newborn

Introduction
• The newborn teacher
• Observing and learning
• The Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale
• The newborn as a person

	What the Newborn Hears • Voice recognition • Higher and lower pitched voices • Talking to the baby • Hearing sounds and beginnings of language • How to communicate with your newborn through hearing
	What the Newborn Sees • How the baby sees you • Following an object • Visual range at birth: • Enjoying faces • Contrasts and patterns • Sensitivity to light • Individual differences • How to communicate with your newborn through seeing

	Crying • Types of cries • Amount and time of crying • Seven reasons why babies cry • How to communicate with your crying newborn
	Helping to Calm the Newborn • Seven ways to help calm a newborn • The Rhythm Method: • Calming through the heartbeat and other rhythmical methods • Self-calming • Calming your newborn: exploring some parent/baby interactions
	Adaptive Reflexes and Inborn Responses • Adaptive reflexes • Inborn responses for future development • Self-preservation or protective responses • Other adaptive reflexes • Observing the reflexes and responses
	The Six States of Infant Awareness • Sleep states • Waking states • Avoiding over-stimulation • Observing and responding to the six states of infant awareness

Feeding and Nurturing
• The infant’s tools for feeding:
         • Rooting
         • Sucking
         • Breast-feeding and bottle-feeding
• Emotional nurturing:
         • Emotional attunement
         • Bonding
• How a newborn communicates:
         • Responding to the baby’s individuality
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• How to communicate with your newborn through emotional nurturing

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