Communication and interaction with the baby

| The newborn does not yet know who he is and who those around him are, his lack of self-awareness makes him believe that he and mother are the same thing.

What the baby does know and recognize perfectly is his mother's voice and smell (During pregnancy you have heard her speak constantly). On the other hand, parents need a period of knowledge of their baby to consolidate the parent-child bond.

Stimuli and interactions

• From the first hours of life it has interest in people, is a sociable being and will prefer contact and with them than with toys or other objects. He likes to look at faces and receive caresses, kisses and hugs. Https://www.salud.mapfre.es/salud-familiar/bebe/crecimiento-y-desarrollo/comunicacion/
• The newborn is prepared to know that its well-being depends on the care of other people: food, cleanliness and affection. It is because of that uses crying to express his needs or discomfort. Babies have used crying, since human origins, as a survival tool. Thanks to the fact that they can cry, adults have given them the care they need to live.

The person with whom You have been in intimate contact with her for 9 months in a perfect environment; adequate temperature, constant feeding, darkness and rocking in an aquatic environment ... But with the birth all this has changed a lot, the environment is no longer always at the same temperature, it is cold, there is a lot of light and the food is fractional. To all these changes the baby has to adapt little by little; This requires time and a dose of patience and understanding on the part of the parents.

Should the baby be allowed to cry?

A newborn baby should not be allowed to cry, their needs must always be attended to. When you tend to the crying baby you are not consenting, but you are responding to their needs, You lend him attention and you fill it with sweetie. Letting a baby cry for a long period of time does not teach him anything, neither to sleep alone, nor to wait any longer for a bottle, nor not to need affection ... is teaching him that there is no one around who cares and that they can't do anything for him. Taking care of him whenever he demands it helps him understand that there is always someone who takes care of him and covers his needs, this generates a lot of baby safety.

For all these reasons, in the first months of life, rules, discipline and "letting cry" have no place. This does not imply that babies do not benefit from routines. Until after two or three months of age we cannot ask the baby to have a marked rhythm of feeding and sleeping. Everything will come!