20 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Kangaroo Care and Infant Massage
A technique for helping a preterm infant to regulate their body heat and a daily exercise for stimulating the infant to improve its cognition and responsiveness.
Folksonomies: parenting,infancy,child rearing,fetal development,child care
18 JUL 2011 by ideonexus What Newborns Hear and Learn in the Womb
The mother's voice, stories read to them, and sounds from their environment; with the exception of the father's voice, to which the infant grows habituated very soon after birth.
Folksonomies: infancy,fetal development,habituation
08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Scientists Emulate Babies
We have even institutionalized an environment of infancy for scientists in academia, where they are allowed to explore freely in general research, understanding that the discoveries made there may hold great benefits for the human race. This meme also suggests that free inquiry is an important aspect of raising children and maintaining an environment of free inquiry for parents is important as well.
Folksonomies: science,babies,infancy,academia
08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Looking at babies attentively makes us treat them differently.
Seeing babies as young adults makes us treat them humanely; whereas, in the past, babies were denied analgesia because it was thought that their primitive minds did not sense pain the way an adult's mind did.
Folksonomies: pseudoscience,babies,infancy,human rights
08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Children Learn New Languages More Easily Than Adults
It is best to teach someone a new language when they are young and their brain is more plastic.
Folksonomies: infancy,learning,language,plasticity
08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Babies Learn The Sounds of Their Language
When a language does not make a clear distinction between two sounds, the children of that language cannot hear the distinction in other languages.
Folksonomies: babies,infancy,language
29 JUN 2011 by ideonexus Mother-Baby Social Play
How babies actively seek to engage with mothers socially, connecting with them.
Folksonomies: parenting,motherhood,babies,infancy,infants
29 JUN 2011 by ideonexus Physiological Effects of Cosleeping with Infants
How cosleeping effects an infant's progression through sleep, with the mother guiding it through the cycles.
Folksonomies: infancy,cosleeping,attachment parenting
29 JUN 2011 by ideonexus Shortening a Baby's Crying Duration
Nothing works better than carrying the baby and responding quickly to its needs.
Folksonomies: infancy,attachment parenting,crying
29 JUN 2011 by ideonexus Crying as an Evolutionary Strategy
Infants cry to motivate mothers to care for them and to promote continual feeding that prevents the mother from ovulating.
Folksonomies: evolution,infancy,adaptation,crying