Baby Development

Follow the links below to find information on how babies and toddlers develop and the stages they go through.

Updated September 2008

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Title:   Talking to your baby
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Explains your newborn baby's talking and listening skills, and games you can play to help develop them.
Date:   May 2009

Title:   Bonding with your newborn
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   An overview of how newborns learn and how adults communicate with newborns.
Date:   Apr 2009

Title:   Movement: newborns
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Explains your newborn baby's movement skills, and games you can play to help develop them.
Date:   Apr 2009

Title:   Babies
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to information on health issues such as breastfeeding, immunisation, sleeping problems, weight gain and health checks.
Date:   Apr 2009

Title:   Playing with newborns
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   An introduction to the type of play newborns enjoy and how it helps their brains to develop.
Date:   Jan 2009

Title:   How you communicate with babies and toddlers
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Hints on ways to best communicate with your baby or toddler.
Date:   Dec 2008

Title:   Eating things that are not food
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Pica may be a sign that the child has a developmental, behavioural, emotional, nutritional or health problem.
Date:   Nov 2008

Title:   Crying baby
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   A baby's cry is distressing for parents, and it is meant to be. It is the baby's main way of letting people know that he needs help.
Date:   Nov 2008

Title:   About babies - their senses
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Newborn babies may seem very helpless and vulnerable, and in many ways they are, but they can see, hear, taste, smell and feel. They communicate their feelings and needs (such as their need for comfort and feeds) by crying.
Date:   Oct 2008

Title:   Right from the start
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Most parents know that the early years of a child's life are the building blocks for the future but why do the first few years matter so much?
Date:   Oct 2008

Title:   Toddler behaviour: in a nutshell
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   This in-a-nutshell guide looks offers ways to help encourage good behaviour in toddlers. It also offers tips on how you can help a toddler change her behaviour.
Date:   May 2008

Title:   Baby behaviour: in a nutshell
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   This in-a-nutshell guide explains how babies' innocent quest to learn drives their behaviour. It also addresses the early days of discipline, including why smacking doesn't work, whatever the age.
Date:   May 2008

Title:   Baby play and learning: in a nutshell
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   This in-a-nutshell guide explains how play helps children learn and offers some simple play ideas for babies aged 3-12 months.
Date:   May 2008

Title:   Aboriginal children's health
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Aboriginal children can have many health problems. Babies are more likely to be underweight, but most Aboriginal children in Australia are breastfed which protects against some illnesses. Middle ear infections, malnutrition and exposure to cigarette smoke are also problems for Aboriginal children.
Date:   Apr 2008

Title:   Playing with your baby
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   An introduction to the type of play babies enjoy and how it makes their brains develop. Includes advice on age-appropriate games and toys.
Date:   Jan 2008

Title:   Baby walkers
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   A baby walker consists of a rigid frame on wheels with a sling seat. Babies can sit in the seat before they are able to sit alone or crawl.
Date:   Dec 2007

Title:   Introducing drinks
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Information about why fruit juice, soft drinks, soy milk and similar products are unsuitable drinks to give your baby.
Date:   Aug 2007

Title:   A baby in the family
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Have you just heard that you're going to have a new baby in the family? Are you excited about it? Are you a bit worried about it? Maybe you haven't thought about it much? When you see the new baby, these are some things that you may notice first.
Date:   Aug 2007

Title:   Baby massage
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Western civilisation has only recently discovered the gentle art of baby massage, something that other cultures have been practicing for thousands of years.
Date:   Aug 2007

Title:   Love, talk, sing, read, play. Ideas to make the most of my child early development
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Hand out for parent and carer in how to make the most of child early development.
Date:   Aug 2007
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