Recently, Yaya suddenly stopped eating milk for a period of time and kept waking up in and out of sleep. She became very irritable and restless. At first, I thought Yaya had diarrhea? Peed? Feeling uncomfortable? Not enough breast milk? When all possibilities were denied, Yaya's mother was completely overcome by frustration...

What happened to Yaya?

Yaya’s mother tried all the tricks, but when she found that Yaya still didn’t buy it, Yaya’s mother suddenly remembered!

"Oh my god! Has Ya Ya reached the leap stage?!"

So what is the leap stage?

"Brain Leap Period" comes from the book "The Wonder Weeks" by Hetty van de Rijt, Ph.D. and Frans Plooij, Ph.D., experts on child psychological development. The book says: "In the first two years after a baby is born, there will be eight peak periods of leap-forward development in brain development."

After each leap period, the baby will develop new skills and learn a new skill. A new way of perceiving the world is updated and iterated again and again until it is upgraded to the adult version.

Today, Yaya’s mother will share what parents should do when the baby is in the leap stage to better promote the baby’s intellectual development.

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Performance during the leap phase

During the leap phase, the most direct manifestations of the baby are irritability, crying and clinginess, and even difficulty eating and sleeping. Well, no matter how you coax it, it won’t work. This is often a sign that the leap period is coming.

But why does the baby become irritable?

Because every time you learn a new skill during the leap period, it means breaking an old habit. The running-in may seem simple but is actually difficult.

When the baby discovers his new skills, he will feel like, Yo! I'm so awesome! I can still eat with a spoon, I can’t believe it!

But when he fails most of the time and doesn’t know what to do, he will show irritability and frustration again! This development and change of the nervous system will naturally make them feel crazy.

In fact, we adults are sometimes the same...

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The cycle of the leap period

These ten leap cycles are roughly Weeks 5, 8, 12, 15, 23, 34, 42, 51.

Different babies will have different days before and after. Generally, the longer the leap period lasts, the longer it will last. It’s also easy to understand, because the skills that need to be mastered are becoming more and more complex.

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Specific performance

First leap (fifth week)

Basic signals:

Crying, screaming, irritable, eager to be close to mother, quiet when feeding, sleeping when held, and crying when put down ~

Learning skills:

Baby's body Around the fifth week, the brain nervous system begins to make its first leap, and you will find that the baby who loves his mother during the confinement period begins to change. The old people often say that the baby starts to be naughty after the confinement period, and this is officially the case.

The skills that babies need to learn at this stage include:

The time they look at objects becomes longer and the frequency increases;

The ability to respond immediately to surrounding sounds;

Smiling for the first time or more than before;

Making sounds in the mouth and expressing more frequently;

Smell and touch are also more sensitive .

(Note: The above do not necessarily appear at the same time. Different babies focus on different points. Some children love to make sounds, some love to stare at things, some love to touch, etc.

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After the first leap is completed, the baby's world will be more colorful than during confinement!

Recommended training methods for parents:

| Make more eye contact with your baby: Every time your baby stares at you, his memory will accumulate one more time, so adults should also be active respond.

| Skin-to-skin contact: Breastfeeding is the simplest and most direct method. The baby can look at the mother and hear her voice. You can also touch your baby more to increase the intimacy with your baby.

| Chat more with your baby: Don’t think that your baby can’t understand. In fact, your baby likes your mother to communicate with them very much, and slowly he will be able to master the rhythm of the conversation with you and use the “babble” voice. Responded to you.

The second leap (week 8)

Basic signals:

Learning skills:

For babies about two months old, He began a new way of understanding the world, identifying various things through hearing, seeing, smelling, touching, and tasting. He was able to recognize shapes, forms, structures, etc. that often appeared. For example, he discovered that his hands and feet made sounds.

The skills that babies need to learn at this stage are:

Control their own bodies: stretch their arms and kick their legs, change from lying on their back to lying on their side or even lying on their stomach;

Start Try to grab toys with your hands and learn to touch, hold and shake them;

Eyes can look at your own hands and feet;

Watch family members walking back and forth; be able to detect luminous objects;

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Like complex shapes and color combinations, such as abstract paintings, and like to watch adults' facial movements.

Likes to listen to adults chatting, and likes to make sounds such as a, o, e, m, etc.;

Recommended training methods for parents:

| Gentle blowing: use Blow gently on the side of the baby's face, and the baby will giggle at you. The baby will like this interaction very much.

| Respond positively to your baby's behavior: If your baby smiles at you, or babbling to you, you need to respond immediately by imitating your baby's voice or actions, so that your baby can experience the meaning of his language. value, they will be more willing to express it.

| Training the baby to laugh: At this time, the baby has already smiled back. You can often try to make the baby laugh, if the baby doesn't like to laugh.

