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Development of your baby's sight
Discover the sense of sight
What does my baby see?
Rapid progress in the first year after birth
A means of development
"Educational" fascination of face
How to develop your baby's sight ?
Sight and Mustela products
How to develop your baby's sight ?
• During the first weeks, avoid overly bright lights, flashes, etc. because your baby’s retina is still immature.
• Look at them and talk to them…your face is an inexhaustible source of wonder.
From the age of 4 months, they will find “visual games” enormous fun (game of “peekaboo”, for example).
• During the first months, your baby learns to control and coordinate their eyes.
To encourage their visual development while keeping them amused, gently approach their face and move within their field of vision. This will help them to practise fixing their eyes on close “objects” and following them with their eyes…
Later, to stimulate their distant vision, talk to them when you are moving around a room…they will follow you with their eyes and learn to keep their gaze fixed on distant objects.
• Provide your baby with a rich visual environment with contrasting colours (black, white and red), a variety of patterns and moving objects (a mobile hung above their crib, for example).
Around the age of 3 months, give them toys in bright colours or coloured books so that they can discover colours, shapes, objects, etc.
Around the age of 5 months, your baby will be fascinated by mirrors: attach an unbreakable plastic mirror to their bed.
During the day, apart from during naptime, place them in a lively spot where they will love watching what is going on around them.
• Don’t forget to bring the other senses into play as well: if the object makes a sound or can be touched, your baby will be all the more interested…and at the same time learn to work their hands, ears and eyes all together – an essential step in their psychomotor development.