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Baby's sense of touch is the most developed sensation since birth and helps form precious early connections between you and your baby. Encouraging touch can also help your baby reach key developmental milestones. There are some simple ways to stimulate your baby's sense of touch from birth, look at these...
1. Skin contact
Holding your baby tight, new parents can use simple kangaroo-style care methods to encourage premature babies to use, especially a good way to build strong relationships with dads. It's a simple way to hold a child, like a kangaroo holding a child. Take off your baby with only a diaper, have him stand upright on your bare chest, and use your shirt as a kangaroo nursery bag to keep your baby warm.
2. Embrace and stay intimate
As your baby grows, hugging is just as important. All these cute hugs help your baby get familiar with your body, which is important for your baby's development.
3. Encourage grabbing
There is nothing more precious than a newborn grabbing your finger with his little hand. Not only cute, but also important as the first development milestone. You may have noticed that when you touch the palm of a newborn baby's hand with your fingers, they instinctively hold your hand with their small hands. This first grasp and touch is comforting for your baby.
4. Hug baby massage
Why not try a baby massage? It's a great activity for you and your baby, and it has some real benefits for your baby as well. Massage stimulates the central nervous system, it contributes to healthy weight gain and healthy growth. Before undressing your baby, make sure the room is warm and not dressed.
5. Chew
One day, your baby can't help but put everything in his mouth. The mouth is full of tactile sensors, and as your baby sucks, chews and drools, he learns a lot from exploring different shapes and textures. Obviously, some things are not for eating, so be vigilant at all times.
6. Create a treasure trove of textures
Reading a book about the baby's touch and feel together is a great way to connect with your baby. Take the time to read and let your baby explore the different textures and sensations on each page with his fingers. Try touching different textures, such as "hard" or "soft". The tactile experience of different texture elements, such as water, clay and sand, is a great place to learn and stimulate. In cluttered play, babies can develop their fine motor skills, coordination, and use their hands to compare different sensations and textures. This fun activity will help your baby learn how to collect and process information through touch.
7. Play with water in the bathtub
Babies usually like the feeling of being soaked in water. Use some bubble baths that are not irritating to babies to enhance their experience. As they get older, they will enjoy further exploring their infant sense of touch by blowing and playing with foam, among other things.
8. Encourage grabbing food with your hands
Once the weaning begins, the baby has a whole new opportunity to explore his sense of touch. Parents should be on the sidelines, but try to eat as much as possible on his own. When he picks up food with his fingers and puts it in his mouth, he will enjoy experiencing all the different senses of touch. It's also a great exercise for him to develop fine motor skills, just to be prepared that more stuff will fall on the floor and windows than in the mouth!
9. Help develop spatial awareness
Spatial awareness and the baby's sense of touch develop simultaneously. At two months of age, it is still necessary to put things in the palm of your baby's hands and let them hold and explore, but as they grow older, give them the opportunity to pick up things on their own. These toys have different parts that can be grabbed, pushed, pulled and twisted. By the time they are five months old, babies will happily lift and hold while inadvertently using their sense of touch to assess distance and space.
