intentional grasping for a wanted object, circular reactions of a secondary nature, and the difference between means and ends.

Toddler’s Development:

Your cuddly little crying (and eating and pooping) machine of the past year is finally a toddler, but getting your increasingly independent child to potty-train, behave in public, and actually like vegetables is no small feat.

Toddlerhood brings as many frustrations (is that crayon on the wall?), as it does joys (“Look Mom! I did it all by yourself!”), so you’ll need a helping hand along the way. Here’s your month by month guide to toddler development, including the best way to handle everything from toddler tantrums, fears, and friendships, to picky eating habits and sleeping through the night.

How can you encourage your child’s fine motor skills?

As any parent who’s ever heard “Me do it!” knows, toddlers don’t need much prodding to try new things. Of course, your child won’t be able to do everything right away. But with encouragement, support, and lots of time to learn, he might surprise you.If a toddler is too chubby or a little overweight it may hurt his or her feet and legs to walk.

The best thing you can do is buy a walker for your baby. This helps her build up those leg muscles, but takes off some of the pressure.

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).

Brain Develop In The Womb:

Your child actually started learning when you were carrying him as a baby in your womb. Do not get astonished on hearing that.

It is true that he begins to learn when he is in the womb.

Prenatal development of your babies brain helps him to understand the outer world when he opens his eyes for the first time and gets exposed to the warm blessings of the sun.

The home that the little ones grow up in has a major impact on the infants’ brain development. Those babies that grow up in a stimulating, loving and encouraging environment that in the same time is safe will have a better basis for their later development.

The development of your baby in the womb is a wonderful process. We have compiled a month-by-month timescale of what happens in the womb. But keep in mind that different pregnancies do develop at different rates. Also, bear in mind that the method doctors and midwives use to date your pregnancy means that you could be around two weeks out from this timescale.

Basic Cognitive Development:

A developmental stage in which a child has little ability with language or the use of symbols but experiences the world through sensation and movement. The first of four stages in child psychiatrist Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, the sensorimotor stage lasts from birth to about age two.

Cognitive development refers to how a person perceives, thinks, and gains understanding of his or her world. Among the areas of cognitive development are information processing, intelligence, reasoning, language development, and memory. Cognitive development is the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood.

Piaget’s theory is not without its detractors. Later research suggests it’s too rigid, at least in its age designations, and that children often develop sooner than Piaget gave them credit for.

On the flip side, it appears many people move more slowly through the four stages and some never manage to master the fourth and final stage of development at all, leading to further questions about how heavily biological development features into the equation.

A baby weighs about three kilograms at birth, and loses 150-200 g in the first three to four days.

After that he grows rapidly and gains about 25 to 30 g a day for the first three months and a little less rapidly after that. The widely accepted formula that a baby doubles his birth weight at five months and trebles it at one year is by and large true even though some smaller babies weighing around two and half kilograms at birth may be four times their birth weight at one year of age.

The receptive language, the understanding of the word of the others, has a gradual development, beginning to the 6 months. Nevertheless, the expressive language, the production of words, moves quickly after its beginning in around a year of age, with a “explosion of the vocabulary of the acquisition of words fast-in half of the second year.

This extension of the vocabulary is closely tie to the ability to repeat the words and allows to the fast acquisition of skill in its norms pronunciation.

Age — weight growth per week

• 0-3 months — 200 g
• 4-6 months — 150 g
• 7-9 months — 100 g
• 10-12 months — 50-75 g

Definition- “Children’s Social Development”

What is social development? Social development refers the development of social skills and emotional maturity that are needed to forge relationships and relate to others. Often developing empathy and understanding the needs of others is also included in the area of social development.

This involves learning the values, knowledge and skills that enable children to relate to others effectively and to contribute in positive ways to family, school and the community. This kind of learning is passed on to children directly by those who care for and teach them, as well as indirectly through social relationships within the family or with friends, and through children’s participation in the culture around them. Through their relationships with others and their growing awareness of social values and expectations, children build a sense of who they are and of the social roles available to them.

As they develop socially children both respond to the influences around them and play an active part in shaping their relationships. In order to develop socially, children need to interact with their peers and adults in a socially acceptable way. Developing good social skills is necessary for them to be abler to eventually form healthy relationships and fit into various social scenarios comfortably.