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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

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