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Ever wondered how your newborn is going to recognize your voice or face? Not only you every expectant mother will undergo such thoughts in their last leg of pregnancy. Your baby starts listening to your voice when inside the womb itself, and it will recognise the voice after birth. Slowly, your baby will start tuning into your voice and sentence patterns to try and understand what you are saying. He or she will also begin to learn about more complicated ideas like time, love, trust and the causes and effects of certain simple actions. Below are details about babies achieving milestones? But as you go through this, please bear in mind that every baby is unique and will achieve its milestones at its own pace.
When do babies understand their name?
Within a few weeks after birth, your baby might turn and look at you when you call her name. But this is only because she recognizes your voice and not her name. By the time the baby is 5 to 7 months they learn that the name you call out refers to them. This is because of your baby’s developing ability to match the sounds with the objects or people that they denote. You can also help your baby to learn her name by using it often while talking to her. Eventually she will make the association and turn towards you when you call her. You can also do this for other important words like Mommy and Daddy.
When do babies recognise their parents?
Within a few weeks after birth, babies can babies can begin to recognise human faces and be drawn to them rather than objects. As an infant, it is one of their most favourite things to observe as it fascinates them especially if it is the baby’s mother or father’s face or its own reflection in the mirror. By the time they are three months old, babies begin to recognise familiar faces and start avoiding strangers or unknown faces.
Babies are a unique creation by God and every day with them can be amusing for us adults as we them learning and unlearning the human way of life!
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