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WHAMBaby Week by Week
Small and sweet, yes. But clueless? Not your little one! Read on for fascinating development research about (and simple recommendations for) your baby during these first 52 weeks.
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- Your Brilliant Baby in Week 1: Knowing You from Others
- Even at birth, your newborn displays some brilliant behavior: She not only can recognize your face by now, she actually likes it better than ... Read More
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- Your Brilliant Baby in Week 2: Copying Mouth Movements
- By his second week, Baby realizes that you and he are very similar beings. Watch as he mirrors the faces you make at him! ... Read More
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- Your Brilliant Baby in Week 3: A Discerning Sense of Touch
- These days, your newborn is getting a feel for the world around him—literally! Learn how meaningful touch is for your baby right now. ... Read More
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- Your Brilliant Baby in Week 4: Identifying Smells, Sounds, and Tastes
- Amazingly, your newborn’s abilities to hear, smell, and taste are already hard at work making sense of her environment. Here's why your ... Read More
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- Your Brilliant Baby in Week 5: Crying to Gain Your Trust
- Knowing what’s normal about your baby’s tears can help you better meet her needs. This week, learn the why’s of Baby’s cries. ... Read More
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- Your Brilliant Baby in Week 6: Detecting Patterns
- Bullseye! Baby is intrigued by high-contrast (especially black and white) designs in his sixth week. Here, learn why patterns matter. ... Read More
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- Your Brilliant Baby in Week 7: Combining Use of Senses
- Can you believe that by now, Baby can correctly match an item she's mouthed to an item she sees? Learn more about how your brilliant Baby ... Read More
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- Your Brilliant Baby in Week 8: Emerging Emotions
- No more "gassy smiles" for your eight-week-old! By now, he's smiling in response to your own grin. Read why!
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- Your Brilliant Baby in Week 9: Cooing and Parentese
- Parents across cultures speak to babies in the same soft, sometimes squeaky way you do. Here's how Baby benefits from it in her ninth week. ... Read More
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- Your Brilliant Baby in Week 10: The Mystery of Colic
- As hard as it is to hear, colicky babies' excessive crying is, well, normal. Here's why, and how you can cope with the mystery of colic. ... Read More
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- Your Brilliant Baby in Week 11: Raising a Bilingual Child
- Lots of families worry whether raising their children around multiple languages will confuse them. Not so, say researchers. Learn why ... Read More
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- Your Brilliant Baby in Week 12: Correlating Dads and Diapers
- What's the real reason why Baby is so calm with Mom and so fussy with Dad? She smells like food—and comfort. Read what dads can do to gain favor in ... Read More
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- Your Brilliant Baby in Week 13: The Myth of Spoiling Baby
- Afraid you might spoil Baby if you dotingly attend to her cries? Don't be, say researchers. Here's why comforting your baby when she's sad ... Read More
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- Your Brilliant Baby in Week 14: Understanding Cause and Effect
- By Baby's fourteenth week, she is beginning to understand cause and effect—that is, that kicking her mobile or yelping for Mommy makes things ... Read More
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- Your Brilliant Baby in Week 15: Evidence of Memory
- From one day to the next, your baby is picking up lots of new skills but also recalling ones he's just learned. Read more about what it takes Baby ... Read More