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These are some of the ways in which you can play with you 10 month old child:
• Encourage your child to imitate what you do. Clap your hands, pull your nose, toss a ball and get your child to do these things just like you. Then start improvising on the theme. For instance, you pull your child’s nose, so that your child pulls yours.
• Children at this age are fascinated about how things fit inside other things. Show your child how to collect assorted toys and put them into a box. Then teach your child to empty the box into another container.
• Hide a toy inside a box or bag and encourage your child to retrieve it.
• Teach your child to balance blocks to build a column and then give it a nudge to see it collapse.
• Show your child how to push a ball or a toy truck along. Play a game where both of you push the toy across the floor to each other.
It is important that you remember that these play sessions are primarily meant to be enjoyed. Do not force your child to ‘learn’ at the cost of fun. Allow you’re the baby space to grow and develop. However, if you are concerned about some aspect of your child’s behavior, consult your pediatrician.
This is our Pastor's wife, Julie Roberts, who had a lot of trouble conceiving her first baby fourteen years ago. When a baby did not come along in a few years, the couple felt the urging to adopt a needy child. There was a young lady in their congregation at the time that just could not handle having a baby due to circumstances, and they decided to adopt her and give her a great home. She became Noel, because they got her around Christmas time. Then, when she was about three or four, suddenly, they became pregnant and had Chantelle. They did not use birth control and no more babies have happened in fourteen years, but in the meantime, they have adopted three more sons from needy homes and are great parents, and great shepherds for our little home missionary church in Ogden Utah.
Then this little miracle came alone, and after the initial surprise, since she is 37 years old already, they welcomed the idea of another little one! A family with six children, all equally loved and cared for...imagine! I had trouble with just having three. But God knows what he is doing, sending just the right number of children to the right parents.
Eden Patience Roberts was born on Monday afternoon, was five pounds, nine ounces and was 18 inches long. Ron, her daddy, said that he has caught fish that were longer than she is.
I have not been able to see her yet, because I did not dare go near her with this coughing (altho I think I am on the mend again) but my husband, Lawrence took these photos for me (and all of my friends) to see. They say that so far, she is a very quiet baby, only giving a little wail when she needs attention. But then, with a whole tribe to watch out for her, I think she is going to have quite enough attention! Isn't she a doll?
Shadeofgray brings us news that for the first time in fourteen years, a baby rhino has been born at the Dublin Zoo. The white rhinoceros is a species that was near extinction due to an abundance of hunting, however this little miracle is a sign of hope in rekindling the species.
The rhino calf is a female weighing in at 70kg (154lbs) and has yet to be given a name, though it is speculated that a public contest will be held for that purpose.
White rhinos are fully mature and ready to mate at around 6-years-old. Hopefully in another six years, this young calf will be bear her own young and help to revive the endangered species.
Yesterday night I got no sleep at all, Rose kept waking up and wanting to be held, or needed an hourly diaper change...I'm surprised I survived, but today I slept about six hours during the day, during which Rose was sound asleep, ugh.
I hope she gets her days and nights back to normal, I really like to sleep at night ...:)
How is everybody else? Getting more sleep than myself I hope :)
As a dad, sometimes it's hard to know what to do with a newborn, especially if when you're new to all this. Don't let the awkwardness get in the way of spending time getting close to your new little guy or girl.
Here are a few fun things dads can do that you might try:
1. Strip the baby down to nothing or a diaper and lay him or her on a white sheet or blanket. Grab your camera and set the exposure controls to the smallest aperture possible - f12 or f16. Take a good inventory of the baby body parts (with obvious exceptions). With the smallest exposure setting, only what you are directly focusing on will be in focus in the shot.
2. Take pictures of your baby naked held in the palm of your hand. The window of opportunity for this is small so does it now. If you don't, a year from now you'll be at a party and see this kind of photo hanging in someone's hallway and you'll regret the opportunity that will never come again.
3. Strip down to the waist and enjoy the sensation of a newly bathed baby lying on your chest. This is the closest we can get to what moms feel, and it's not half bad. I wouldn't do it every day, but it's not bad. You will feel closer to your child than you did moments before, if only because you literally are closer to him.
4. Go for a stroll anywhere with the baby in a baby Bjorn, and enjoy the unique feeling of being a new dad. Everyone else will know you are as well.
5. Fall asleep with baby on your chest (just make sure mom is around to remove him in case you roll around).
6. Read a book to your baby. Love for books and reading starts early with experience and role models.
And some things not to do:
1. Resist the temptation to set your newborn baby in a salad bowl or flowerpot. You'll feel very guilty about the frightened look they get when you make fun of them.
2. And seriously, never, ever leave the baby unattended on counter, changing table, or in the bath, even for just a moment.
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