, but extremely distressing. If you sense your baby’s crankiness may be due to overheating, take her outside for a walk either in her pushchair or a sling. A simple change of environment and some fresh air is sometimes all it takes to calm an irritable baby

? Even lovely ones, like crescents or semi-circles, are a toddler tongue-twister. And that star that twinkles in the sky is probably the only time we celebrate a shape in song with our babies. However, it seems that Tom’s celebration of certain shapes

between mother and child rather than how to achieve the perfect headstand.“Babies are natural-born yogis – they teach us how to move.” explains Uma Tinsmore-Duli, a Birthlight-trained yoga teacher with 13 years of baby-yoga teaching under her belt. “We

A HUGE AMOUNT of action and reaction – or cause and effect – goes on in a baby’s first year. As she zooms through the stages of development, her brain doubles in size. At birth, she is little more than a bundle of reflexes; by six months, she can

 1.   He’s watching youFrom the moment your baby is born, you are under surveillance. Your baby will not be able to take his eyes off you; he will follow your every move, ‘tracking’ you as you move around your home. That’s because from the moment