Since birth the baby is preparing to talk. Actually, since birth, it is about communicating with your parents with the means at your disposal: crying and looking. They are your first "words" before words.
At the beginning he cries or shouts when he needs something: food, heat, sleep or, equally important, physical contact. By answering your call and trying to understand what you are asking for, we are encouraging the communication process with the response.
When he looks at us with arrogance, pending our eyes, in love, and we respond to his gaze with equal intensity, letting time pass, we also encourage his exercise of emotional communication.
The baby recognizes the sound of his mother's voice a few days after birth, when he touches the two weeks he can turn his head to look at her and also to follow the sound of his voice. Very soon they are able to call shouting at their mother when they hear her.
AdvertisingThe gestures and the volume and timbre of crying or shouting convey to us what the child tries to communicate, and little by little we parents learn to interpret them. It is a matter of listening and being attentive.
But little by little it will begin to make more complex sounds, babbles and gorgorites; Start imitating our voices even if you don't say anything yet. Since he was born he has been surrounded by words and sounds, it is normal that he wants to participate in the process.
After three months they enjoy the imitative sound games, and that is an exercise that prepares them for when they are prepared to say, intelligibly, their first words.
For all those reasons, those first "words" before words they are the ones that we have the most interest in our son's life. For him they are an enormous effort and a source of pleasure. He calls us and we come, he cries and we cradle him, he asks for milk and we give it to him, he wants to curl up and we give him our warmth. Communication, from their point of view, works. It fills you with joy and security, makes you feel loved and deserving of attention. Communicating with us makes them feel loved and receive what they need. We sow confidence in ourselves and confidence in themselves.
That's why I think you never have to ignore the crying or the call of a baby. They are Your first "words" before the words.
