Your Baby Week By Week
Your unique baby will develop according to their very own blueprint. However, there are some typical stages which most full-term babies will progress through around the same age. Babies born pre-term will often reach the same stage when we adjust their age to gestational age.
Parents are often challenged at similar stages: as breastfeeding is established, as sleep evolves and changes, as crying and unsettledness occur.
So here we have gathered information you might find useful around about the stage you might need it.
Welcome to your baby, week by week .
Here you will find the first three months - stay tuned for more soon!
Week Thirteen
As your baby turns three months old, we mark the end of this period informally known as The 4th Trimester. This gentle introduction to life outside the womb has supported your baby through this most vulnerable period. Like a bridge between womb and world, they are now more ready to begin exploring the world.
Week Ten
Your baby is increasingly developing skills which are useful in a world filled with sights and sounds. Their hearing has developed and they are beginning to track the movement of objects with their eyes. Movements are less jerky and they are gaining control of their head and neck. You will soon see indication they are working on intentional movement of their hands and moving their hand to their mouth on purpose. The central nervous system is developing down their spine and begin the coordinated movements so necessary in the second six months.
Week Six
Just when you might be starting to feel a bit more confident about caring for your baby - nature has a surprise for you!
Welcome to Wonder Weeks!
As well as a physical growth spurt, common around 4-6 weeks, this week will see significant brain development underway. If your baby was born on her due date, around five weeks she will experience the first Wonder Week.
Week Five
An uncomplicated start to breastfeeding will be paying off at this stage, with your milk supply well-established and your baby efficiently feeding directly from the breast. Some mothers might even find they have too much of a good thing. With an abundant milk production and a strong let-down reflex, they have babies who struggle with the flow and experience discomfort from overfull tummies. These babies tend to have above average weight gain, frequent, gassy bowel motions and sometimes bring up excess milk from distended stomachs.