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Helping Your Baby’s Development

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We talked about when will your baby walk yesterday and I mentioned that it is better not to rush them. Your baby develops at his or her own personal rate. Still there are things you can do to help facilitate your baby’s development without rushing them or pushing them beyond what they are ready for. How Can I Help My Baby? When your baby begins to try and pull him or herself up to stand, you may have to help them figure out how to sit back down again. It sounds funny, but remember – your baby has never walked … Continue reading →

When Will They Walk?

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As milestones go, when your baby begins to walk is considered the hurdle between infant and toddler. After all, a toddler is someone who toddles around and until your baby takes those first few precarious and precious steps – they are still an infant. Too many parents are so eager for each stage that they live and breathe by the recommendations in books like What to Expect in The First Year. There’s nothing wrong with these recommendations, but while some babies are beginning to toddle at 9 months, other babies may take until they are 18 months. My daughter was … Continue reading →

Your Child’s Development Pace

I wonder sometimes what is the right pace. My daughter didn’t start walking until she was 18 months old. She didn’t really run until she was 2. I know a lot of other parents who talk about how early their children started, but my daughter was a late bloomer. I read a lot of books about what to expect when your expecting and then what to expect in the first year. It’s important to remember that all of these books and advice pieces are talking about ‘averages’. What does average mean? Average is a single value (as a mean, mode, … Continue reading →

Pictures Capture Milestones

Three walls in my house are covered nearly floor to ceiling in nothing but pictures. There are pictures of family, friends, moments and more prevalently our daughter. As I was making coffee this morning, I leaned back against the kitchen counter and started looking at this wall of fame. The majority of the pictures on the wall track my daughter’s progress from about an hour after she was born to her current age of five. The larger parts of these are from that first day mark the milestones in her life. The first day she was with us. Her first … Continue reading →