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Develop Maternal Attachment by Talking to Your Baby

Last Updated: September 26, 2008

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Parenting Tips for Your 1 Month Old Baby

When you talk to your baby, you are building a positive relationship between both of you. This is will help your baby learn to trust you, and helps your baby's brain develop the way it should.

  • Imitate the sounds your baby makes.
  • Use complete sentences. “It’s time for your bath.“ “Now, I’m going to wash your face; scrub-a-dub-dub.” “Won’t it feel good to be clean?”
  • Your child will talk back to you by smiling, crying, making soft sounds, and making arm and leg movements.
  • Most of your child’s vocabulary will consist of “oo” sounds.
  • Try to figure out what your baby is trying to tell you and respond to it.
  • Get down on your baby’s level and look into his eyes when you are “talking” to each other.


Learn more about Your 1 Month Old Baby from Just In Time Parenting. You can also go to our Resource Links for additional information on child care and development.


Note to Parents: When reading this newsletter, remember: Every baby is different. Children may do things earlier or later than described here. This newsletter gives equal space and time to both sexes. If he or she is used, we are talking about all babies.
References: These materials were adapted by authors from Extension Just in Time Parenting Newsletters in California, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Tennessee, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Wisconsin.

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