Your baby’s amazing brain
How develope your Baby's Brain?
When your baby was born, you counted his figure and toes. What you could not count was the incredible number of brains cells your new baby had-many billions!
Scientist have many techniques that let them see brain activity. They understand how your baby’s brain grows and change during his first few year of life. And they know that you play a key role.When your baby was born, you counted his figure and toes. What you could not count was the incredible number of brains cells your new baby had-many billions!
How the brain works
The basic building block of the brain is a cell called a neuron. These cells must connect with other neurons to work. A connecting is called a synapse.Your baby forms trillions of these synapses before birth and in his early years. One neuron can have thousands of connections with other neurons.At birth, your baby is able to breathe, hear, and suck because the connections among the brain cells for those reflexes are already set.
Sending and receiving messages
Neurons work by sending information throughout the body. It travels in the form of electrical signals. Information is sent through one neuron, Then to the next.The message come from your baby’s experience. As you feed, hold, touch, and talk to your baby, you are sending message to his brain.
The brain forms connections between neurons, but it also gets rid of connecting that aren’t used. This helps our brain work efficiently.
Neurons that are repeatedly stimulated form a pathway. This lets signals travel faster. For example, your child like to repeat things like climbing up steps. The more he practices, the more he practices, the better he can climb. The brain connections for climbing become stronger.
Why your baby needs fat
In your baby’s brain, a fatty layer called myelin develops to cover the neurons so that the electric signals do not “jump the track” while travelling.
Like insulation on an electrical cord, myelin makes it possible for never pathways to be used. As birth, only some neurons are myelinated. It takes many years for myelinated to be complete. Your baby’s brain needs a well – balanced diet, including the fat found in breast milk or properly prepared formula, for myelin to form. When you him these, you help his brain develop.
Nature and Nurture
Genes play a role in your baby’s potential. But so, do opportunities you give him. Your child’s amazing brain will grow at an incredible. And you can help it happen!
Because your baby’s brain is so changeable now, negative experience – or a lake of appropriate stimulation – can have serios and lasting effects. Give your baby responsive and stress – free environment. He depends on you to provide a safe place for him to grow, Things to spark his curiosity, and a warm, nurturing relationship.
Your baby is eager for the experience you give him. He is curious about the world. You can learn to read your baby’s signals. Notice what he is curious about. Help him explore it.
How you can help
Ø Hold, touch, and talk to your baby loving every day.
Ø Feed your baby healthy fats and other nutrients in breast milk or properly prepared formula.
Ø Protect your baby against brain damage from head injury lead poisoning.
Ø Read and sing with your baby. Play with him.
Ø Practice new sounds, words, and body movements over and over.
Ø Meet your baby’s needs quickly and warmly. He will feel happy, loved and safe.
Ø Look for your baby to do new things. Give him chance to practice them.
Executive function
Your baby’s brain is equipped to juggle multiple tasks like focusing and storing information. Thin is called executive functioning. Researcher say it is similar to air traffic controllers managing airplanes.
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