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    Games Babies Play: From Birth to Twelve Months
    Games Babies Play: From Birth to Twelve Months
    Games Babies Play: From Birth to Twelve Months
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    Games Babies Play: From Birth to Twelve Months

    By Vicki Lansky

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    Over 100 games and activities designed for use from birth to one year are a gift from Vicki Lansky, tried and true advice-giver and author of more than two dozen books on parenting. Games Babies Play is a collection of traditional and contemporary games that are organized into four three-month sections to keep pace with baby’s changing abilities.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBook Peddlers, The
    Release dateFeb 1, 2009
    ISBN9781931863650
    Games Babies Play: From Birth to Twelve Months

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      Book preview

      Games Babies Play - Vicki Lansky

      introduction

      Welcome to the wonderful world of your baby.

      In this first year you will see your baby’s abilities expand as your little one grows and develops in amazing ways. There is no way more wonderful to share in this process than through the delight of play and games.

      In baby play each family member learns about the other—and about oneself. You learn about attention spans, abilities, communication without words, patience, anticipation, crescendos, beginnings and endings, laughter, and the joy of touching.

      And best of all, in playing games, a baby learns that he or she is loved.

      Babies collect information through their senses. They need to have stimulation brought to them—stimulation to match their growing abilities. Here are activities to encourage as well as delight.

      While these ideas are given in a loose chronological order, don’t forget to go back and play the games suggested in the earlier chapters as your baby matures.

      With all the newly developing skills that these games will help encourage, know that this is only the beginning. The best is yet to come.

      Enjoy!

      Vicki Lansky

      Developmental Milestones

      birth to 3 months

      Babies are a miracle of sensory development. Their eyes focus well only at around eight inches for the first month of life. Still, this allows them to concentrate on what’s most important––studying their parents’ faces and the faces of those who feed and care for them. Newborns also respond to bright colors, bright lights and objects put near their faces.

      Infants’ hearing is comparable to that of adults. In fact, soon after birth, infants have been shown to prefer music they heard while in utero. They can be startled by sudden, loud noises. Newborns’ sense of smell is developed enough for them to be able to identify their mother’s smell.

      In the first three months, a baby’s energy is devoted to self-regulation in the areas of eating and sleeping. Still, they take in any information that acts upon them. Body movement is at first random and erratic. But each passing week brings more interaction with the environment, more smiling, and more control of those tiny hands which wave in front of baby’s own face.

      Neck muscles are not strong enough to support the head adequately so your help is needed for the first few months. A hand will grasp an object placed in the palm, though it is only a reflex action.

      By the third month, babies have become social beings, eager to smile, clearly recognizing familiar people, and delighted with attention. You can build a foundation of special, shared times by relating through games played together.

      BIRTH TO 3 MONTHS

      All Washed Up

      Baby Firming

      Baby Parts

      Baby Pull-Ups

      Bathtub Time-Out

      Bed Bouncing Baby

      Dance with Me, Baby

      Exercycle

      Finger Games

      I’m Gonna Getcha!

      Look at Me

      Lost in Space

      Lullaby Your Baby

      Old World Traditions

      Parent A Cappella

      Playback

      Pom Pom Play

      Puppet Play

      Rattles

      Starburst

      Stretchy, Stretchy

      Strokes for Li’l Folks

      Tickle Time Rhymes

      The Tootsie Roll

      Toy Target Practice

      Who Do I See?

      Wrist Watch

      ALL WASHED UP

      Talk and sing while bathing your infant in a sink or plastic molded tub. Sing about the parts of the body you’re washing. The following can be sung to London Bridge Is Falling Down.

      Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

      Head and shoulders, knees and toes,

      Knees and toes, knees and toes.

      Head and shoulders, knees and toes,

      Eyes and ears and mouth and nose.

      Sing this to the tune of Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.

      This Is the Way We Wash Our Face

      This is the way we wash our face,

      Wash our face, wash our face.

      This is the way we wash our face

      On a (day of the week) (morning or evening).

      Other verses to include in your bath time routine are:

      • clean our toes,

      • wash our arms,

      • scrub our feet,

      —this list is endless.

      These songs go well beyond infancy and will take on many variations as your baby learns the parts of the body.

      BABY FIRMING

      Your little one can help you get back in shape and make it more fun. Once your doctor okays you resuming exercise, there are firming-up routines you can begin that can include and entertain your baby.

      Kissy-Kissies

      With your baby lying face up on the floor, get on all fours over your baby with your baby between your hands. Begin gently by just lowering your head to kiss your little one. Advance to lowering your straightened body—with your weight resting on your knees and hands angled slightly inward—down to kiss your baby. Don’t let your stomach sag or your back arch. Push back up and repeat. If you were able to do standard push-ups before you were pregnant, work gently back to this stage without straining yourself. If you don’t like push-ups, limit yourself to cat curls where you just arch your back and then relax it again.

      Better Bottoms

      Lie on your back with your knees bent, feet on the floor, and baby sitting on your stomach with your hands securely around the torso

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