Within the first few hours after birth, most healthy newborns can instinctively move to their mother’s breast and attach all on their own. This early breastfeeding gives your baby a healthy start.  The skin-to-skin contact keeps her at a perfect body temperature and stimulates her feeding instincts.  Your baby will benefit from an early dose of colostrum, the rich and protective first milk.

Her suckling will help contract your uterus and speed up delivery of the placenta.

Early breastfeeding is also important in helping you bond with your baby.

Many children have habits such as nail biting, thumb sucking, or nose picking. Most often, such habits go away on their own. Sometimes a child needs help to break them. A way to achieve that is calmly reminding a child, with praise when he/she is not doing it.

Your child is learning quickly. His/her vocabulary is constantly expanding, he/she probably uses sentences of 4-5 words, learns songs by heart. Peers' company is important to him/her and he is beginning to play group games (hide-and-seek). He/she likes pretend games, and don't be surprised if he/she has an imaginary friend (imagination can do wonders). He/she is learning to follow the rules and thus developing self-control. He/she is aware of his/her emotions, which he/she expresses intensely, but also quickly changes his/her mood. He/she is more and more agile and can stand on one foot.

During this period, your child intensively acquires new knowledge and skills. Through playing and interacting with other children and adults, he/she enriches communication and builds team spirit, learns about numbers, letters and words. Social development is intense - the child makes new friends and establishes new relationships with the environment. He/she wants to take care of his/her own things and pets independently, practices responsibility and independence, build self-confidence and self-assurance.