
Infant Stimulation
Infant stimulation can help improve your baby's attention span, memory, curiosity and nervous system development. In addition, stimulating your baby's senses will enable him to reach developmental milestones faster, as well as aid in the developme...
Why Is Infant Stimulation Important?
In the first years of a baby’s life, the brain is busy building its wiring system. Activity in the brain creates tiny electrical connections called synapses. The amount of stimulation an infant receives directly affects how many synapses are formed.
Playing With Your Baby Makes Her Smart
You can play simple games with your baby that enhance the development of her brain. Infant stimulation games consist of activities that stimulate her senses and jumpstart her intellectual as well as physical learning.
How Much Infant Stimulation Is Too Much?
Some babies are more subtle than others, but you’ll get to know your baby’s own cues. Usually when you are playing with a baby, he’ll maintain eye contact with you. The overstimulated baby will avert his gaze and look away. He may try to push you ...
Visual Stimulation For Newborns
Your newborn baby can hear your voice, feel your touch, smell your scent, and taste anything you put in his mouth. While a baby’s vision may be one of the least developed senses at birth, visual input during the early months may have the most prof...
Stimulating Your Baby's Senses With Sounds
Babies use the sense of hearing to take in an enormous amount of information about the world. Find out how they use their keen ears to learn language and develop listening and other communication skills and how the ability to hear stimulates baby ...
Stimulating Your Baby's Sense Of Taste
Your baby uses her mouth and her sense of taste as a way of exploring, learning and making sense of food and the world around her. Here are 12 ways you can stimulate her tastebuds.
Stimulating Your Baby's Sense Of Smell
Early childhood is the perfect time to introduce a nutritious diet and stimulate a baby’s sense of smell and taste, both of which greatly influence eating habits.
Stimulating Your Baby’S Sense Of Touch
A baby’s touch is the most developed of senses from birth and helps to shape that precious early bond between you and your baby. Encouraging the sense of touch can also help baby reach key development milestones...