Striding ahead
Jennie Lindon
Wednesday, November 7, 2001
Bodily development in babies and toddlers is crucial to their mental growth, says Jennie Lindon The developmental state of newborn human babies is the result of a compromise. At full term, or close to 37/38 weeks, our babies are able to survive an independent life outside the womb. Their brains have already started to develop and are poised for an impressive rate of change over the next couple of years. However, if their brains were more developed, their heads would be larger and, as some books delicately say, 'normal birth would not be possible'.
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