The development of the senses plays a very important role in the child's physical and intellectual development. Because the senses are the only tools for babies to collide and explore things. What should parents do to support their child in sensory development?
By the time your baby is born, touch and hearing are complete but other senses like sight take several months to reach an adult level. Parents can be involved in helping their baby reach these important sensory developmental milestones.
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1. Visual stimulation
Your baby sees contrasts, like black and white, and makes it easy to see large objects in close range. When you breastfeed, your baby can see the mother's face. By 6 weeks of age, the eye muscles are stronger and the baby can see 4 to 6 meters away. In a few months, the baby will be able to see depth and this will help the process of understanding and exploring the world around them.
To encourage your baby to see and begin to see things more clearly, you can decorate the room with bright colors and large decorative shapes. Change the direction of the crib or rotate the baby to lie in many directions to help your baby see the difference at different angles. In addition, you can also play games such as howling, finding objects with your child to help support the development of eye muscles.
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2. Help your baby listen to the world
Hearing is formed when a baby is still in the womb. So, from the moment of birth, the baby can recognize the familiar voice of the mother. Babies are also easily startled when there are strange sounds. This is very normal because young children are very sensitive to sound changes. As they get older, they will focus on listening to their parents talking and find ways to imitate the first words in their language.
There is nothing better with a baby's hearing than their own parents' voices. Talk to your baby a lot so that he can develop his listening skills as well as his speaking skills, mom. Mothers often talk to their babies in a chirping voice, this is also a good way for babies to distinguish different tones.
3. Give your child a delicate touch
Touch is the most complete developmental organ when the baby is born. And this is extremely important to unite mother and baby. The mother's warm hugs and comfort will make the baby feel safe and secure. Mothers often wrap their babies in towels to create a sense of security as if they were still in the womb. And of course, the baby will begin his journey of discovery through touch, with the main point of contact being the mouth and tongue and then the hands and feet. So, mothers do not panic if babies lick or chew anything they can handle. Just make sure what babies touch is safe and clean.
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4. What does baby's sense of smell need?
From the moment of birth, children can smell many different scents. Babies smell their mothers on the first day and the smells of others for a week afterwards. The most distinctive scent for your baby is the smell of breast milk and the baby can distinguish it from the smell of formula. This can cause problems when your baby is 3 or 4 months old, when you practice feeding your baby through the night. If you put your baby to sleep, he or she may cry for a feed because of the smell of breast milk.
While you are still breastfeeding your baby, you should not use scented cosmetics as it can create a feeling of unfamiliarity to your baby. For the development of smell, the mother just needs to be herself without any additional scent.
5. Help your baby become a gourmet
Your baby's favorite taste in the early part of life is sweet. Your baby will not like sour and bitter taste. Until about the 4th month, the baby knows the difference between spicy and salty. When a mother eats something, the flavor of that dish can go into the milk stream and through it, the baby loves to taste different tastes. So, you should eat a variety to stimulate your child's taste buds.
When your baby is a little older, moms should start offering them solid foods with a variety of foods. Getting acquainted early will help your baby to be less picky about food.
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