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How your baby’s brain develops
Nancy Slessenger, a brain expert, explains how your baby’s brain continually grows and develops throughout pregnancy and explains why diet and the lifestyle choices that you make can have such an impact upon your unborn child. The anticipation that a pregnant woman experiences whilst awaiting the birth of her child can be excruciating: counting down the weeks, estimating…
Posted in Baby, Baby Development, Child Development
Tagged Baby, baby development, Birth, Boy, Brain, Central nervous system, Child development, dyslexia, Girl, Language, Motor skills, Pregnancy, womb
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Giving birth makes mothers smarter
13th October 2008 Giving birth makes mothers smarter Giving birth supercharges brain power to equip women for the challenge of rearing their child, according to scientists. The same researchers found that women often experienced a decline in mental abilities during pregnancy, thought to be a result of the brain being remodelled. But after birth, the…
Let’s play!
24 August 1999 Let’s play! You don’t have to be little to love playing – grown-ups who play appear to live longer! Studies also show that younger parents have more playful children, and that second-borns tend to be more playful than first-borns, because they always have a playmate on tap. In the animal kingdom, play…
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Tagged Brain, Ethology, Learning, Play, Sexual attraction
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Preferred Hand Is Determined In The Womb
Whether a person is right or left-handed is decided in the womb, according to a report published in New Scientist Magazine. The research by a team from Belfast’s Queen’s University, suggests that the hand a 10-week old foetus favours is the one they will prefer to use throughout life. In one part of their study,…
The Practical step-by-step guide to toddlers
Lovable, cheeky, infuriating and challenging… toddlers are all of these and more. If only they came with an instruction book… well, now they do with the Haynes Toddler Manual, out now in paperback. This is a practical, down to earth guide designed specifically for Dads. How do you recognise if your child is ill? How…
