All parents want to help their baby make the most of every moment. And the fact is that from the minute he is born, your baby is already soaking up experiences through all his senses.Here's how to help him get the most benefit from those early days

other expert organisation such as the NCT, the Royal College of Midwives and Sense About Science has been that the advice is unproven and is unnecessarily alarmist.The BBC points out that the RCOG report goes on to say that "it is unlikely that any

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There's a lot going on inside your baby's head. As soon as he's out of the womb, he is trying to make sense of all the new stimuli bombarding him. Judith Woodhead, child psychologist at the Anna Freud Centre in London, says, ‘Tiny babies put all