During caregiving routines such as feeding, bathing, and diapering, provide your baby with various sensory experiences, including looking at and feeling your face or looking in the mirror.
Newborns explore and make sense of the world using their senses. Looking at babies face-to-face, making eye contact, and allowing them to explore your face both helps to build bonds as well as their inclination to explore more freely. Babies like to look at faces and can recognise their mothers' faces.
Looking at faces helps babies build self-awareness and self-regulation. These are important traits for when they start to think of creative solutions for problem-solving in later life. Piaget, J. (1962). Play, dreams, and imitation in childhood. New York: Norton Vernetti A., Ganea N., Tucker L., Charman T., Johnson M. H., Senju A. (2018). Infant neural sensitivity to eye gaze depends on early experience of gaze communication. Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 34 1–6. 10.1016/j.dcn.2018.05.007 Rochat, P. (2003). Five levels of self-awareness as they unfold early in life". Consciousness and Cognition. 12 (4): 717–731. USA
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