In the first year of baby’s life, baby’s brain is excessively developed in order to know more things in the world. This is the perfect time for you to give stimulations to your baby or I can say it is time to entry data. Any information that is given will be remembered and be categorized by your baby. The more you stimulate her, the more develop her brain is of course. There are at least 3 tips for successful baby’s brain development that are suggested by many experts:
- Give the best nutrition for your baby. By giving breast milk exclusively to your baby for 6 months means you had given the best nutrition for her since breast milk contains nutrients that are needed for baby’s brain development. The nutrients are less found in formulae milk. Those are taurine, lactose, and polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as DHA, AA, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Besides, by exclusively breastfeeding your baby, her immune system will be boosted that possibly prevent your baby to suffer diseases. By avoiding from disease, her brain development will be taken place better. You have to remember, start from 6 months you should give your baby semisolid food contains sufficient carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamins, and mineral to complete breast milk.
- Assure your baby feels safe and comfort. Avoid traumatic, stress, and ignorance to be experienced by baby. Research shows that traumatic, stress and ignorance can cause the part of the brain which regulates emotional respond and closeness become 20-30% smaller than the normal size. Don’t forget too that baby needs to be socialized, don’t let her feel to be ignored by people around. If baby too often feeling ignorance, her upper-membrane of the brain, which is cortex and limbic, that control the ability in thinking more sophisticated and help to regulate impulsive emotional respond being not-normal developed. Don’t prevent your baby to explore new things since it can stimulate baby’s brain cells to form many new synapse.
- Invite your baby to talk and read a book for your baby. Expert suggests that we should respond baby’s babble by smiling and talking to baby commenting what she’s doing. Face to face interaction will build connection among brain cells that are needed to develop language skill and close emotional.
These three simple tips can surely help you in stimulating baby’s brain. Don’t hesitate to do it and feel the different atmosphere. You should concentrate to optimize the development of baby’s brain at this particular period of age.
If you enjoyed the articles, you can sign up for our daily email newsletter.
