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Baby’s First Year: What Every New Parent Needs to Know: 63 total pages.

· When you are holding your baby while trying to assist her in walking don't hold her legs or hands. You can hold her by the torso. · Try to encourage your baby to develop walking motor skills by calling her to come to you or by placing a favorite toy just out of reach so that she crawls towards it. This will help her engage in these actions on her own volition and will expedite the development of several necessary skills for independence. · Make sure the floor is not too slippery; your baby may not find it easy to balance on a slippery floor and this can be dangerous for a baby just learning to balance. Motor skills are not exactly the same thing as hand and eye coordination but they are pretty closely related. The development of hand-eye coordination often parallels and/or compliments the development of gross and fine motor skills. There are some activities your baby can do to increase her coordination and develop her motor skills, such as: · Puzzles: Get your baby started on jigsaw puzzles. Let her start off on small

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