Your Baby Is Speaking To You: A Visual Guide to the Amazing Behaviors of Your Ne

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Captures the precocious communications strategies babies demonstrate from the moment they are born. This title illustrates the full range of behaviours - early smiling to startling, feeding to sleeping, listening to your voice and recognizing your face.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

From an international expert on infant-parent communication, a rich and accessible gift book on baby "language," gorgeously illustrated with forty black-and-white photographs.Through intimate access to babies and their families, Dr. Kevin Nugent and acclaimed photographer Abelardo Morell capture the amazingly precocious communications strategies babies demonstrate from the moment they are born.Your Baby Is Speaking to You illustrates the full range of behaviors—early smiling to startling, feeding to sleeping, listening to your voice and recognizing your face. The newest research—including information on subtle and fleeting behaviors not seen or explained in any other book—illuminates the meaning of the things babies do that concern and delight new parents: – the language of yawning – the rich range of cries, and how to understand their meanings – baby's earliest "sleep smiles" and sleep states, and what they signify.Your Baby Is Speaking To You delivers the information parents crave in gentle, accessible style while giving parents the confidence they need to respond to their own baby's way of communicating during the very first astonishing days and the months beyond.

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Delivers the information that parent's crave, giving them the confidence they need to respond to their baby's own way of communicating.

Author Biography

Kevin Nugent, Ph.D., is director of the Brazelton Institute at Children's Hospital, Boston, where he has led studies of newborn infants and early parent-child relations for over three decades. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Harvard Medical School. With T. Berry Brazelton, he developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale, used in hospitals around the world. Nugent and colleagues also created the Newborn Behavioral Observations system, designed to help parents understand their baby's behavior.

Table of Contents

Contents Introduction ix Sleeping, Crying, Eating The Sleeping Baby 2 Deep Sleep 4 Light Sleep 6 The Full Cry 8 Fussing 10 The Search Response 12 Feeding 14 The Amazing Newborn The Fencer Response 18 Hand to Mouth 20 The Sleep Smile 22 First Steps 24 Hands 26 Pre-Reaching 28 The Smile of Discovery 30 Crawling 32 Feet 34 Yawning 36 Your Baby's Senses Responding to Sounds 40 Visual Exploration 42 Touch 44 Cuddliness 46 The Not Very Cuddly Baby 48 Settling In Startles 52 Drowsiness 54 Overstimulation 56 Signs of Distress 58 Soothability 60 The Not Easily Settled Baby 62 The Social Newborn Looking into Your Eyes 66 Feeding and Communication 68 The Power of Your Voice 70 Imitation 72 Learning 74 Temperament 76 The Social Smile 78 The Growing Baby, The Bigger World Reaching Out 82 Exploring 84 Empathy 86 Learning to Love 88 Parent and Baby and the Lifelong Bond 91 Author's Note 101 Photograher's Note 105

Review

"In this gorgeous book on early infancy, physician Nugent and photographer Morell provide a stunning layout combined with rich, graceful text... This is, quite simply, a beautiful and elegant book, appropriate for anyone who has ever loved, or wants to love, a baby." -- Library Journal, starred review —

Review Quote

"No other book so beautifully captures and decodes the way babies 'speak' to us."