The third leap (week 12)

Basic signals:

Learning skills:

The third leap, appearing in Around the 12th week, when the baby is nearly three months old. With the first two experiences, the baby begins to realize that visual, auditory, taste, smell, and touch can all undergo continuous gradual changes. For example, the tone of voice can transition from high to low, and the light can change from bright to dark. Transformation and more.

The baby's movements are smoother and smoother than before, and his vision is almost close to that of an adult.

The baby will learn the following skills:

Can turn from supine to prone;

Likes to lift the buttocks hard when changing diapers;

Can grab toys with both hands;

Puts everything in his mouth;

Can observe his own feet and can put his feet in his mouth;

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Can recognize small and large sounds, can pronounce vowels, and use them to "chat";

Begins to express different behaviors with different people;

Long-term Time spent playing with one toy can get boring.

Recommended training methods for parents:

| Small interactions with the baby: for example, you can puff up your cheeks and let the baby touch them, and blow "huff" when touching them ; For example, you can ask your baby to pat your forehead, and you can raise your eyebrows while patting; for example, you can ask your baby to scratch your ears, and when you scratch them, stick out your tongue at him... Repeat this exercise slowly and slowly. Slowly, babies will discover the cause-and-effect relationships between some actions and phenomena.

| Guide him to touch various objects: The objects at home are all new to the baby. Hold the baby around and hold his little hand to guide him to touch, such as the floor-to-ceiling windows at home, bedroom doors, and balconies. Leaves of plants, hangers for drying clothes, etc. can exercise your baby's sensory abilities.

The fourth leap (week 19)

Basic signals:

The fixed combination of each leap period must include crying, just get used to it; He is no longer satisfied with being held horizontally and wants to be held vertically; he sleeps less and wakes up easily; he begins to show obvious fear of life, and his mood fluctuates significantly; he eats his thumb frequently.

Learning skills:

Around the 14th to 19th week after birth, the baby begins its fourth leap. What is taken for granted in the adult world is extremely novel to babies. For example, why can they still fall to the ground when they jump up? Mom was here just now, why is she missing now? Nothing is unpredictable for them.

The skills the baby needs to learn at this stage are:

Consciously trying to crawl forward, but not yet able;

Consciously trying to lift the buttocks Move the body, but can’t do it yet

You can sit alone briefly with your hands on the ground;

You can lie down and raise your head, and you can use your arms to support your chest;

Can slowly lift the gauze covering the face, or find a partially covered toy;

Deliberately throws toys to the ground, and never tires of doing so;

Can understand Functions of toys, such as picking up a toy phone and dialing;

Reacting to yourself in the mirror, acting weird or giggling;

Suggested training methods for parents:

| Mirror game: train your baby to see themselves in the mirror. If you hold him, move, and smile at him in the mirror, he will also wave and smile at his "little friend" in the mirror.

| Practice turning over: When the baby is lying down, put a small toy he likes in front of him to attract his attention, and then move the toy to the other side to help the baby practice turning over.

| Free touch: Use a soft cotton towel, pure cotton rags, etc. to gently brush the child's cheeks, belly and legs, and describe to him the feeling of these things. .

The fifth leap (week 23)

Basic signals:

Crying, crying, crying; little sleep; poor appetite; dislike Being changed, such as resisting changing clothes or diapers.

Learning skills:

The fifth leap of the baby's brain occurs from the 22.5th week to the 26.5th week, which is when the baby is about five and a half months to six and a half months old.

At this time, the baby will think that if he can't see his mother, he means that he has disappeared, and the baby's "separation anxiety" will gradually appear. This series of new discoveries has made babies uneasy again. In addition, most babies start to grow teeth during this period. So this leap period seems very tricky.

Babies will learn the following during this period:

Be able to stand with support, and some babies will show walking and stepping movements;

When being supported to stand, their legs will jump Movement (knee bounce);

Have the consciousness to crawl, and through the crawling posture, the body can move forward;

Can pick up small objects with the thumb and index finger;

Lift the handkerchief and see what's underneath;

Try to put one toy inside another;

Take off your socks and pull the shoelaces;

Throw things down from the dining chair and look for fallen objects;

Put food into mother’s mouth;

Suggested parent training methods:

丨Hide and seek: Hide the baby's favorite toy and let the baby find it, or let the mother hold the baby. If the father hides behind the mother, the baby will turn around and look for the father.

丨 Moving objects: For example, moving the crib where the baby sleeps to the other side of the big bed, moving the dining chair where the baby eats to the other side of the dining table, etc.

丨 Tissue paper: The baby likes to hold the paper box and pull out the facial tissue from the paper box. In fact, this itself is also a game that can exercise your baby's senses.

The Sixth Leap (Week 34)

Basic signs:

Frequent crying, sudden temper tantrums, uncertainty; more clinging to mother than before , developed separation anxiety; began to have "nightmares"; refused to change diapers; became attached to his "companion doll", ate his fingers, and acted more like a baby.

