Understanding Infant Development: The Wonder Weeks

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The Wonder Weeks

Although parents can 't learn about their baby through an app on their phone, it helps parents gain knowledge of their baby because it explains what mental and physical leaps their baby will be going through at a specific time in their development. The most beneficial part of the wonder weeks is that it starts explaining mental growth and physical growth while the baby is still in the womb. The wonder weeks helps parents prepare for upcoming weeks of leaps and lets parents know when their baby will be fussier, cranky or clingier than usual. It also helps with what milestones parents babies should be at, at a certain time what they should developed by a certain time or should have developed already. The app may also keep …show more content…

The wonder weeks explains weekly what developments the parents baby is going through for that week and how parents can help the baby develop. For example, in week 16-22 baby is developing his hearing more so start reading and singing to her. As a mother I of course take in what developments the baby is going through for that certain week and what I can do to help her out in her growth. The growth starts from day one in the womb. In a woman 's last month of pregnancy, babies do begin to do things with their brains. Studies aren 't sure and haven 't been able to prove yet if they do actual thinking inside or outside the womb at the begging but they do respond to certain stimuli and now it 's proven that babies have many sensory developments even inside of the mother 's …show more content…

The wonder weeks allows you to understand why your baby is being cranky or fussy. Does the baby need more comfort than normal, hungrier than normal or just plain out fussy? As a parent, it can get frustrating when the baby is crying for no reason and you have no idea what 's going on but wonder weeks explains why your baby is crying and what a parent can do to help them. Each week that passes it will explain to you what mental leap the baby is going through and although simple tasks have become so easy to adults to babies it 's a struggle, coming from the world where everything is given to them food, comfort, shelter to needing to understand how to get it. Mental leaps in a babies life are huge because not only are they mentally chaining they are also developmentally changing. In the app, it will allow parents to know what days and weeks there baby will be going through a “rough” leap so parents can be well prepared for that certain week. A mental leap can affect babies in many ways that may worry a parent such as less eating, crying more often, sleeps or wakes up a lot more often so as a parent it 's normal to feel as if there may be something wrong with the baby but as you learn about the babies leaps it will be better understood as to why the baby is acting a certain way. 3 Milestones can be a huge and nerve wrecking time for a parent. Parents may think “ is my

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