Between birth and 3 months a child can only communicate through sound. This means they will cry when basic needs require attention, for example if their hungry, tired or distressed. A child of this age will make a variety of different ‘happy’ sounds like cooing, and will respond to music and different sounds. They also watch their careers face closely, especially the mouth and try to mimic its movements.
Between six and twelve months baby will start to enjoy making new and different sounds and will display their feelings in crying/laughing/squealing.
In the initial few months babies will recognise familiar voices and faces, they will try to 'people please' and bay for attention by performing for their audience through laughter and giggles. They will enjoy playing games with others such as peek a boo.
Babies from the age of 0-5 months react to loud sounds and turn their heads towards where the sound is coming from for example a toy or voice. Babies this age watch your face when you speak and make noises when they here pleasurable or displeasurable sounds such and laughing ,crying and
The physical development of a baby in its first six months of life shows limited range of movement but the beginnings of an ability to respond to stimulus around them. They show their reaction to people, sounds and movement by turning their head toward whatever attracts their attention. They will watch an adult’s face whilst feeding, but have already begun to shows signs of recognition as they will smile when familiar people are around them either because they can see them
Babies at three months have now grown in both height and weight. They are wearing new sets of clothes and have changed in many ways. Some babies have learned the difference between night and day and are able to sleep through the night, which is great help for parents. Babies are also crying less and most parents are getting better at knowing at what their cries mean. Babies are starting to sleep a little less and are far more alert. They may smile quite often and show that they know the sound of their parents’ voices and movements. Babies’ bodies are also developing. They are able to lift their heads up and look about when they are put on their tummies.
Language Development: Baby will make a lot of noises, often happy sounds and when they are distressed and upset they need to hear a familiar sound such as a mums voice.
Babies enjoy rhythm time and peek a boo games of hiding and repetition. The use of blurring and babbling will occur. The bonds with parents are
Communication between a baby and parent/carer starts from birth with babies crying to let the adult know they are hungry, tired or distressed. At 1 month a baby should coo when content. At 3 months a baby should smile back
As the baby reaches 7 months they are starting to respond to voices that they are hearing this is helped by the development of their emotional brain this could be in the way how you talk to them like what emotions you make whilst talking to them.
Babies prefer the sound of humans interacting to other sounds and from this, they quickly learn to recognise and identify their mother’s voice. Babies form their first relationship through emotional attachments with their mother or main carer. The first year of a baby’s life is a period of incredible growth, and a baby’s brain goes through critical periods during which stimulation is needed for proper development. During the babies first years, visual stimuli or verbal language is necessary for areas of the brain to grow and without this growth, a child’s vision or speaking abilities might be impaired. Infants tend to have different cries for hunger or pain, as well as making other noises. These abilities show your child is gaining communication and pre-language skills. Infants from birth to 6 months will forget about objects they cannot see however they begin to explore objects they can see and grab by putting them in their mouths. They will also follow moving objects with their eyes and look around at nearby objects. Infants in this stage will turn to look at a source of sound. These developmental milestones show a baby’s brain is developing and they are gaining new skills. From 7 to 12 months, infants also learn the idea of cause and effect, and they might repeat an action that causes a
Don't underestimate children's ability to communicate even though their verbal language skills may be nonexistent or minimal (Gonzalez-Mena & Eyer, 2015, p. 6). For this principle to tell the differences between each infant cries, words, movements, and facial expressions I would learn their unique ways of communicating by spending time with time.
Again we should see that a baby between newborn and three months can respond to adults, especially their parents face and voice. They will also show a high dependancy on adults for comfort and reassurance. They will quiten down when held and cuddled and will smile and concentrate on an adults face during feeding.
Finally, at the end of my observations hours I reached to the conclusion that babies or infants use different ways to communicate with adults doing sounds, gestures, and expressions, and crying its one of the most common way that babies use to tell us what they want or what they
At a certain age infants begin to resist the unfamiliar and are very vocal in expressing their feelings (Brazelton, 1992).
Babies, like all of us, have needs and wants. However, they are unable to communicate these in manner that older children and adults do. Thus, they use their most basic, yet effective, means of communicating their wishes – crying. Infants need to eat, sleep, be kept comfortable and healthy. In addition to these, they require attention as well as affection and have emotions like anyone else. In order to understand an infant’s crying, parents and caregivers must first know the reasons why these precious beings cry and the differences in crying for different purposes.