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| Your Baby's Focus
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Your Baby's Inner Focus
When your new baby is resting comfortably in your arms, support your baby's spine in a  C-curve position. In these early months, quiet times together encourage bonding, resting and digesting. During your baby's fussy times, you will notice that he calms down when you are holding him close to you and you are humming, cooing, or singing to him. In these little sound interactions the sound vibrations resonating from your chest are soothing.
Your Baby's Outer Focus
Your one-month-old baby's vision is most acute at approximately the  distance from your chest level to your face. When your baby is alert, his ability to actively focus on your face provides a clue to the development of your baby's visual attention. By following your animated facial expressions, your baby is using his eyes as information gatherers. Although fleeting, it is a thrilling moment when you notice your baby is looking at you.
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Your Amazing Body Moving
ME - Movement Essentials for New Moms
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What is unique about our approach is that we have provided a Baby Guide so you can follow your baby's movement development in the first year and you can also explore these essential movement patterns outlined for adults in our Book. Since these early developmental movement patterns underlie all adult movement, you'll learn how to coordinate your body in new ways. Before long you'll discover your movement is more graceful, efficient and effortless leaving you feeling energized and refreshed ready to join in your baby's spontaneous, movement play everyday.
Keep a Beginner's Mind!
Did you ever think that your baby may teach you more efficient ways to move? You may discover when your baby begins creeping on hands-and-knees that your movement isn't as coordinated and efficient as your baby's! A new mom playing a 'Chase and Catch Game' with her eight-month-old baby noticed she wasn't creeping in a contralateral pattern (opposite arm and leg) but her baby was. You will gain many benefits by learning from your baby and practising these cross-crawl movements together.
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Balancing Between Stability and Mobility
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Moving Up.....
Moving upward is a balancing act between stability and  mobility. Your baby's split-second postural adjustments indicate he is able to control his movements and anticipate the outcome of his actions. Babies align their body with furniture, fences and climbers in both their indoor and outdoor surroundings to pull themselves upward to achieve their vertical posture.
Tip: Let your baby pull himself up. He will feel so 'BIG' when he pulls himself from the ground up to standing on his own two feet.
.....Before Squatting Down
Babies learn what it feels like to balance  in the upright position before squatting downward. The information babies receive from their body while also surveying the spatial layout of their environment contributes to their developing body confidence in their physical explorations.
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