Know Your Baby

Through a process of mutual adaptation, mother and infant establish a pattern of meaningful interactions and build the foundation for trust. Infancy is a stage of strikingly rapid development. During the first year of life, the infant's birth weight almost triples. The baby seems to grow before one's very eyes. Parents will remark that they go to work in the morning, and their baby seems to have changed by the time they return in the evening! No wonder parents want to capture this rapid changes of their baby's growth for remembrance. They would not want to miss out any baby photographs contest either. To parents, their babies are always the cutest and loveliest of all. They will submit their baby photographs to Baby Photo Gallery and they would want to participate in baby forum, upload babies video, read about baby health topics or participate in parenting discussions and so on.

Most infants are marvelously flexible, capable of adapting to any of the varied social environments into which they may be born. From the day babies are born, they have the natural ability to cry. The cries are the language they convey to the people around them, which says they need something. Every cries has its reasons and being the caregiver, you have to know what it means. The instinct and natural bond establish between the child and the mother has the special calming effect which naturally 'tell' a mother what the child wants. To those people who just know the duo, they would be sometimes wonder how the mother knows what the baby is crying for. But it is indeed a fact. The mother was the one whom once shared the same nutrients, sacrificed her body for his/her existence and allow his/her excretions to be passed on to her own body. The mother petted him/her, talk and sing to him/her as soon as the tiny little 'dot' existed in her womb. If the mother does not understand the child, who would understand the child more than her?