Early gross motor (or whole body) movements such as crawling and walking are exciting developments and clear markers for parents watching their child’s development. But what happens when a milestone isn’t reached, or the movement itself isn’t what a parent is expecting? Babies arrive in the world with inborn movements, including reflexes. Other motor skills ...
Talking to your baby or toddler shapes the structure of their brain, my colleagues and I have discovered. For the study, which is published in The Journal of Neuroscience, we enrolled 163 children at either six months of age or 30 months of age. The children wore a small audio recorder in a specially made ...
We like to think of babies as tiny versions of ourselves. But babies aren’t simply miniature adults, especially when it comes to coping in the heat. Babies are at greater risk of overheating when the temperature is high and need different cooling strategies than those that work for adults. Parents have long covered prams and ...
Motherly instincts are not limited to humans, as has been seen in many instances. Almost all animals, including primates such as gorillas, possess maternal instincts. In a recent incident that has touched the hearts of animal lovers, a zoo gorilla mom brought her baby to meet a human mother and her newborn. The heart-touching event ...
Parents of infants with sleep trouble have an increased risk of daytime dysfunction, including work and driving performance. New Flinders research has also measured the effects of sleep disruption from waking up regularly to deal with text messages during the night. The research was among the key presentations at the national Sleep DownUnder 2019 conference ...
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