Your baby gradually enters a magical stage. He wants to start learning and the best way to stimulate him is to “awaken” his senses through play.
1. All ears. Talk to your baby a lot, sing to him, play music, show him what a bell, a bell, a xylophone sounds like? You can also show him a sound toy. Let him have it for a while and then hide it under a cloth. Ask her in surprise: Where is she? and help him discover it by lifting the cloth and making it sound again.
2. Look who looks at you. During the first months, the baby’s eyesight is still immature. Its accuracy will improve if you show objects with high contrast in black and white. Later, surround it with bright colors both in your room and on your clothes and toys. Of course, he will love to recognize you. So get close to his face and let him watch yours as you smile or grimace at him, he may try to imitate you! With all this, the little one learns to fix his eyes, to calculate distances and depths, to follow the movement of things and people.
3. Matter of tact. Caresses, kisses and tickles cannot be missing in a stimulating game session, just like massages. Always do them in a room with a pleasant temperature and after having rubbed your hands to warm them up. Slide one with little pressure from the child’s neck down to the coccyx, and just when you reach the end, the other begins to slide in the same direction. Your hands-on his back transmit security since you use them to hold him.
4. With pleasure. Bite, suck, savor? everything goes to his mouth. Normal, the tongue is full of nerve endings that provide the baby with information about the taste and texture of things. It fosters this eagerness for research by placing clean and safe objects at your fingertips, among which one cannot miss a? Delicious? teether.
5. Does it hit my nose? Baby is passionate about intrigue and will have a great time observing how you look for things guided by the nose. Where is the soap?? Where’s the perfume? Where are the cookies?? Ask with the baby in your arms while you walk around the house smelling the environment. Exchange questioning looks with him and when you get to the place you are looking for, he exclaims: Here it is?!? and bring it closer so you can smell it. You will like the game even more if the search ends with: Where’s the baby? Sniff the air, sink your nose into your tummy and say, “Here’s the baby!”
Your baby gradually enters a magical stage. He wants to start learning and the best way to stimulate him is to “awaken” his senses through play.