Crawl TM Learning Cub

The infants physical development starts with the head and then moves to other parts of the body. From the very beginning babies are very curious and are ready to start exploring. Infants necks are unable to support the weight of the head when the baby is sat up straight. They are able to turn their heads left to right when laying down. Infants are able to close their fist.

Each child’s physical, social, emotional, and intellectual and language development will be looked at through age stages. All of these categories are as important as each other and can each have a substantial impact on the child’s full adult potential.

The learning opportunities will advance as the child acquires knowledge through sensory experiences and manipulating objects while interacting with the plush puppy as they grow. The puppy is labeled with various body parts to help with hand, tummy, belly and foot recognition There is a cause and effect learning experience as the child associates the squeezing of the hand which in turn will initiate a response from the puppy. The squeezing technique the toy requires to further the child’s learning is also working on fine and gross motor development throughout the use of the toy.

A child develops through its whole life. They can develop; physically, linguistically, intellectually, socially and behaviourally. “Physical development is the way in which the body increases in skill and becomes more complex in its performance” [Meggitt, 2000, Page 2]. Twenty five days after conception; the body of the chid has developed immensely from the small fertilised egg. Up to birth the foetus mainly develops physically however once the child is born the child then begins the long process of development. Not only do the gross motor skills and the fine motor skills develop on the baby, but the sensory development also widens on the child.

There are many factors that can influence the development of infants and toddlers. Two of the largest are biological and environmental influences. Biological influences can include gender, prenatal care, and the mother’s prior states of health. Environmental influences are widely ranged and can include, but are not limited to, income, housing, teratogens, and stimuli. While these two influences are different, they sometimes interlock, creating a cycle within each other.

Children have a lot of factors that influence their physical changes. For example, after preschool years children start to lose their baby teeth, and the skeleton begins to grow. During the preschool years, when the children grow slower than

All babies and young children can show different rates of development. It is often linked to experiences during conception, pregnancy and childbirth.

Infancy is defined as the period from birth to 12 months of age (Kyle, 2008). Growth and development changes which occur in the first year of life are numerous and dramatic (Kyle, 2008). The first year of life is an extraordinary and captivating time in the human lifespan (Kyle, 2008). Infants reveal vast amounts of learning in the psychosocial and cognitive, language and communication, and social/emotional domains (Kyle, 2008). The average weight of a newborn is 7lb. 8oz. (Kyle, 2008). Most infants double their birth weight by the time they are 4 to 6 months, weighing an average of 16.5 lbs. (Kyle, 2008). The average height in most newborns is 19 to 21 inches long at birth, however the first 6 months; length increases by 1 inch per month (Kyle, 2008). On average, the first teeth begin to erupt between the ages of 6 to 8 months (Kyle, 2008).

|Infancy |Body weight doubles by the fourth month after birth and| |Crying and contentment |

In the eyes of new loving parents, babies are perfect in every way. Perhaps, mothers and fathers count fingers and toes of their new baby, carefully inspecting their child for any deformities. After finding all body parts in just the right place, and hearing the beautiful sound of the baby’s first cry, parents deem babies perfectly healthy in every way. But there could be something lying beneath the physical appearance that could be harmful to the new baby.

All children develop at different rates, information and sources are only guidelines. These help to monitor what children can and can't do at certain stages in their lives. It also helps to plan effectively to ensure the child gets the attention they need, in the areas in which they find challenging. Physical development follows a definite sequence. A baby's physical development may begin with rolling over then sit up, crawl, walk, run. Another may sit up, walk, run missing out rolling over & crawling. Even

Infants are a special cohort of a population in the society. Children between the ages of five months to two years are at a stage where they start familiarizing with their surroundings and have different reactions to situations. The surrounding where an infant grows greatly determines his or her development. The primary determinant of the development of infants is the parent-infant interaction (Crain, 2015). The first bond or relation of a child is with its biological parents or guardians in the case of orphaned children.

In the first thousand days, a proper nutrition, family support and in the environments where child is raised play critical role in child development. So, people need to be educated that giving a hundred percent early life child development will leads them to live a successful

It is imperative for children to develop with healthy nutrition during their first five years of life in order to sustain a healthy well being. When a child experiences stunted growth, they often have difficulties learning and

“As infants grows older, they form close and enduring emotional attachments with the important people in their lives”. Reference 1. This essay will discuss the developmental period of infancy. Infancy is categorised as the development stage of a human from birth to 2 years of age. Infancy is a time in the human life that involves rapid growth and extraordinary changes in the first two years of life. Infants not only grow dramatically physically, their brains develop, and there is the start of locomotor skill development as well as the start of reflexes and sensory growth. The essay will also discuss anxiety and the role it plays with infants in regards to physical, cognitive and psychosocial stages an infant experiences. This essay will argue that the attachment of an infant to its mother is highly important. It will discuss the different way in which attachment affects an infant. This essay will discuss typical development milsetones in the first year years of human life. It will then go to analysis the relationship between infants being in day care or at home with their mother. T The typical physical development of a babys starts at borth. When a Baby is born on average it will weigh 3.4 kilograms and measure to be around 51 centimeters. A baby is typically 25 percent of its final adult weight when it is born but by its