How To Find Baby Development Activities By Age

Baby activities by age Early morning wake ups. Bodies not our own. Hormones awry. Cuddles for days. We are the champions of tiny humans. We are the givers of love even when we have nothing left for ourselves. We are the warriors and survivors of tantrums and meltdowns (our own, too). We are the deliverers of sustenance: whether from our own bodies, from a can, from organic leafy greens or from frozen, prepared, or boxed preservatives. This early parenthood thing is a beast. It’s amazing and insane and leaves us both full and empty in the same moment. As a mother of two tiny humans myself, I’m also in the trenches. As a pediatric speech-language pathologist, I carry with me a few extra tools for connecting with tiny humans. What to do with a baby It’s a crazy time, for sure. But when we understand more about how infants and toddlers learn and develop, we feel more empowered to do the big job of parenting tiny humans. Here’s the secret sauce: you don’t have to buy anything to support your baby. You don’t have to spend money, time, and energy you don’t have to support your baby. In this episode, I’d like to share two conversations I had with new parents who have recently joined the ranks of parenthood. I think it makes me feel better because we’re just trying to survive, right? But at the same time I know I’m doing something to support his development. It makes me feel better every week… I think in essence the book [Understanding Your Baby] makes me feel better that I’m doing something so he can develop and not just, you know, like change his diaper and feed him and talk to him, there’s other little things I could do. Lisa Dou, Mother of a 3-month old, Nurse Practitioner Ayelet: So you said your baby is three months old. Lisa: Almost three months. He’s 11 weeks this week. Ayelet: And then, if you could just tell me the story of how you came upon the book because it’s… Lisa: Yeah. So I work with Dr Wu in Los Altos. I’m a nurse practitioner, so I think a few weeks before I went on leave, she was like, hey, you should read this, you know, she said she flipped through it. She said she thought it’d be a good resource since I’m a new mom and she thought it would be useful. So my mom actually had a daycare before she retired, so she was in child development, so she was helping me the first eight weeks. So she flipped through it. She was like, Oh, you know, she really used a lot of the resources I used when I was in school. So it was mom approved. Ayelet: Mom and professional-approved, yeah! Lisa: It was great. So we, you know, I would try different things every week. It’s hard to kind of look up because I’m not a Peds NP [Pediatric Nurse Practitioner], so I don’t remember from school, like what the different steps…. so it was just nice to have something where okay, I feel like I’m doing something for his development I’m not just caring for him – you know, using the stuff around me to help him grow or develop. Ayelet: Absolutely. So it’s kind of neat because you had it actually from day one, which I think is unique because of course some people...