It’s well-known that the newborn babies cannot see the objects clearly and can’t distinguish the colours until up to three months old. The best distance for the baby to study smth is around 20 cm, which corresponds to the distance from the breast to mom’s face meaning that the ideal time for studying mom’s face is breast-feeding.
What babies are fascinated by (of course, after parent’s facial expressions) are the contrasts of the dark and light and specifically, black and white. Other colours, which are the first for the newborn to recognize are red and orange.
Based on this knowledge, together with Maria we prepared a training for Andrew – coloured in black some paintings as well as made a rattle (made out of Pringles chips box, which we filled up with macaroni and taped the top of the box with black’n’white Mary’s drawing). Andrew’s reaction exceeded all expectations! =) he was amazed by these contrast papers and could stare at them for quite a long time. It was an excellent help to keep Andrew happy on his belly (which is usually the most disliked activity of the newborns).
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