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Brain Builders

Stimulating Activities for Your 1-month-old Baby

By Tammy Morey

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The following exercises were designed to help your baby work on many of these skills. Keep in mind they will stimulate your baby's entire body. They shift from upper body to lower body to allow a rest period between exercised areas and to, thus, avoid overworking a muscle group. Each time you perform the exercise, your baby is actually responding; his brain will be registering the action, and his muscles will be getting stronger.

Activities

Engine, Engine
Engine, engine number nine
Sliding down Chicago line
When she's polished she will shine
Engine, engine number nine

Begin by placing Baby on his back and have him clasp your thumbs in his hands. Place your fingers over his hands to secure this grip.

While saying the first line, cross Baby's arms acoss his chest and then uncross his arms straight out to the sides at about shoulder height. For the second line, raise Baby's arms straight above his head and then lower them down to his sides. Say the third line while raising Baby's right arm over his head and lowering his left arm straight to his side. Then, finish the rhyme by gently lowering Baby's right arm to his side and raising his left arm over his head (alternating arm raises).


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