For parents, forming a bond or attachment and communicating with a new born is very important for infant’s healthy growth and development. It doesn’t take much effort, just responding to them with lots of smiles, love, warmth and cuddles. Here are some of the effective ways in which parents can bond with their new-born, how they can communicate with them and how baby forms attachments.  

Bonding with the baby: benefits and major techniques

Forming a bond with the new-born is considered very crucial as it plays a significant role in releasing of hormones and chemicals in new-born’s brain which boosts rapid brain growth and development, enabling them learn new things around them. Bonding also gives a new born baby, a sense of security and comfort from the parents, which further leads to social, emotional and cognitive development from an early age and also casts a positive lifelong effect on their mental health.

A new born infant usually shows certain behaviour or uses certain body languages to signal that they want attention or they want to bond such as- smiling, cooing, laughing or making little noises while making eye contact, holding out their arms or more looking relaxed and interested. In that case, the parents can use certain tips and techniques like 

       1.Learning to understand the baby’s signals and copy them back in response to show the understanding,

2. Regularly touching, cuddling and providing skin-to-skin contact to the baby during the breastfeeding, bath and massage. 
3. Talking and singing to the new-born in a gentle, soothing and reassuring tone. It will make the baby calm, and helps them to recognise their parent’s voices and can also help in in understanding the language.
4. Responding and proving comfort to the baby when they cry as it will help them to feel safe and secure.

Baby communication: Significance and guidance

A new born uses a vey unique way of communicate with its parents, that is using body languages and facial expressions and most importantly by crying. It is very crucial for the parents to understand these little signals and cues and responding warmly to their needs as it lets them form an understanding that their parents are listening.

Parents should always utilise every little opportunity to talk with their baby as it will help them to recognise their voice and will increase the understanding of new words. 

Some of the ways in which parents can communicate with their infant are- Speaking the words, slowly, softly and in an exciting manner. Saying the things, which will make the baby laugh and by using songs and facial expressions.