Why play and talk with your newborn?

DID YOU KNOW?

• Newborns connect through seeing, hearing, feeling, and moving

• Newborns recognise their mother immediately

• Healthy babies can see, hear, and smell at birth

• Talking to babies from birth is very important for forming relationships with mother, father and caregivers

• Babies need to move freely and explore the environment to grow & develop

• Babies smile to people who smile at them

• Babies communicate with responsive feeling loved, safe and protected

• Breastfeeding on demand strengthens interaction and growing trust with the mother

• Babies can show emotions by crying and mothers can learn to recognise what they want

• Children show interest in breastfeeding by becoming fussy, sucking their hand, or moving their head toward the breast