Your baby’s 10 spectacular progresses

Baby’s progress week by week

Week 5: the world of changing sensations

After having had very little time to get used to the outside world, outside of the warm embrace of your body, your baby sees his world change for the second time. This is the first leap: his reactivity to sensations increases drastically. Although everything looks the same to you, to him everything he sees, feels, hears, smells or tastes is different. He likes some of these changes, but not all of them, because he doesn’t yet know how to deal with them or ask you for help.

Week 8: the world of models

At around 8 weeks, your baby recognizes simple patterns in the world around him and in his own body. He bares his feet and hands, and spends hours controlling the positions of his arm or leg, hitting objects with his hands or feet. He is fascinated by the light that casts shadows on the wall of his bedroom. He studies the details of the cans on the supermarket shelves, he listens to himself making isolated noises, like “Ah, eh, ouh”. Suddenly he sees, hears, smells, tastes and feels in a completely different way and it will take time for him to adjust. Until he starts to feel comfortable in this new world, he will want to hold on to his mom for comfort. This time, the agitation phase could last from a few days to two weeks.

Week 12: the world of smooth transitions

At around 11 or 12 weeks old, like Pinocchio, your baby is ready to transition from a puppet to a real toddler. He becomes able to perceive that things are subtly changing around him. He selects the things that attract him. As always, you will need to be careful not to push him too hard, but to help him do only what he is prepared to do. He will need you to show him his surroundings, to put his toys where he can see them and grab them, and to react to his increasing attempts to communicate.

Week 19: the world of events

Around week 19, you will notice your baby trying to learn new skills over and over again. He discovers the world of events. Your baby can now learn how to adjust his body movements, and in particular his arm, hand and fingers, to reach the exact spot where the toys are, and he can learn to correct his movements while they are being made to to achieve his ends.

Week 26: the world of relationships

Your baby can now perceive the distance between one thing and another. For us adults it is obvious, but for a baby the world suddenly becomes a very, very big place in which it is only a very small point (which can however be very noisy!). Sometimes he may want something that is beyond his crib’s reach, and he has no way of reaching it. When his mother leaves, even if she just goes to the next room, for him it is as if she had gone to China if he cannot find her, because he is stuck in his bed or that he has not yet mastered the rampement. And although he crawls very well, he realizes that she is moving much faster than him and that she can get away from him. This discovery can be frightening for a baby and lead to a few very difficult weeks for his parents.

Week 37: the world of categories

Around 37 weeks (or 36 and 40 weeks), a baby’s explorations often seem very methodical. He picks up small objects that have fallen on the floor and keeps them between his thumb and forefinger to examine them studiously. He experiences the way a banana or spinach is crushed between his fingers. He conducts investigations that will help him categorize his world. He understands that certain objects, sensations, animals and people belong to groups or categories. For example, that bananas differ in look, taste and touch from spinach, but both are food. He finds out that he is the same kind of being as his mother, that he can move in exactly the same way she does, but that other things may or may not move in a very different way than human beings. move at all. This “leap into the world of categories” will affect every sense: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. He learns more about others, about his own emotions. His language skills are developing, he understands many more words.

Week 46: the world of sequences

Babies have an innate gift for making a mess, but around 46 weeks they suddenly start doing things that are the opposite of that behavior. Your baby is now ready to explore the world of footage. He understands that to achieve his goals, he must do things in a certain order for them to be successful.t. He tries to figure out how the objects fit together before he tries to put them into each other, on top of each other, or put them together. For example, he focuses on aiming before trying to put one cube on top of another, he drives a peg into a wake-up board after comparing the size of the peg to that of the hole. For the first time, he really gives the impression of being able to make connections.

Week 55: the world of programs

The end of the first year means for many parents the “beginning of the end” of early childhood. Now he manages to move nimbly and is ready to explore the world of programs. During the last leap in development, your baby has learned to master the notion of sequence, the fact that events follow one another or that objects go together in a defined way. Now he understands what it means to wash clothes, set the table, eat lunch, tidy up, dress, build a tower, make a phone call, and the millions of things of everyday life. These actions are all complex programs.

Week 64: the world of principles

Daily scheduled activities such as meals, shopping, walking, games now seem normal to him. Around 64 weeks, a little before 15 months, you will notice that he starts to try new things. He is about to land in the world of “principles”. Your little one will think things in advance, think, consider the consequences of his actions, make plans and evaluate them. He will put in place strategies: “Is it grandpa or grandma that I should ask for sweets?” “How do you make this last longer? Naturally, he does not master the development of projects as complex as ours. Like Alice in Wonderland, he begins to assimilate that from morning to night, he will have to make choices. Yes, he notices that it is inevitable: he must choose, choose, and choose again. Perhaps you have noticed that your little darling is endlessly hesitating about what to do. Thinking is a full-time job!

Week 75: the world of systems

For the first time in life, your baby will perceive “systems”. He perceives that with mum and dad they form a family. And that his family is not the same as that of his boyfriend, nor his house the same as that of his neighbors … Now, he applies the principles less rigidly, understands that he can choose for himself what he wants. he wants to be: honest, helpful, careful, patient, etc. To be or not to be, that is the question. The system he knows best is the one he lives with day and night: himself. He is a full person. When the world of systems opens up to him, he begins to develop his notion of identity. This has several consequences. He discovers that he owns and controls his own body. He also discovers that he can orchestrate certain actions, do things on his own, and that he can make decisions, all of which stem from the development of his concept of self.