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Baby's First Emotions
Learning to Identify and Nurture Little Feelings
"The key to understanding your baby's emotional development is to use your baby as a guidepost," Folds says. "Read her facial expressions, her posture. She'll let you know what she needs and where she's going from here."
That, coupled with a few tips from pediatricians and child development experts, can help parents feel surer of their parenting skills and help Baby develop a healthy sense of emotions.
Guiding Emotional Development
The best place to start is to develop and maintain routines with your baby, according to Dr. Unger. "Babies need to feel regulated to feel calm," she says. "You need to establish healthy sleeping and eating patterns. That's very important for their emotional development. Without it, you may find yourself with a baby that is crying more and generally unsatisfied." Paents should provide their baby with encouragement, too, she says. "When your baby smiles at you, smile back; if he can't quite reach that toy, move it a little closer so that he can."
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