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In the womb your baby’s hearing gets stimulated by around 20 weeks or so. That’s from when you can talk to your baby and introduce her to the world of words and sounds. It also helps establish a long lasting bond with her. ‘Talking to the baby in the womb helps in auditory stimulation and builds synapses or neuron connections in the brain that is responsible for hearing,’ informs Dr Geetanjali Shah, pediatrician attached to Supraja Foundation and Ashvini IVF center, Mumbai. Don’t just restrict yourself to words, sing songs and lullabies too. This helps your baby pick up words faster when spoken after birth.
Talk to your newborn baby:
‘Talking to the
bump helps your baby to pick up words and language faster after birth and aids
in social skills development. The bonus is that when you had been talking to
your bump often and continue to do the same after the birth your baby’s brain
recalls, recollects and remembers the words and dialects and starts picking up
speech swiftly,’ says Dr Shah. Your infant’s talking starts with cooing and
gurgling and some sounds like ‘ooh’ sometime during the second month of her
life. This is when you need to be more encouraging with her. Talk often and
introduce her to things around. The best would be to talk about her toys and introduce
her to the family including you.
You may have heard
that it’s never too early to read to your baby. Well that’s true. Introducing
your baby to pictures and words using board books early will help her pick up
words and information faster. You can start as early as four or six months.
This helps in brain development too. Point to the pictures and name simple
objects to reinforce your baby’s speech development and stimulate auditory
senses. Use short words and then pause. This will allow your baby to respond
with her own baby talk and encourage the give-and-take interaction that’s
needed for adult conversation.
Introduce the world around:
From 4 to 7
months on wards babies tend to babble more and watch their parent’s reactions.
Take advantage of this period and introduce her to a host of words and
activities. Tell her about your work,
her dad’s work and things around the house. This not only helps her pick up
words or remember them when the need be, it will help her to work on her intonation
and pitch too. You might see your little one babbling more while trying to lay
emphasis on something particular like asking for a toy or a feed. Respond to
her not only with action but words. Remember babies pick up a lot from seeing
the world around and taking cues from the caregiver. So if your baby is
pointing towards a ball, give it to her saying ‘here goes your ball, baby.’
That establishes a relationship of a word with a thing and makes learning about
her surroundings fun.
Especially peek-a-boo. You
never know how this can help in your little one’s brain development and speech
initiation. Ask her ‘where am I’ and then respond with ‘here I am.’ Of course
you have to do all the talking in the beginning but that will help her learn
more about conversational skills and command better, later. Alternatively
engage in other games like pointing to pictures of animals, flowers, birds etc.
All this helps in cognitive functions and speech development too.
By
around eight or 12 months your baby will blurt out those magical words ‘mama’
and ‘papa’ though will not be able to associate you or your partner with those
words. But this is also the time when babies look for more one on one
interaction too. So ask her ‘where is papa?’ and point out to the person. Then
ask her the same question and wait for the answer. This encourages the baby to
try to talk or babble and helps her brain to process the information and react
accordingly. Later when her speech is developed her responses to such questions
will be quick and fast.
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