Communication with adults - the first month of life of the child

American scientist W. Condon discovered the ability of a newborn to move to the beat of an adult's speech on the first day of life, just as adult listeners do. These first responses are reflexive, they can not yet be called communication in our understanding, but they are very important. The first manifestations of the connection between mother and child, the scientists called "splicing", or "tuning behavior."It consists in the fact that the sound signals of the child affect the tonality and the tempo of the mother's speech and, conversely, the mother's speech affects the sounds produced by the baby.

Do not miss the first smile! A smile that arises as a congenital unconditioned reflex at the age of up to 2 weeks is not a smile in the full sense. The present appears at the age of 2 to 8 weeks and becomes a reaction to the human voice or face. It is more expressive and lasting. The appearance of this smile marks the end of the period of newborn.

During feeding, if the child lies in the "under the chest" position, his gaze rushes to the mother's face, sometimes moves: the child as it were trying to look at the face. At first, his eyes often fix the border of the hair and forehead of the mother. By the 3rd week the baby's eyes fix the eyes of the mother. The visual concentration on the face of an adult, the auditory focus on his voice form an indicative component of communication.

The period of newborns is the first critical period in the development of a child. This is a transition from a dependent type of existence to a form of individual life. Transition to a new form of breathing, from darkness to light, from heat to cold, from one type of food to another. Other types of physiological regulation of behavior come into play, and many systems begin to function anew.

The emergence of a "revitalization complex" is a psychological criterion for the end of the newborn crisis.

• Create the feeling that you love and care for him.

• Learn to find the cause of his displeasure( uncomfortable folds of clothes or diapers, hunger, uncomfortable position, accumulation of gases).

• Help him learn how to hold the head, laying the child more often on the stomach, several times a day.

• Take on the hands more often: the child develops various reactions to changes in the position of the body.

• Lean over the crib, smile at the kid, call out, attract his attention.

• Talk with him during feeding, swaddling, bathing.