As long as their needs are being met, most babies younger than 6 months adjust easily to other people. Babies learn that when they can’t see mom or dad, that means they’ve gone away. They don’t understand the concept of time, so they don’t know mom will come back, and can become upset by her absence.

8 Traits Babies Inherit From Their Mother

• Sleeping Style. Between tossing and turning, insomnia, and even being a fan of naps, babies can pick up on these from mom during nap time and turn them into their own lifelong sleep habits.
• Hair Color.
• Hair Texture.
• Temper.
• Healthy Eating Habits.
• Dominant Hands.
• Migraines.
• Intelligence.

Your most important job is to keep your partner relaxed, so keep calm yourself. Do some progressive muscle relaxation exercises together or even a short mindfulness exercise. Or if she’ll let you, gently massage her head or back, and hold her hand during those really rough contractions. Read up on the stages of labor.

Dads are particularly good at playing with their children and through such play the child is learning scripts for social relationships. Dads, like moms, help children learn ways to “be with” others. Each relationship is a way to learn an alternative pattern: “Dad and I relate this way; Mom and I relate that way”.

The baby can find her mother simply by smelling her. Babies can focus their eyes only about eight to 10 inches, but they can smell from a much further distance. How does this happen? We know that the nasal cavities are developed as early as the second month in the womb.

The early signs that a secure attachment is forming are some of a parent’s greatest rewards: By 4 weeks, your baby will respond to your smile, perhaps with a facial expression or a movement. By 3 months, they will smile back at you. By 4 to 6 months, they will turn to you and expect you to respond when upset.

Right from birth, a baby can recognize his mother’s face, voice and smell, says Laible. The next step is linking those sounds and smells he trusts with something he can see.

The answer to this question is ‘No! ‘ Young babies need lots of attention, and you might worry – or other people might tell you – that if you ‘give in’ too often or give too much attention, it will ‘spoil’ your baby. But this won’t happen.

After being born into a loud, cold, wide-open world, it takes some time for them to get used to their new environment. Sometimes, or a lot of the time, they want that same close, warm, safe feeling they had when they were in the womb. Being held is as close as they can get to the comfort they’re familiar with.

Routine! Put him down for naps and bed at the same time each day. You may need to wake them in the morning to try to keep this schedule. Keep a structured routine, so his body becomes used to sleep at the same time.

“Wanting to be carried is typical toddler behaviour, she says. We call it ‘the circle of security’—they want to go out and be independent, and then come back to feel safe and calm with a parent, and then be independent again.”

Better behavior: 10 toddler discipline techniques to try

1. Spanking is not OK.
2. Strategy 1: Create routines, structure and safe places to explore.
3. Strategy 2: Notice and encourage good behavior.
4. Strategy 3: Turn a negative into a positive.
5. Strategy 4: Distract and redirect.
6. Strategy 5: Model better behavior.

Every baby develops speech at his or her own rate, but these are some of the common milestones in this age group: Imitates animal sounds and noises. At one year, says 4 to 6 simple words. At 18 months, says 10 to 15 words.

This means that in addition to being able to make sounds and words, your baby also needs to be able to hear and understand. Most children speak their first word between 10 to 14 months of age. By the time your baby is a year old, he or she is probably saying between one to three words.