Excerpt from Book

Introduction Shortly after I came to Children''s Hospital in Boston more than three decades ago, I had the opportunity to attend hospital rounds with Dr. Berry Brazelton, acknowledged even then as a pioneer in infancy research. I still remember watching the steel-framed crib being wheeled into a quiet corner of the newborn nursery and seeing the tiny one-day-old infant, tightly swaddled, her head covered with a cotton bonnet, with only her small pink face peeping out. We all became silent as the young mother entered. She sat by the crib with an expression of anxiety and vulnerability, understandably self-conscious in the presence of the white-coated observers. As Dr. Brazelton began to unswaddle the baby, I did not know what to expect. Not yet a father, I assumed that a one-day-old was just a very tiny baby, nothing more. He tested her foot reflexes and flexed her arms and legs, examining her muscle tone. By now the baby was wide awake, and suddenly Dr. Brazelton was holding a red ball about twelve inches from her eyes. Can a newborn baby really see? I wondered. At that very moment her eyes locked onto the bright ball and began to track it. "She can see!" the mother blurted, shaking her head in disbelief. When Dr. Brazelton began to talk to the baby in lilting tones -- using her first name, Sarah -- her eyes widened and brightened. There was nothing random about her responses now. Her look was steady, and there was a sureness to the back-and-forth, give-and-take rhythm of the interaction between baby and doctor. It was on that day that I encountered for the first time the powerful gaze of the human newborn. This one-day-old baby was no passive organism waiting for the world to shape her destiny. Sarah''s ability to see and hear was indisputable, but it was her seemingly natural curiosity, her readiness to engage and connect with her environment that so impressed me. She was indeed a person. But when I caught sight of the young mother, her eyes now filled with tears as she pressed her infant close to her breast, repeating her name, no longer conscious of our presence, my thoughts were arrested for the second time that day. I was struck by the strength and tenderness of the mother-infant bond. It was as if this mother had just discovered the sheer depth of her feelings toward her baby. But if the relationship between Sarah and her mother was transformed on that day, so was I profoundly changed. Indeed, I link my professional interest in child development to that moment. Witnessing this newborn''s amazing capabilities and the dramatic effect they had on her mother in those early hours of her life on that winter day at the old Boston Lying-In Hospital was undoubtedly instrumental in turning my life in a new direction. It was only later that I came to realize that it was an experience in my own childhood that had infused this change of direction with such an unexpected sense of predestined certitude. My response to baby Sarah was an echo of the time when I cared for my own baby brother after our mother died. I was not yet eleven years old, so the loss of my mother seemed like the end of love and security. I felt abandoned and alone, overwhelmed by feelings of vulnerability, sadness, hurt, emptiness, and loss. But looking after my baby brother -- holding him, feeding him, changing him, playing with him, wheeling his pram down the street in our small town in Ireland -- somehow drew me out of my grief and loneliness. It enabled me to fill in the emptiness and rebuild my sense of trust in a world that had seemed suddenly devoid of love and security. The experience set me on a path to recapturing my original innocence and grasping some element of hope. Over the years, with a certain inevitable determinism, my work at Children''s Hospital has tended to focus on the capacity of babies to connect with and have a transforming effect on their caregivers. Research has made it clear that babies are biologically programmed to be pro-social organisms who actively seek contact with those around them. The social newborn is indeed a masterpiece of creation, with the capacity to change and transform all who come into his orbit. Your Competent Newborn Because they are born with a rich behavioral repertoire, newborns are able to engage in face-to-face, eye-to-eye exchanges for brief periods. This readiness to connect with their caregivers is made possible by a wide range of visual, auditory, and perceptual abilities that enable infants to explore the world around them. We now know that babies are drawn more to human faces than to anything else and that they can even distinguish a happy expression from a sad one. A newborn''s hearing is so fine-tuned that she can detect a missing beat in a musical pattern and, more important, can recognize the sound of her mother''s voice. Babies have a well-developed sense of taste right from the start and can also clearly recognize their mother''s smell. And, because the sensory cortex is the most developed area of the brain at birth, a newborn''s sensitivity to touch is already exquisitely developed. But simply listing these discrete abilities does not do justice to the full richness of your baby''s behavioral repertoire. It is how he integrates all these competencies in a coherent, even purposeful, way that reveals his unique, individual personhood. Taken together, these remarkable capacities enable your infant to face the major developmental task that lies ahead, namely to form an enduring attachment bond with you.

Description for Library

Nugent, director of the Brazelton Institute of Children's Hospital, Boston, and author with T. Terry Brazelton of the widely used Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale, here shows newbie parents what all those yawns, shrieks, cries, and little smiles mean. He's helped along by images from photogra-pher Morell, who's exhibited in major museums worldwide. America's parents are ever desperate, so this should do well.

Details ISBN0547242956 Author Kevin Nugent Pages 128 Language English Photographer Abelardo Morell ISBN-10 0547242956 ISBN-13 9780547242958 Media Book Illustrations Yes Year 2011 Edition Description None Short Title YOUR BABY IS SPEAKING TO YOU Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2011-03-05 Imprint HarperPaperbacks Place of Publication New York Subtitle A Visual Guide to the Amazing Behaviors of Your Newborn and Growing Baby Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Format Paperback DEWEY 649.122 Audience General AU Release Date 2010-12-26 NZ Release Date 2010-12-26 Imprint US Harper Paperbacks Publisher US HarperCollins Publication Date 2011-01-13 US Release Date 2011-01-13 We've got this

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