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Info Centre - Babycare and your baby's development
- Baby massage
- Baby massage is a great way of strengthening your bond with your baby and can help you become more confident with handling your baby and better at recognising their needs, as this page explains.
- Bath-time tips for new parents
- Bathtime Tips suggests different ways a parent can clean their baby - whether topping and tailing, in the sink, in the bath or in a small baby bath.
- Car travel/car seats
- There are a number of safety, and legal, requirements which pregnant women travelling in cars, and parents taking babies or small children on car journeys, should be aware of, as this page explains.
- Communicating with babies and toddlers
- Babies arrive ready to communicate. Newborn babies communicate with crying, bodily movements and facial expressions. This non-verbal communication may be basic but your baby is already 'talking' to you, as this page explains.
- Crying baby
- Listening to your inconsolable baby can be very stressful. But does how you care for a baby make any difference to how much they cry? This page looks at a study into different styles of parenting and their effect on babies' crying.
- Cup-drinking
- Babies and children need to drink regularly - but what should they be drinking? And how should they drink it? This page looks at the options.
- First days: life with a new baby
- This information here is taken from NCT's booklet 'First days'. It explains what it's like during the first few days and weeks, and offers some suggestions that might help during this time.
- Growing and moving
- Although babies get more mobile at different times and at different rates, depending on a number of factors, it's often at around 6-9 months that the first attempts at locomotion - such as rolling, shuffling and crawling - begin.
- How can I tell if my baby's thriving?
- This sheet describes various useful signs for checking whether a baby seems to be growing well, and what can be done if she is not, as well as providing information about weight gain and weight charts.
- Life with your 'settled' baby
- During the three to six months period, babies are sometimes referred to as 'settled' as this is the stage at which they generally become more predictable and manageable, as this page explains.
- Making a decision
- Making a decision
- Play
- As a parent you can help your child enjoy learning through play. This page looks at the many different ways you can play with your baby or your toddler.
- Potty-training
- Getting your baby or toddler to pee and poo when and where it is appropriate, and stay clean and dry, is one of the holy grails of the early years of parenthood. This page explores the options.
- Secure and insecure attachment
- This page gives an overview of 'attachment theory' and shows how rather than being overwhelmed or unnerved by research into the effects of early babycare, it can help parents to feel more confident about their parenting.
- Separation anxiety
- Separation anxiety is a perfectly normal part of your baby's development; however, that doesn't make it any easier to deal with. This page explores why it happens and looks at ways you can minimise the stress to both you and your baby.
- Teething
- This page provides information about teething and how you can help lay the foundations for your child's future dental health.
- What's in a nappy?
- This sheet contains information about how to tell whether your baby is feeding well or not from the contents of their nappy.
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