The Wonder Weeks: How to Stimulate Your Baby's Mental Development and Help Him Turn His 10 Predictable, Great, Fussy Phases Into Magical Leaps ... fussy phases into magical leaps forward.

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De Weerth's observational data consequently showed the predicted regression periods only for the fourth mother-infant dyad, who were relatively free from extrinsic sources of stress.

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Having found a reasonable explanation for my problem on that fateful day, I quickly downloaded The Wonder Weeks app. This is the second child we have used this app with, and I'll always wish I had had it with our first. Instead of toting a crying, clingy baby around on our trips, we were able to share our travel experiences with him when he was his best, happiest self. The interdisciplinary handbook of Perceptual Control Theory: Living control systems IV, London: Academic Press (published 2020), pp.So often, it is the reminder that we need that when things feel hard, it's not because we are doing something wrong but just evidence that our babe is growing and learning. You can use the app to not only track your child’s leaps but also to record the signals they demonstrate and the skills they begin to show off with each leap, if you choose. It didn’t take long to discover (thanks to a number of sources) that growth spurts are very common at that age and can cause fussiness (cue enormous sigh of relief), but what’s more, “mental leaps” are common too.

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Thanks to the sudden change in the brain, the senses of hearing, touch, smell, taste, and sight are experiencing rapid growth. During the time that the brain is reorganizing, the kinds of experiences which the infant had grown confident controlling at that lower level of perception are destabilized, but before long learning from experience gives rise to new cognitive and behavioral capabilities. The leaps are predicted to occur at approximately 5, 8, 12, 19, 26, 37, 46, 55, 64 and 75 weeks old. Looking to book several vacations the year my son was born, we actually consulted his leap chart before reserving our Airbnbs.Beyond the scope of the book, additional regression periods have been documented, even into the teen years. As a PhD student, Carolina de Weerth, proposed to replicate the ethological findings with four mother-infant dyads. Longitudinal recordings of the vocalizations of immature Gombe chimpanzees for developmental studies".