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The Amazing Babies Academy provides online programs, and a selection of online courses, learning videos, books and theme packages. Our programs, courses and products are designed to provide baby movement research for early childhood educators, infant professionals, movement educators, parents and caregivers, through a comprehensive understanding and experience of the developmental movement patterns. The developmental movement patterns provide the essential foundation for babies to become dynamic explorers, expressive communicators, and self-motivated learners.
A bit of science to start with! We are born with billions of neurons pre-formed ready to go. But the connections between neurons and different parts of the brain are not established and the connecting up process happens during those early years and is at the fastest rate it ever will be. When we are born, our brains are bombarded with sensations and feelings but we have no idea what they are or where they come from. During the first few years of a baby’s life their brain develops so they can identify feelings such as love, or rage, fear or happiness.
Babies arrive exquisitely attuned to attach to a caregiver. If they weren’t able to evoke caregiving responses in adults, due to their complete dependency they would be at risk of not surviving. Attachment behaviour is genetically determined, so babies are powerfully appealing, in their vulnerability, to their biological parents.