Read on and you may not only sleep better, you’ll also understand your baby a whole lot better. Did you know #4? Pretty cool, huh? Image © Lisa Petkau/First Light/Corbis More from The Stir: Sleep Training: Dos & Don’ts of Letting Your Baby ‘Cry It Out’ When baby’s limbs move too quickly, even when sleeping, this can create a sensation that the baby is falling. So baby wakes up and is understandably upset — which is a good thing (believe it or not). “Having an appropriate startle reflex is actually a sign of a normal infant neurological system,” says Dr. Blanchard. To curb this reflex, swaddle your baby so the arms can’t flail, or just wait it out until 4 months, when the Moro reflex should fade. More from The Stir: How to Swaddle a Baby in 4 Easy Steps (PHOTOS) More from The Stir: The Clingy Baby Phase: How Long Did It Last? But a more popular theory today is that our amazing brains are to blame. “The human baby’s brain develops at such an astonishing speed, the mother’s metabolic rate simply can’t support such growth in utero,” says Cheryl Wu, MD, a pediatrician in New York. In other words, for reasons of self preservation, mom gives birth to a half-baked brain, which continues to develop outside the womb for many years without taxing mom too much (although we have to admit, it’s still very taxing). More from The Stir: 12 Ways to Make Your Baby Smart
title: “10 Most Baffling Baby Behaviors Explained” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-29” author: “Jeremy Kilgore”
Read on and you may not only sleep better, you’ll also understand your baby a whole lot better. Did you know #4? Pretty cool, huh? Image © Lisa Petkau/First Light/Corbis More from The Stir: Sleep Training: Dos & Don’ts of Letting Your Baby ‘Cry It Out’ When baby’s limbs move too quickly, even when sleeping, this can create a sensation that the baby is falling. So baby wakes up and is understandably upset — which is a good thing (believe it or not). “Having an appropriate startle reflex is actually a sign of a normal infant neurological system,” says Dr. Blanchard. To curb this reflex, swaddle your baby so the arms can’t flail, or just wait it out until 4 months, when the Moro reflex should fade. More from The Stir: How to Swaddle a Baby in 4 Easy Steps (PHOTOS) More from The Stir: The Clingy Baby Phase: How Long Did It Last? But a more popular theory today is that our amazing brains are to blame. “The human baby’s brain develops at such an astonishing speed, the mother’s metabolic rate simply can’t support such growth in utero,” says Cheryl Wu, MD, a pediatrician in New York. In other words, for reasons of self preservation, mom gives birth to a half-baked brain, which continues to develop outside the womb for many years without taxing mom too much (although we have to admit, it’s still very taxing). More from The Stir: 12 Ways to Make Your Baby Smart
title: “10 Most Baffling Baby Behaviors Explained” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-21” author: “Jeffrey Bagley”
Read on and you may not only sleep better, you’ll also understand your baby a whole lot better. Did you know #4? Pretty cool, huh? Image © Lisa Petkau/First Light/Corbis More from The Stir: Sleep Training: Dos & Don’ts of Letting Your Baby ‘Cry It Out’ When baby’s limbs move too quickly, even when sleeping, this can create a sensation that the baby is falling. So baby wakes up and is understandably upset — which is a good thing (believe it or not). “Having an appropriate startle reflex is actually a sign of a normal infant neurological system,” says Dr. Blanchard. To curb this reflex, swaddle your baby so the arms can’t flail, or just wait it out until 4 months, when the Moro reflex should fade. More from The Stir: How to Swaddle a Baby in 4 Easy Steps (PHOTOS) More from The Stir: The Clingy Baby Phase: How Long Did It Last? But a more popular theory today is that our amazing brains are to blame. “The human baby’s brain develops at such an astonishing speed, the mother’s metabolic rate simply can’t support such growth in utero,” says Cheryl Wu, MD, a pediatrician in New York. In other words, for reasons of self preservation, mom gives birth to a half-baked brain, which continues to develop outside the womb for many years without taxing mom too much (although we have to admit, it’s still very taxing). More from The Stir: 12 Ways to Make Your Baby Smart
title: “10 Most Baffling Baby Behaviors Explained” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-09” author: “Suzie Joosten”
Read on and you may not only sleep better, you’ll also understand your baby a whole lot better. Did you know #4? Pretty cool, huh? Image © Lisa Petkau/First Light/Corbis More from The Stir: Sleep Training: Dos & Don’ts of Letting Your Baby ‘Cry It Out’ When baby’s limbs move too quickly, even when sleeping, this can create a sensation that the baby is falling. So baby wakes up and is understandably upset — which is a good thing (believe it or not). “Having an appropriate startle reflex is actually a sign of a normal infant neurological system,” says Dr. Blanchard. To curb this reflex, swaddle your baby so the arms can’t flail, or just wait it out until 4 months, when the Moro reflex should fade. More from The Stir: How to Swaddle a Baby in 4 Easy Steps (PHOTOS) More from The Stir: The Clingy Baby Phase: How Long Did It Last? But a more popular theory today is that our amazing brains are to blame. “The human baby’s brain develops at such an astonishing speed, the mother’s metabolic rate simply can’t support such growth in utero,” says Cheryl Wu, MD, a pediatrician in New York. In other words, for reasons of self preservation, mom gives birth to a half-baked brain, which continues to develop outside the womb for many years without taxing mom too much (although we have to admit, it’s still very taxing). More from The Stir: 12 Ways to Make Your Baby Smart
title: “10 Most Baffling Baby Behaviors Explained” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-23” author: “Katherine Hill”
Read on and you may not only sleep better, you’ll also understand your baby a whole lot better. Did you know #4? Pretty cool, huh? Image © Lisa Petkau/First Light/Corbis More from The Stir: Sleep Training: Dos & Don’ts of Letting Your Baby ‘Cry It Out’ When baby’s limbs move too quickly, even when sleeping, this can create a sensation that the baby is falling. So baby wakes up and is understandably upset — which is a good thing (believe it or not). “Having an appropriate startle reflex is actually a sign of a normal infant neurological system,” says Dr. Blanchard. To curb this reflex, swaddle your baby so the arms can’t flail, or just wait it out until 4 months, when the Moro reflex should fade. More from The Stir: How to Swaddle a Baby in 4 Easy Steps (PHOTOS) More from The Stir: The Clingy Baby Phase: How Long Did It Last? But a more popular theory today is that our amazing brains are to blame. “The human baby’s brain develops at such an astonishing speed, the mother’s metabolic rate simply can’t support such growth in utero,” says Cheryl Wu, MD, a pediatrician in New York. In other words, for reasons of self preservation, mom gives birth to a half-baked brain, which continues to develop outside the womb for many years without taxing mom too much (although we have to admit, it’s still very taxing). More from The Stir: 12 Ways to Make Your Baby Smart
