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Before you delve into Bundoo’s coverage of developmental milestones, I think it’s important to mention a few things. First, reading “week by week” milestone books for your baby’s first year is a bit like reading “week by week” pregnancy books. They...
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Your baby’s first year of life is an exciting time of significant speech and language development, both in what your child understands and expresses. Even though most babies are not yet talking, their “pre-” speech and language skills are...
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Toddler
During the second year, children become increasingly able to use speech and language for a variety of purposes. Not only will they be able to tell you their wants and needs, but as their vocabularies increase, they will also learn to use language...
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In the first year of life, the physical milestones are the most obvious and exciting. As babies grow from newborns to toddlers, their physical capabilities are advancing in leaps and bounds. Your baby’s muscles are strengthening quickly, and...
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Toddler
Your baby’s first birthday is a wonderful turning point. The adorable baby who scooted around the floor and struggled to pick up small objects is rapidly transforming into an adorable toddler. Over the first three months of this year, your new...
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From rolling over, to starting to play with toys, to laughing and babbling, your 8-month-3-week-old baby is likely knocking down milestones like dominoes. This can be exciting and fun to watch, but it comes with a caution: no baby achieves every...
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At 7 months, 2 weeks old, your baby is “standing” right on the edge of a major period of change and development. Although your baby has been learning and growing incredibly fast up to this point, many of his or her advances have been more subtle:...
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Your 5- to 7-month-old is just beginning to discover his or her own body, but these little developments add up to a big change. At this age, your baby is still learning to control voluntary muscles, which requires a great deal of coordination....
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Most babies approaching their first birthdays are on the brink of a major transition: they are about to get up and take those first tottering baby steps. Before your baby starts walking — which usually happens around or after the first birthday —...
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Toddler
As a toddler approaches 2 years old, they will become increasingly confident and assured in motor skills — walking, running, throwing and kicking balls, and picking up and rearranging pretty much everything in your residence that isn’t nailed...
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Between the ages of 16 and 19 months, babies continue to hone the skills they first started acquiring a few months earlier — walking then running, picking up objects, and climbing onto chairs and other furniture (make sure you’ve...
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Your baby is three quarters of a year old, which means it’s time to head back to the pediatrician’s office for the 9-month check-up. There are a few aspects of this checkup that will feel familiar, including: Measuring your baby’s head...
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For the first month of your baby’s life, don’t be surprised if it’s full of eating, sleeping, pooping, and crying. At this age, babies have very little control of their voluntary muscles and instead rely mainly on reflex actions, such...
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In the first year of life, your baby’s brain develops much faster than his or her body. Every day, your child is learning new things, making connections, and figuring out how the world works. Your baby is constantly looking around, trying to...
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Despite the huge changes your baby has undergone since birth, development is still happening in very fundamental ways by 5-7 months. Emotionally, your child is learning to express the most simple of feelings — hunger, frustration, joy — but complex...
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Although it might not seem like it, your baby is a cognitive sponge from birth. Beginning immediately, babies are soaking up information about this strange new world and the people in it. Your baby is constantly watching you, listening to what you...
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Can you believe your baby is halfway through the first year? Six-month old babies find new adventures everywhere they turn. This is an incredible time in your baby’s life, since there are new things to explore every day. Physical development By six...
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It’s official! You have a 6-month-old on your hands. Chances are, it’s hard to remember life before your baby, even if the last six months have flown by. Now it’s time to head to your pediatrician for his six-month check up. This is an important...
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Depending on what you read, xenoestrogens are either causing a major health epidemic among our children, or they are a scare tactic used by political and health activists to make parents worry needlessly. Xenoestrogens are defined as environmental...
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Your baby is a toddler, entering into a new phase of life! Gone are the baby days — and life with a toddler is about to get even more fun. Before your child’s 12-month well-child check, it’s important to consider his or her developmental...
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Baby
From rolling over, to starting to play with toys, to laughing and babbling, your baby is likely knocking down milestones like dominoes. This can be exciting and fun to watch, but it comes with a caution: no baby achieves every milestone at the...
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Baby
The four-month milestone means it’s time to head to your child’s pediatrician for his or her well-baby check. A well child check is a time for your pediatrician to determine how your baby is progressing in terms of growth and development. There are...
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Baby
At 7 months, your baby is “standing” right on the edge of a major period of change and development. Although your baby has been learning and growing incredibly fast up to this point, many of his or her advances have been more subtle: learning to...
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Baby
Don’t be surprised if it seems like your baby is making huge leaps forward in the months leading up to the first birthday. While developmentally normal babies are always progressing quickly, the changes in this period are especially obvious....
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Toddler
To the eyes of a toddler, the world is a never-ending source of amazement and constant frustration. Your toddler is soaking up information about the world, making new connections and learning new things every day. Your baby’s world is constantly...
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Kids on the brink of their first birthdays are a bundle of contradictions: on one hand, they’re increasingly confident about expressing their emotions and asserting their independence, but they can also be clingy and shy around strangers, as...
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Toddler
One of the great miracles of parenting is watching your baby slowly emerge into toddlerhood and then childhood. Every new skill is a triumph, and each thought and feeling is experienced as a new, exciting and sometimes frustrating new sensation. By...
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At 6 weeks old, your baby may make a startling discovery: he or she has hands! Before now, those things on the ends of the arms waved around a lot, but most babies have very little control over their hands until right around this age. At six weeks,...
