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