Baby Development

Follow the links below to find information on how babies and toddlers develop and the stages they go through.

Updated September 2008

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Title:   Learning to dress independently
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Some tips for helping your child learn to dress himself, including ideas to make getting dressed fun for you and your child.
Date:   Aug 2006

Title:   Eating things that are not food
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Pica may be a sign that the child has a developmental, behavioural, emotional, nutritional or health problem.
Date:   Nov 2008

Title:   Temperament: what is it?
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   The way a child behaves can be the result of many things, including temperament. Discusses what temperament is and whether it can change.
Date:   Dec 2006

Title:   Social and emotional growth from age 1-2
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Discusses how one-year-olds deal with their own and other's feelings, and how they get along with other people.
Date:   Jan 2007

Title:   Toddler behaviour: in a nutshell
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   This in-a-nutshell guide looks offers ways to help encourage good behaviour in toddlers. It also offers tips on how you can help a toddler change her behaviour.
Date:   May 2008

Title:   Emotional attachment
Publisher:   Headroom (Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide)
Description:   The formation of a strong emotional attachment between an infant and a parent is thought to be something that has lifelong benefit. The parent's ability to create a nurturing and positive relationship with their child forms a solid grounding and can avoid a range of problems.
Date:   Nov 2005

Title:   The more talk the better
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   When it comes to teaching your child language, it's how much you talk to her that counts the most. Includes practical tips for talking more to your child.
Date:   May 2006

Title:   I'm embarrassed
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Some time between 15-24 months, babies become much more self aware. Self-awareness can lead to embarrassment. This article includes tips on dealing with your child's embarrassment, and on encouraging empathy.
Date:   Jan 2007

Title:   Love, talk, sing, read, play. Ideas to make the most of my child early development
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Hand out for parent and carer in how to make the most of child early development.
Date:   Aug 2007

Title:   Right from the start
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Most parents know that the early years of a child's life are the building blocks for the future but why do the first few years matter so much?
Date:   Oct 2008

Title:   Crying baby
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   A baby's cry is distressing for parents, and it is meant to be. It is the baby's main way of letting people know that he needs help.
Date:   Nov 2008

Title:   Weaning
Publisher:   Australian Breastfeeding Association
Description:   The time to wean your baby is when you or your baby decide that it is right, taking into account the needs of your baby, yourself and your home and family situation.
Date:   Jan 2004

Title:   Feelings: toddlers
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Explains your toddler's emotions and feelings, and games you can play to help develop them.
Date:   Aug 2006

Title:   Attachment
Publisher:   Headroom (Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide)
Description:   Attachment could also be called baby bonding. It is a term used to describe the infant's behaviours that are designed to get a response that meets the infant's needs. The adult part of attachment is the set of behaviours that responds to the infant.
Date:   Jan 2002

Title:   Early developmental intervention programs post hospital discharge to prevent motor and cognitive impairments in preterm infants
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Preterm infants (babies born before 37 weeks) are at risk of development problems, including problems with cognitive and motor development. Cognitive development refers to thinking and learning ability and motor development refers to the way infants mov...
Date:   Dec 2006

Title:   About babies - their senses
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Newborn babies may seem very helpless and vulnerable, and in many ways they are, but they can see, hear, taste, smell and feel. They communicate their feelings and needs (such as their need for comfort and feeds) by crying.
Date:   Oct 2008

Title:   A baby in the family
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Have you just heard that you're going to have a new baby in the family? Are you excited about it? Are you a bit worried about it? Maybe you haven't thought about it much? When you see the new baby, these are some things that you may notice first.
Date:   Aug 2007

Title:   Baby massage
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Western civilisation has only recently discovered the gentle art of baby massage, something that other cultures have been practicing for thousands of years.
Date:   Aug 2007

Title:   Your baby is reading your face
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   By watching an adult's facial expressions and listening to their tone of voice, babies as young as 10 months old can use emotional information to make decisions. Also discusses 'social referencing'.
Date:   Aug 2006

Title:   Baby walkers
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   A baby walker consists of a rigid frame on wheels with a sling seat. Babies can sit in the seat before they are able to sit alone or crawl.
Date:   Dec 2007
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