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At 2 months old, your baby is turning into Superbaby — at least that might seem how it looks from the outside, now that your baby can hold his or her head up at a 45-degree angle for extended periods of time and may seem to be attempting pushups...
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A new baby’s heart begins to develop as early as week five of pregnancy (3 weeks after conception) when the tube of muscle forms that will someday be the baby’s heart. This first primitive structure doesn’t have any of the...
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Toddler
There’s no doubt that exposure to music and music education helps babies recognize sound patterns—the foundation of learning language—but some researchers believe the link between music and language goes much deeper than recognition. Between the...
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Baby
Your baby is three quarters of a year old, which means it’s time to head back to the pediatrician’s office for the 9-month check-up. There are a few aspects of this checkup that will feel familiar, including: Measuring your baby’s head...
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Between the ages of 2 and 4 months, you and your new baby will have started to settle into a predictable routine with set times for sleep, feeding, and play. Right around this time, your baby will start to show intense curiosity about the world....
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Between 2 and 4 months, your baby’s range of emotional expression will be rapidly developing. Most babies this age will smile when they’re happy or amused, coo when content, and cry when feeling lonely or frustrated. A child this young...
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Here’s the good news: by five months of age, babies have usually hit their stride and typically sleep between six and eight hours a night. Of course this isn’t true for all babies — some are still waking up every few hours, and others have been...
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You may have spent almost every minute of the past two weeks with your baby. You’ve probably already started to adjust to your new schedule of waking and sleeping at strange times, and hopefully you’re almost an old pro already at the feeding...
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We know you’re busy, but as you’re nearing the major milestone of your baby’s first birthday, it’s a good time to reflect on everything that’s changed since that day almost a year ago when you welcomed your baby into the world. It’s remarkable how...
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Even from the first days, babies can be surprisingly attuned to your emotional state and the beginnings of their unique personalities are evident from birth. At this age, your baby will be easily influenced by his or her caretakers. Your baby may...
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Your 10-week-old baby has come a long way since you first brought him or her home from the hospital! While it’s impossible to generalize, a 10-week-old baby will have packed on weight and muscle since birth — and it’s starting to show. While it’s...
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Now that your baby is interacting more with the world, you are likely enjoying the benefits and joys of playtime. Remember that playtime for your baby can mean different things. Simply holding your baby, walking around, and looking at the world can...
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Parents, you are nearing the finish line that marks the end of infancy. Soon you will have a toddler on your hands. This is an exciting transition that will affect all aspects of your child’s life. By now, many 11-month-old babies are eating...
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Toddler
As they approach their second birthdays, toddlers are increasingly able to verbalize their emotions and wants, which makes the job of parenting a lot easier, since you don’t have to frantically guess what your child is so upset about! But...
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By the time your baby grows into full toddler-hood, the changes are coming fast and furious—especially when it comes to brain development. The toddler years are full of discovery as your toddler learns all sorts of new skills. Music has shown to...
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By now, your baby is happily crawling or scooting across the room, sometimes at speeds that make leaving delicate objects on the floor a dangerous idea. Your baby may even have taken some tentative steps. But if your infant still hasn’t crawled or...
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Your baby is growing by leaps and bounds. Even after just a few months, he or she is doing enough amazing things to keep you glued behind the video camera. But is your baby hitting developmental milestones ahead or behind of his or her peers?...
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Toddler
While it’s probably too early to think about the gifted program at your local elementary school, you’ll be amazed at the cognitive progress your baby may make between 16 and 19 months old. This is when toddlers pick up new words and...
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Your baby is growing fast and wanting to explore his or her world in a bigger way. Crawlers are off and, well, crawling … all over the home. Nap schedules are hopefully well established, as are feeding times. Around now you may get the sense that...
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As your baby nears the four-month check-up, you might find yourself wondering if he or she is “normal.” While it’s important to remember that every baby is unique, and growing up isn’t a race, there are certain things pediatricians look for around...
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Is your baby rocking and rolling all the time now? Guess what that means? If it hasn’t happened already, your baby is getting ready to make one of his or her first big steps forward: rolling over without help. Rolling over on their own is a major...
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Many parents eagerly look forward to seeing their baby crawl across the floor — only to realize somewhere around this time that actual crawling might never happen. The truth is, not every baby crawls before learning to walk. Some are content to...
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Parenting
A few studies have suggested that shy kids are more likely to have language problems. A new study, however, from the University of Colorado and University of Chicago, paints a different picture of the link between temperament and language...
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Toddler
During the first two years of life, your child’s brain grows faster than it will at any other time during his or her life. To maintain this very rapid growth, the brain needs certain nutrients, including healthy fats, DHA, iron, and certain...
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Parenting
Parental stress affects children of all ages. In fact, studies have shown that parents’ stress can put children at risk for behavioral, emotional, and learning problems, as well as health issues such as asthma. One recent study demonstrated that...
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Toddler
Toddlers on the brink of their second birthdays are experiencing a cognitive explosion: they’ve already learned how to use a few words, and now they’re learning the names of new things practically every day and even stringing together...
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International adoption is big: according to the U.S. State Department, about 4,059 children were adopted internationally in 2018, down from a high of almost 23,000 in 2004. The largest single country of origin was China, followed by Ethiopia and...