| From day one, your precious newborn takes in the sights and sounds of your environment and is soothed by your loving touch. This is the earliest form of learning. What babies see, hear, smell, touch, and taste provides important clues about the bright, colourful, noisy world in which they suddenly find themselves. Within hours after birth, newborns can tell the difference between their mother’s voice and that of a stranger’s. They also know who mum is by her unique scent. Until they can talk, babies have no other way to understand or communicate, so their senses become their main receptors to the world. In the weeks and months to come, all five of the senses will continue to develop, helping babies learn more and more about their parents and their surroundings.
Because babies aren’t very mobile—at least at first—they need you to provide interesting things to look at and play with. They’ll thrive as you expose them to a variety of different sounds and objects of various shapes and textures. As you open up the wide world of baby’s senses, little by little your child will begin to grasp what’s out there and, literally, learn how to make sense of it.
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