What is Wonder week? Wonder week is a time when children focus on developing motor skills and brain, so will neglect eating and sleeping. This is a week of crises for children and a week for mothers. Mother should listen to the child's expressions and learn to handle appropriately.
How long does the Wonder week last? With any normal baby, within the first 20 months of life will go through 10 weeks of crisis, also known as a wonder week.
When encountering such sudden changes in baby weeks, many mothers become anxious, lose their appetite, use enough measures to force their children to eat enough, make them sleep to full sleep and become a little irritable with any. Who. Some other mothers are comforted by everyone or themselves that "ah this is the stage of physiological anorexia " of their baby. To give mothers more specific information about the baby's crisis week, you should refer to our article.
Baby's Wonder Week: Crisis week for babies is also a crazy week for moms
The Wonder Week concept was born to reduce and avoid stress for both mother and baby when the baby falls into a character changing week due to natural developmental processes. Wonder week is a time when children focus on developing motor skills and brain, so will neglect eating and sleeping. In this wonder week, you will have to deal with 3C - Crying, Clinginess, Crankiness (Crying, Clinging, Angry).
Your baby's changes in cognitive, intellectual and functional development will have a direct impact on the baby, making him uncomfortable because he has not adapted to his new feelings and abilities. . Not all of a sudden, the child knows how to act, crawl, or know where to go.
All are a process, the process of "learning and training", children think, feel themselves, pay attention to understand and recognize everything around them and changes from the inside cannot show out. . Because of that, she thought suddenly she was like that, but in reality, it was not.
What is your baby's expression during wonder week?
What are the symptoms of a baby's crisis week?
Expression when the baby is in the wonder week week can be easily recognized through states such as:
Cry more, or get angry and alas.
Flustered mood: being naturally happy or otherwise.
Want mom / dad to spend a lot of time with the baby. Cling to parents not to leave.
Treat your parents sweetly (eg cuddling your mom or smiling at your dad).
More naughty.
Have unusual tantrums (eg, playing a very good puzzle, suddenly throwing all the toys away and screaming).
Jealous when mom / dad cares about others (especially other babies) besides the baby.
More timid with strangers. (but not before).
Difficulty sleeping, sleeping less, sleep not as deep as usual, getting up and crying. Sleep later, wake up earlier
It seems that "dreams" or "dreams" appear more often than before.
Anorexia in the child's wonder week
Becoming "moody" sometimes just sitting in one seat, thinking wandering.
Suck your hands a lot.
Hug something or look for something to hug when you go to sleep, when you don't have your parents around.
Childhood habits no longer naturally come back (for example, crawling back if she can walk or asking her to hold a bottle to feed herself even though she can handle it herself).
With babies who are breastfed, they sometimes ask for money (but actually not because of hunger) constantly, even if it's only a little bit and especially when it's angry, it takes all.
Post-wonder week: Great achievements for your kids
The following changes may not 100% match with children because each baby is a separate individual, the baby will develop based on the environment and development, but will also be useful information for mothers :
Wonder week of newborn baby at 5 weeks old
Children begin to have changes in their senses. So what is a wonder week? When the baby's metabolism develops, and especially develops strongly within the 5th week, right after full month the baby will begin to "have trouble".
This is the reason that our mothers in the past often raised their children to each other precious experiences that "What kind of thing outside the month is the baby will start to fuss more than usual". However, after passing this first stage of crisis week, the baby will begin to look at things more attentively, have the feeling of wanting to touch everything, begin to laugh and be more sensitive to the scent.
This is followed by Wonder Week when the child is 8 weeks old
What is Wonder week?
After this second stage of anorexia , or fussy baby, your baby will be able to keep her head more stable, turn her head toward sound, begin to show signs of interest in toys, explore and observe parts of his body, began to make small growling sounds. So cute!
Wonder week of babies at 12 weeks of age
This is the milestone that marks the child's first major transformation. You will begin to know splendid , invert, flip, poking their heads, laugh more and love to hear the sound with different frequencies.
Before that, of course, I will also struggle with the days when you stop eating or stay up at night without sleep. But witnessing your child know how to make it clear is a memory that every mother wants to keep, even forget all the fatigue that went through the child's crisis week.
The wonder week is at the 19th week
Mom will start to see that your baby will know how to put his hand in his mouth to suck or hold to put all objects within reach in his or her mouth, follow the mother or father, push the nipple out when full.
Wonder week when the child is 26 weeks old
After the end of this 'uncomfortable' period, children will begin to grasp, sit up, move, determine development distance skills, start to scream and laugh very loudly.
Wonder week at 37 weeks
This week is key for infants to be able to realize that different things can be grouped or categorized together.
After they stop crying and eating, they will show signs of being able to understand certain words, imitate others, show their moods, want to play games and swing along with promotional music, and will begin to crawl.
Kid's Wonder week at 46 weeks
Children are now beginning to understand sequences. I will start to speak with simple words, can answer short questions, point to objects I want, and like to play stacking objects.
Wonder week when the child reaches 55 weeks of age
New skills for children after the 8th stage of irritability include the ability to walk or be able to walk steadily , like to hold objects far away, like to draw, wear or undress.
9th Wonder week: 64th week old
Mother's newborn baby is now grown up. Children begin to know how to make jokes, to cherish, to flatter their mothers, to imitate adult expressions and actions.
Last wonder week: when the baby reaches 75 weeks of age
At nearly 20 months old, the baby can completely walk and run. Knowing how to chain events into a system and can change behavior to suit the situation.
Children will also begin to develop empathy and less selfishness, along with developing better language skills.
What is the way to pass the Wonder Week with your child?
Let your child sleep at night 30-45 minutes earlier than usual. Cut off a day's naps (applied to weeks 12 - 26 or 37 - 55 or 64), before cutting the day for the mother to check for signs of napping.
DO NOT PRESS EAT, do not turn physiological anorexia into psychological anorexia. I just need to wait until you TET me, then let me eat.
Take care of your child more, and play games together to practice the skills they are learning.
When your baby is fussy , help him forget the annoyance by having him perform the activity he likes best, massage him, let him go out to play, play in the water.
Wonder week Crisis week isn't the baby sick. It's just a difficult time for your baby so help your baby develop his skills and maintain his routine, just observe and listen to and pay attention to your baby and just "follow the nature". Crisis week of the baby will be again "precious" week of mothers when they see their children change through each stage.
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