Communication between the mother and the baby begins long before birth and continues increasingly. The baby learns and sees life, the outside world, and ultimately himself with his eyes with the guidance of her mother. For this reason, the communication with the baby is very influential and an important process in its development.
Babies who communicate with the mother and father in the first months after birth start to examine and communicate with the people in their surroundings after eight months. These communication skills, which are basically created with parents, are very important for the social and emotional development of babies. Baby needs to learn to communicate properly in order to be able to form self-confident, healthy behaviours.
Babies who react to many things in their mother's wombs, start to communicate from the beginning. From the 16th week, the mother will understand over time the voices that baby likes and does not like, who reacts to these voices with their movements and heartbeats. Making the baby listen to his favourite music Is one of the early period communication ways.
Your baby will communicate more with you after birth, even if it is not with a word yet he will try to establish eye contact, trying to follow your gaze, making meaningless noises, having a dialogue by smiling.
Even if your baby does not recognize your voice, he tries to listen to you and your voice is considerably important for her to feel safe and for her development. Babies, who can distinguish the tones of the mother's voice, calm down when the mother's voice is calm, and stress when the voice is tense. Talking to your baby in a calm, loving way is the best way to communicate with your baby both before and after birth. The baby listens to what his mother says and tries to distinguish, even he does not understand what it means.
Pay attention to making an eye contact while talking with your baby. You can draw his attention using different tones. You can tell what you are doing at that time, you can name objects as your baby grows. When your baby starts pointing at the objects, you can help him learn to use the names of the objects by repeating them. At the end of the first year, he will understand and respond to many things you say.
Touching your baby while communicating with him will strengthen the bond between you and the baby.
Music is one of the most beautiful ways to communicate with babies. Music relaxes, calms and entertains babies. The games that fit baby's age are communication methods that will be useful for baby's development.
You can read picture books to your baby, let your baby look, touch the book and interact with it. Asking your baby questions also allows interaction. Reading different characters of the story in different tones will be useful for the baby's language development and emotions.
Listening to your baby is the most important step in communication. Even if the baby cannot speak, he tries to communicate with you in many ways. Crying is one of the most important communication methods for language development. Try to understand what your baby means and pay attention to answer. Encourage your baby to talk, communicate, praise and reward when he does right.
When communicating with your baby, trust your baby's referrals instead of general information. Every baby is different, and your baby will tell you the truth about what he likes and what he wants.
