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When to be Concerned, Immunization, Injury Prevention, Nutrition Physical Examination & Emotional Develoment Family Relationship & Community Face Recognition
BrilliantBaby.com Recommendations (2 months old)
·When talking to her, hold her about 10 inches from your face.
·Make sure she is alert with wide eyes open.
·Make your voice as animated and enthusiastic as possible.
·Make funny faces so she can imitate you.
·Make her smile and grin as often as possible.
·Call her name as often as possible.
·Keep talking to her and describe what you are doing
·Avoid background noises so she can focus at one sound at a time
·Use short phrases and sentences and keep repeating them
·Sing or recite a rhyming poem as often as possible
·Avoid shrill loud voices or noises.
·Read to her as often as possible.
Recognize her early signs of being bored, tired, hunger, and sleepiness and stop your learning interactions when these signs start to show
Physical play is her enjoyment; pat her feet, tickle her belly, count toes and fingers, massage her head
Play coordinated with animated verbal interactions stimulates her orbitofrontal cortex which is extremely important in the formation of attachment
Play combined with an enthusiastic voice of the parent is the root of a trusting relationship
Creating a daily series of shared attentions, physical play, and animated interactions between you and her builds a strong foundation for emotional, cognitive, language, and quantitative development in the future
Avoid using the television or video at all cost to stop your baby from crying or for any activities at all
Social & Emotional Development of a Two Month Old
·Enjoys very much attention from parents
·Smiles more if you smiles to her
·Begins to amuse herself when left alone by looking & tracking objects
·Looks at you while you feed and talk to her
·Makes gazes and little sounds that are directed at adults
Cognitive & Thinking (2 months old)
·Distinguishes between people, voices, & tastes
·Discriminate between female and male voice
·Can distinguish between sequences of disyllables and sequences of trisyllables.
·Detect changes of phonemes better when they occur as part of short sentences than in a lists of words.
·Likes listening to music & song
·Uses the left hemisphere of the brain more for speech discrimination.
·Uses the right hemisphere of the brain more for musical sounds.
·Controls vision more accurately and looks at an object moved in a pattern
·Becomes excited in anticipation such as the sight of the bottle
·Begins to coordinate her senses by turning & looking toward sounds
Language & Communication (2 months old)
·Moves her eyes to search for the source of a sound or noise
·Uses a couple of distinct but meaningless sounds
·Becomes quiet when she is lifted
·Looks at gestures and body language of parents talking to her
·Makes cooing, repetitive vowel sounds when happy
·May develop special vocalization indicating hunger
·Repeats sounds or coos when parent smiles & talks to her
·May demand attention by vocal fussing
·More responsive to mothers facial expression than anybody else
·More inclined to smile at familiar adults than stranger
Hand-Eye Coordination
·Begins hand control
·Opens hand with fingers getting flexible
·Grasp reflex is gone
·Close fingers around an object placed in her palm & bring to face
·Tries but can't reach accurately for a toy
Motor Activity (2 months old)
·Holds a small toy for a few seconds
·Lifts head off the mattress when on belly position
·Some control over arms & legs
·Neck may support the weight of her head when she is carried
·Can turn her head towards a rattle or light
·May visually follow a moving object
·Has vigorous kicking during bath, a good indication of muscle development
When to be Concerned, Immunization, Injury Prevention, Nutrition Physical Examination & Emotional Develoment Family Relationship & Community Face Recognition
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Leo Leonidas, MD, FAAP, Assistant Clinical Professor in Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston; Attending Pediatrician, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, Maine
Please send my your suggestions and comments to improve this site:
lleonidas@pcpediatrics.org
I wrote and desinged this website for parents of our practice. Before you use ideas from this website, please discuss it first with your clinician if you are not with our practice.
copyright Leo Leonidas 2002
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