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From an international expert on infant-parent communication, Your Baby Is Speaking To You is destined to change into a parenting classic. Through intimate get right of entry to to babies and their families, Dr. Kevin Nugent and acclaimed photographer Abelardo Morell capture the amazingly precocious communications strategies babies demonstrate from the moment they’re born.
Your Baby Is Speaking to You illustrates the full range of behaviorsâearly smiling to startling, feeding to sleeping, listening to your voice and recognizing your face. The latest researchâincluding information on subtle and fleeting behaviors not seen or explained in any other bookâilluminates the meaning of the things babies do that concern and delight new parents:
  â the language of yawning
  â the rich range of cries, and how to be aware their meanings
  â babyâs earliest âsleep smilesâ and sleep states, and what they signify
Your Baby Is Speaking To You delivers the information parents crave in gentle, accessible style even as giving parents the confidence they wish to respond to their own babyâs way of communicating all the way through the first actual astonishing days and the months beyond.Â
From an international expert on infant-parent communication, Your Baby Is Speaking To You is destined to change into a parenting classic. Through intimate get right of entry to to babies and their families, Dr. Kevin Nugent and acclaimed photographer Abelardo Morell capture the amazingly precocious communications strategies babies demonstrate from the moment they’re born.
Your Baby Is Speaking to You illustrates the full range of behaviors—early smiling to startling, feeding to sleeping, listening to your voice and recognizing your face. The latest research—including information on subtle and fleeting behaviors not seen or explained in any other book—illuminates the meaning of the things babies do that concern and delight new parents:
– the language of yawning
– the rich range of cries, and how to be aware their meanings
– baby’s earliest “sleep smiles” and sleep states, and what they signify
Your Baby Is Speaking To You delivers the information parents crave in gentle, accessible style even as giving parents the confidence they wish to respond to their own baby’s way of communicating all the way through the first actual astonishing days and the months beyond.
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Differences in temperament are obvious in the way newborns move and in their activity levels. | For both the mother and father, touching and holding their baby close stimulates a release of oxytocin, which fills the parent with feelings of deep tenderness. |
Nowhere is nascent empathy more evident than in the relationship between twins. | To start with glance you might mistake an expression of overstimulation for a look of intense interest. |