Babyhood Is an Age of Rapid Growth and Change
Babies grow rapidly, both physically and psychologically. With this rapid growth comes a change not only in appearance but also in capacities. Babies gradually become less top-heavy than they were at birth and their limbs develop in better proportion to the large head. Changes in body proportions are ac companied by growth in height and weight. While growth is rapid during the entire babyhood period, it is especially so during the first year of babyhood.
Intellectual growth and change parallel physical growth and change. Perhaps in no area is change more apparent than in the baby's ability to recognize and respond to people and objects in the environment. Before babyhood has come to an end, babies are able to understand many things and can communicate their needs and wants in ways that others can understand.
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