Further Reading

Your baby is born into a complex social world and needs to learn quickly how to engage with it, how to respond to the actions of others, how to direct people towards fulfilling their needs, and how to build relationships.^[1] That's a whole lot of learning! Thankfully, your inventive baby will find many ways to engage with you and other people around them.

Your baby has explored ways of using movement to attract your attention and has learnt that you will respond to them. Now, they are beginning to explore a wider range of ways to initiate interactions, testing your responses, and comparing these to the responses of others.