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Birth to One Year
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beckyw
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December 12, 2006
- Learn the basics. How do you bathe a baby? Change a diaper? You can learn. Read, ask your doctor or another expert, talk to your parents and other parents.
- Love your baby. Give all you've got! Talk to your baby, touch, hold, hug, kiss, smile, and enjoy! It's impossible to spoil a baby! A baby is a tiny work in progress, and it's important that your baby's early experiences are as positive as you can make them.
- Discover what's what. Pay close attention to all the sounds (cooing, babbling, gurgling, and crying) that your baby makes, as well as facial expressions and body movements. Each one means something different. This is how your baby talks to you.
- Always handle your baby with love and gentleness. The pressures of parenting are tremendous. It's difficult to feel patient and loving when the baby wakes you up for the third time in one night, and you have to go to work the next day. All parents need ways to relax. Don't take out your stress on your baby. Your baby is too little to understand your needs.
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