The days are passing, the first month has already been left behind and you consider yourself more triumphant than an Olympic athlete. The baby is going to his new world and you to him, which costs very little. Every achievement of the new being is celebrated, every cheered change and every new action a feat. It is not for less! What can we do to activate at this point in your developing? It is time for the teethers and rattles.
Tasting the world around him
What immense pleasure and happiness it causes when the baby takes one of your fingers with his little hands. You feel that the world fits in that little hand and produces so much comfort that the smile is inevitable. From its birth this does it as a reflex act, until the second month. At that time he is more aware of what he has in hand and these and his mouth will be the means with which to venture around the world: grabbing, biting, sucking and grabbing everything that causes interest (and that includes the desirable and the undesirable ). How much my baby enjoys chipping the wall and eating the paint! The menu does not have a single plate: it can also consist of newspaper as an entree, fluff as a second and the exquisite baby wipes as a delicious dessert. All this will depend on the presence of the maitre (us) and the time that catches us off guard.
The mouth will not be the only way to venture and try the exciting and unknown world around you, your hands They will help in such a need: what a special moment when you discover them! (the first few weeks his vision is very reduced). He looks at them as if they were the strangest and most imposing object in the galaxy, and at that moment, of course they are (or they seemed to me). By the third month you can now open them, put your palms together and play in your little face with them while you can grab objects intentionally!
Listening, touching and testing
It is the ideal time for you to learn with rattles and teethers. During the first weeks, gently shake the rattle in front of the baby at a distance that can follow it with your eyes, brush your hands and the baby's skin so that he realizes that it is you who is teaching him that curious thing that makes noise and Once you can take it with your own hands, don't hesitate to offer it so you can explore and manipulate it.
Their varied textures, their multiple colors that attract them so much and their sounds they will enter you into a world of Oz with which to entertain for hours and that make them the best toys (and gifts) for this time. When the first teeth arrive they will also become the best ally because they reduce the baby's discomfort and help to file the gums.
The teethers and rattles they will develop their motor skills, their visual and manual coordination, their auditory and tactile ability and their desire to explore the new world that opens before him. They will also make your menu more adequate although I am afraid that it will not prevent (not at least mine) from wanting to continue trying some strange delicacies that you find around the house and make him lick (and you who put your hair on end ).
