What's going on in the mind of the newborn

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infant psyche is a set of innate unconditioned reflexes to help the child in the first hours of his life.

What kind of unconditioned reflexes is our baby? This sucking and respiratory reflexes, protective (e.g., by touching the eyelids, the baby closes his eyes or zazhmurivaetsya in bright light) and indicative (When a child, when you touch the corner of the lips, begins to search for the breast or when the baby turns his head toward the light source) and many other reflexes.

During the year, many of these reflexes fade. This indicates the normal development of the central nervous system. Most of the neonatal period the child is asleep. It can also move the arms and legs. Baby wakes up only of any discomfort: hunger, thirst, cold, or if he was awakened. But as soon as you remove the cause, the child falls asleep immediately.

So a child can distinguish tastes: salty, sweet, bitter. It can react to loud sounds, and later it will begin to react to the voice of a man, and even turn the head toward the sound source. Somewhere in the 3 - 5 weeks of age, the baby is already drew attention to the colorful toys. However, until a short time, but still. Approximately a month your baby will already recognize you and, at the meeting with you, happily waving arms and legs, making different sounds and even smile. Such a reaction is called "lively complex" and it shows that your child moves out of the newborn in a proper childhood.

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Infancy is increasingly characterized by direct emotional contact with an adult. Such communication with an adult in a child creates a joyful mood and increases his activity, which is the necessary basis for the development of movement, perception, thought and speech of your baby. Not always our grandmothers can give good advice, since their time it was like carrying in her arms a baby harmful. In the first six months of the child is actively developing its speech. Initially generated speech hearing, and the baby with joyful Revitalization produces sounds which are usually called Gulen.

And in the second half of the child already begins to make repetitive sound mix, often associated with the actions of the child. And by the end of the first year of life he understands about 10 - 20 words that are uttered by adults. The very same can speak one or more words that are similar in sound to adult speech.

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