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There will never again be a time in your child's life when development progresses as rapidly as in the first three months of life. After the birth your baby will lose weight first of all. You do not need to worry about this, because this decrease is quite normal. It is part of the process of adaptation to the new life that takes place outside the womb. Even if the little ones know how to suck, they still have to learn how to drink first. About ten percent of the birth weight is lost in the first few days.

If your baby is around 10 days old, it will usually regain weight and grow between two and four centimetres in the first month.

A quarter of the body weight is the head of a newborn. To hold this, however, the strong muscles are still missing. In an adult, the head accounts for only ten percent of the body weight. At the beginning, the bladder of newborns is still very small, so that it can only absorb 60 to 100 ml of urine. In the same way the feeling for the bladder is not yet developed, why the newborns so often in the diapers make.

A baby's stomach is just the size of a hen's egg. Once they are full after feeding, a feeling of hunger quickly returns.

Therefore, it is not surprising that your newborn baby is regularly fed at night in order to satisfy the apparently insatiable hunger.

Newborns cannot yet consciously grasp and move. Even if the little ones hold on to one of your fingers by gently touching the palms of their hands, this movement is based on the gripping reflex.

After the first month, the newborn transforms and becomes a baby. You will notice that the facial features change, the waking phases become longer and the legs stretch. The musculature begins to develop. First the neck muscles are strengthened, then the shoulder and back muscles and finally the muscles in the legs. Already after four weeks your baby moves his mouth to talk to you.

Meanwhile, the time has also come when the head can be turned to the side.

In the sixth week you notice that your baby has grown.

At the same time, this growth spurt also ushers in a new phase of development. The hunger is getting much bigger. You will also notice that the little ones are satisfied or complacent.

In the second month of life the development into a social being takes place. Your baby smiles a lot and likes to and is therefore irresistible. The eyes become more alert and attentive. Eye contact is sought and the direct surroundings are observed with interested glances. The small humans grow up to 2,5 cm in the month and the head-circumference becomes bigger around 1,2 cm. It is not an old wives' tale that babies grow overnight and grow between three and four centimetres in size in the second month. Towards the end of the second month, the little ones begin to grasp with their hands and can fix objects with their eyes that are not more than 25 cm away.

The third month is an exciting transition period. Skills are practiced that are very important for further development. Your baby sleeps less and wants you to play with him and entertain him. In this time the baby bacon develops. Whereas the proportion of fat at birth was just 10 percent, it is now around 30 percent. This higher fat content is a good protection against small diseases that strain the body. The muscles develop further and become stronger so that the little ones can briefly lift their heads when lying on the floor. If they lie on their stomach, they perform dwarf lying support by raising their head and shoulders.

If you pull the little ones up by their hands and bring them into a sitting position, you will notice that the neck muscles already hold the head well.

Now begins the time when you have to take good care on the changing table. Because the little ones start to turn from their back to their stomach.

Even if the little ones at this age still smile at everyone, there is now a firm relationship with mum and dad. The third month is also the time when the babies discover themselves. They are particularly fascinated by their little hands and the ten little fingers that move them, stick them in their mouths and reach for objects.

In the following time the development slows down, which has progressed with a rapid speed so far.

After six months your baby has grown about 15 centimetres and has approximately doubled his body weight.

The brain triples its weight by the first birthday because many connections between the neurons have formed.