Bonding With Your Baby: 3 Simple Tips

While there are strong natural forces at work which will ensure a lot of the bonding between you and your baby happens intuitively, there are certain methods you can use to accelerate the process and further strengthen that precious bond between you. Some can be learned in parenting courses and others by trial and error. The bond a child shares with his or her parents lasts a lifetime, and it can be daunting as well as incredibly humbling to share such a powerful connection with another human being. Here are three simple bonding tips to get you started…

The Importance of Eye Contact

There’s something other-worldly about the state of a parent and child gazing into each other’s eyes. Both parties seem almost in a dreamlike state and to observe it is to realise there is an intense intimacy that excludes everyone but the two of them. It’s a beautiful thing to witness and to be part of, but it also serves an almost primal purpose in binding mother and child. Before your child understands language or even sound, he or she understands all the love you’re imparting when you look into their eyes. There are some sleep-training regimens that dictate avoiding eye-contact when you are trying to settle your baby into a sleep pattern, but if at any time this disrupts your child’s ability to make eye contact you should disregard that particular element–it is more important that you’re able to freely connect and say all that you want to with a look.
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