Learning skills:

The sixth leap occurs between the 33.5th and 37.5th weeks of full-term birth, approximately between the 8th and 9th months. This leap usually lasts four weeks, but some babies shorten it to three weeks or extend it to six weeks.

In this leap, he will master the following:

Identify a category, such as animals and food;

Recognize different people and their voices , behavior;

Can identify the same person in different environments;

See a person in the room and find him in the mirror.

When your favorite doll falls on the floor, you will comfort it in your own way;

When you want something, you will please your mother;

If you see other babies crying, you will cry too;

Suggested training methods for parents:

| Play with toys: Give your baby different types of toys with different colors and touches. While playing, you can not only exercise his grasping skills but also develop his senses and touch.

| Imitate the baby's movements: Imitating the baby's laughter, movements, etc. can increase the baby's interest in doing movements and encourage him to do new explorations.

The seventh leap (week 42)

Basic signals:

During the brain leap, the baby still exhibits the following symptoms throughout the process: crying and bad temper , moody; constantly tossing; becoming naughty and grabbing everywhere;

Learning skills:

The seventh leap occurs from the 41.5th to 46.5th week of full-term birth, that is, the seventh leap The period from the ninth and a half months to the tenth and a half months.

When a baby wants to operate two objects, before taking action, he will first observe and think about the relationship between the two objects, such as putting one inside the other? Or stack two things on top of each other? Or connect them?

For example: when a baby wants to stack two blocks, he will first pick up one block and align it with the other block.

After the baby's brain passes the seventh leap, he will master the following skills:

Consciously read books and make different sounds according to different pictures;

Find Use objects that you can push to help you learn to walk; find objects that you can hold on to get where you want to go; when being held, you can use your fingers to point to where you want to go;

Will do before taking action See if you can reach the next object that can be held on your own;

Repeat a favorite game;

Use various methods to induce your mother to play games with you, such as pretending that you can’t do it or through baby talk;

Learn to hide and seek, hide things by yourself, and be very happy when your mother finds them;

Will imitate one or two when listening to children's songs Actions you have done before, such as shaking your body or jumping (without jumping off the ground);

Recommended training methods for parents:

| Telling stories: Tell your baby stories regularly every day, And you can try changing the protagonist in the story to a baby.

| Building blocks: Let your baby come into contact with brightly colored building blocks to unleash your baby's imagination.

The Eighth Leap (Week 51)

Basic signs:

Extremely prone to crying, extremely clingy, always asking for mother’s hug; reluctant to give birth. As the severity increases, she will even cry when a stranger approaches; sometimes she becomes naughty and mischievous, and sometimes loses her temper for no reason; she is jealous of her mother being close to other people; and she occasionally returns to the baby.

Learning skills:

The eighth leap occurs between the 50.5th and 54.5th weeks of full-term birth, that is, between the eleventh and a half months to the twelfth and a half months, the baby will welcome On its first birthday, the baby is officially promoted to a toddler!

After this leap, babies will pay more attention to what adults are saying and play with toys by themselves. Mothers will be pleasantly surprised by their babies' independent and happy attitude, and may even find that their children are thoughtful.

In addition, they will also understand something by observing the behavior of family members. For example, when his mother brings watermelon, he knows that the fruit time has come, and he also hopes that he can eat some.

The following are the new skills that babies will gradually learn in the next few months after the eighth leap:

(It must be emphasized that not every baby will learn these skills right away. Can learn. Different babies have different learning speeds. Some babies may not even show up for some skills in the next few weeks or months. Mothers must not be anxious. Every baby has his own learning speed. . )

Take out the broom and start sweeping the floor;

Go into the bathroom to clean the toilet;

Get your mother clothes and shoes to indicate that you are going out;

Take out your own clothes and put them on;

When you are ready to eat, pick up your own bowl and spoon;

Use words or gestures to tell you that it is time to eat;

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Put the spoon into the bowl and mix happily;

Complete the whole process of making a phone call;

Observe the behaviors of family members such as dressing, eating, making phone calls, etc.

Suggested training methods for parents:

| Let the baby make his or her own decisions: such as what color bowl to use for dinner, what color clothes to wear today, etc. Giving your baby a certain right to choose can let your baby know that his or her thoughts are meaningful, while also enhancing his or her ability to identify things.

| Recognize who is who: Print out the photos of family members that your baby is familiar with, then show them to your baby, and let your baby find which one is the same person.

Yaya’s mother writes at the end

If you think that after helping your baby through the first ten most important WonderWeeks in life, the future will be bright, then you are too yang too simple.

As a person who has experienced it, Yaya’s mother tells you that after infancy, there will be different leaps in early childhood, childhood, and even adolescence. Look forward to it~