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Author Meade, Vickie.

Title Helping babies help themselves : from in your arms to standing alone / Vickie Meade, PT, DSc, MPH, PCS, Janette Heath Osborne, DipPhys, APA ; drawings by Christina Frank
Published Camberwell, Vic. : ACER Press, 2012
Camberwell, Victoria, Australia : ACER Press, 2012

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Description 62 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
regular print
Contents Contents note continued: Integrating communication skills into your play -- Each baby achieves motor skills on their own pathway
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Your newborn baby -- How movement begins -- How Mum and Dad can help -- Some questions you might ask about the first three months -- Quick Tips -- Key Points -- The premature baby -- ch. 2 Your baby from four to six months -- Enjoy the movements your baby is trying to master -- How Mum and Dad can help -- Some questions you might ask about the four- to six-month period -- Quick Tip -- Key Points -- ch. 3 Your baby from six to eight months -- Enjoy the movements your baby has mastered -- How Mum and Dad can help -- Some questions you might ask about the six- to eight-month period -- Quick Tip -- Key Points -- ch. 4 Your baby from eight to twelve months -- Look at me! I have mastered using my big muscles -- How Mum and Dad can help -- Some questions you might ask about the eight- to twelve-month period -- Quick Tip -- Key Points -- ch. 5 Every baby is different -- What you and your baby have achieved --
Summary Written by two highly experienced pediatric physiotherapists, Helping Babies Help Themselves is necessary reading for all first-time parents. It explains in straightforward terms how babies express their feelings and demonstrate their physical needs at different developmental stages, through their facial expressions, noises and the way they move
Analysis Australian
Notes "An illustrated guide"--Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Child development -- Popular works.
Child development.
Child rearing -- Popular works.
Child rearing.
Infants -- Care -- Popular works.
Infants -- Development.
Motor ability in infants -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Motor ability in infants.
Parenting -- Popular works.
Parenting.
Author Frank, Christina (Artist)
Heath Osborne, Janette.
LC no. 2012538050
ISBN 1742860990 (paperback)
9781742860992 (paperback)