Your smiles are amazing - you first smiled when you were 26 days old and you've been smiling ever since! Now you smile and giggle with your whole body. What a joy you are ...'
These words open our new book, Working with Babies and Children: From Birth to Three (Sage). Written by a mother to her baby in her 'Baby Diary', this extract tells us how important closeness, love and positive early relationships are for babies. We know so much more now about the needs of babies, and practitioners who work with babies know how amazing they are in the ways even the youngest ones seek, from the moment they are born, to make sense of their worlds.
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