Watch My Baby Grow : Follow One Baby’s First Year – and Find Out How Your Baby Thinks and Feels

Lots of books tell you about child development and a baby's first year, but Watch My Baby Grow shows you everything that happens in the first year of life in step-by-step pictures with detailed explanations. Every milestone of baby development, from gurgles to coos to first words, is documented and explained. Why does your baby's cry sound the way it does? How are your baby's eyes and brain developing? What are the evolutionary reasons for speech-like sounds around the age of four months? Watch My Baby Grow has answers to these questions, as well as an individual story — the early life of baby Melisa — to relate them. Find reassuring information, too, like how to spot the subtle cues that signal growing awareness and ability for your baby. Watch My Baby Grow is the true story of baby Melisa and her family. We are invited to marvel at the pictures of babies laughing, learning to eat and communicate, and growing. We learn about child development and baby brain development as the lively, informative text explains the biology of subtle changes in an infant's motor control, mental abilities, and vocal development. Follow baby Melisa and her family as they discover the magic of new life and of a child's incredible early weeks and months in this story that's at once very personal and also universal. Whether you're a first-time mother wondering what to expect, a family about to welcome a new member, or a reader who loves to celebrate life, Watch My Baby Grow is an unforgettable journey you'll love to take with Melisa and her family. One baby, one year, one extraordinary project. A unique pictoral event that unlocks the secret world of the newborn baby. By following the journey of one child and her family, Watch My Baby Grow shows exactly what happens during a baby's progress through each developmental milestone and why. By taking a scientific approach to baby growth, this book allows parents to track every step of their child's development by experiencing the world from their perspective. Details everything that happens in the first year of life in step-by-step pictures with detailed explanations, with every milestone of baby development, from gurgles to coos to first words, documented and explained. This book is packed with groundbreaking research about infants and their world conducted by Babylab at Birkbeck, University of London. Taking a scientific approach, the book explores Melisa's reflexes, maturing senses, and changing abilites "By following the journey of one child and her family, Watch My Baby Grow looks at a baby's developing abilities, from birth, over the course of a year. In the light of new scientific knowledge, this book explores every area of a baby's progress, and provides a fascinating insight into what it's really like from a baby's point of view."--Page 4 of jacket "By following the journey of one child and her family, Watch My Baby Grow looks at a baby's developing abilities, from birth, over the course of a year. In the light of new scientific knowledge, this book explores every area of a baby's progress, and provides a fascinating insight into what it's really like from a baby's point of view"--Back of cover. Contents 9 11 Introduction 10 13 Photo journal—Recording Melisa’s first year 12 14 Newborn 48 51 Senses 84 87 Growing and learning 110 113 Communication 162 165 Becoming an individual 190 193 Index 216 218 Acknowledgments 220 222 Photo journal - Recording Melissa's first year Newborn Senses Growing and learning Communication Becoming an individual.