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Mindfulness:  

You might find that your baby is beginning to want to be with you and to be upset when you leave. This is an important step in their development and shows they have a great connection with you.  

But it can feel quite intense at times, focusing on your breathing might help you to restore your sense of calm.  

You could try 4,5,6, breathing: 

1) Take a deep breath in and out through your mouth, try to take the breath right to your stomach.

Peek-a-boo supports:

 - The development of turn-taking
 - Supports self-confidence
 - Develops self-awareness
 - Encourages playing alongside others
 - Understanding social cues, language and facial expression

When you hear your baby's first giggle, it becomes your family’s collective mission to get as many smiles and laughs from them as you can.
Smiling and laughter demonstrate a leap in your child’s social and emotional development and each action becomes part of their toolbox as a way of communicating with you.
So, enjoy being silly with your baby, as it helps to develop brain connections, their language, and social and emotional skills, as well as building upon your relationship.

Your baby’s vision will be developing even more now, and they will be able to see things that are a little further away.  

Bubbles are a great early lesson in cause and effect (that one event makes another event happen).

You might notice that your baby is interested in pushing and pulling, and try to pull a chair, or push larger objects as they move around.

As your baby’s physical skills develop you might notice that they are interested in climbing. Exploring climbing also helps them to develop their body awareness. They receive signals from their joints as they push and pull to climb up or over an object and begin to link what they can see and feel as they position their hands and feet, ready to start their ascent.  

Your baby might not be saying words just yet, but now they can use their voice to get your attention, they’ll let you know when they want a chat...  

Your baby is excited to be able to use their voice – they’ve been practising for a while and their conversational toolkit has been growing. If you hear your baby making deliberate sounds, look at what they’re doing. Your baby will greet you with a big smile, as they will have achieved their goal of catching your attention.  

Babbling is a telltale sign that your baby is gaining control over their speech. They are learning to control the movement in their throat, allowing them to play around with volume, pitch changes and more controlled sounds. 

Our vocal tracts are quite fascinating: such a small part of our body produces a major part of our communication. 

Your baby enjoys listening to conversations and is gaining valuable knowledge about how conversations work. When you're talking with another person when your baby is with you, listen to their vocal sounds (they're probably trying to get involved!).