1. What can we expect from a baby in the first year?

2.  Monday – Physical Development
 Tuesday – Social/Emotional Development
 Wednesday – Intellectual Development
 Thursday – In-Class Assignment: Development
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3. Thomas Balmes’ documentary film “Babies”, 2010

4.  Not all babies develop at the same rate.
 Growth and development do not follow a timer, but are
greatly affected by external factors!
 Development is non-linear. Patterns of physical,
emotional/social and intellectual stages will overlap.
 “cross-influence” or interdependence.

5.  Growth: height, weight, proportion
 Sensory: sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, and vocal
abilities
 Motor Skills

6. Growth is the most rapid during the first year of life!!
Week #1 Week #52

7.  Head to Foot
 Growth begins with the head, and extends to the torso,
and eventually shoulders, arms, and legs.
 Near to Far
 Development starts at the trunk of the body and moves
outwards (learning to roll over, then crawl, walk)
 Simple to Complex
 Baby will transition from simple to complex tasks.
Slowly, this allows the baby to fulfill their own needs.

8.  Slight weight loss immediately after birth
 Triple their weight in the first year!
 Gain = 1-2 lbs for the first 6 Months
 Average Weight = 20-22 lbs at 1 year
 Physical Activity, Eating Habits
 And Heredity.
 Weight Gain is a “good health”
Indicator in newborns.

9.  Height is more “slow and steady” vs. Rapid weight
gain
 Average at Birth = 51 cm
 1 year = 76 cm
 Heredity has a greater
affect on height than
weight.

10.  Proportion - the size relationship of one thing to
another.
 Proportionally: Large head and torso, and tiny limbs,
vs. Adults with larger limbs
 Large head = rapid brain
development!
 ½ your total head growth
occurs before age 1.

12.  No light in the uterus = minimal vision development
 Uncoordinated muscles, “googly eyed”
 Eyes are often closed
 14 days = Can see 7 to 10 inches away
 2 Months = develop depth perception, “see in 3-D”
 3.5 Months = Normal Vision!
 Eye-hand coordination

13.  Hearing begins to develop long before birth
 At birth babies can tell sound direction
 Respond to tone, not meaning
 Hearing difficulties = trouble
speaking and listening
 Hearing tested by 6 Months

15.  Amniotic fluid prevents sense of smell
 At birth – responds most to unpleasant odours
 First few days – recognize familiar smells (Mom, Dad)
 Sense of taste develops quickly
 Differentiate between sweet,
salty, sour and water soon after
birth.
 Preference to sweet.

17.  Changes in throat, tongue, teeth and mouth allow
new foods, noises, cries and sounds
 Over time allows for “distinctive cries”
 Vowel sounds come first, but teeth are needed for
others
 Full words usually come after 1 year.
 Oral growth also allows for new foods/solids

18.  6-7 Months = primary teeth (first set)
 Teething - teeth forcing their way up through gums.
 Painful, swelling, bleeding, drooling
 Cranky, restless and wakeful
 2-10 days per tooth, occurs over 2 years.
What Helps?
 Teething ring, ice, cold liquids,
commercial meds, chewing.

19.  Motor Skills – Abilities that depend on the use and control
of muscles.
 Very dependent on physical growth, but affected by social
and intellectual as well.
 Head to Foot
 1 Month – lifting head
 3 Months – lifting chest
 4 Months – sit with head steady, rolling over
 5 -7 Months – reaching, pulls self up, “squirming”
 8-10 – crawling, walks when lead, picking up objects
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21.  Name that development! Be Specific and use
vocabulary from today!