Baby Milestones: How to Handle Skill Development Anxiety

My New Life

Kate Garlinge

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🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Parenting is a time of so much change for you and your baby, a little reliable information can go a long way towards making this new life, a good life.

Jessica Rolph is your host and she is joined by Rachel Coley in this episode of My New Life, a Lovevery podcast, to discuss the common anxiety parents share about their children reaching milestones and comparing to other children’s progress. Does it help? Does it really matter?

Rachel Coley is a Pediatric Occupational Therapist and the mom behind a super informative website called CanDo Kiddo. Rachel prefers to focus on what she calls “mini-milestones”, which are all the tiny steps a baby takes to reach their objective. Tune in to learn what to do if your baby doesn’t like tummy time, how baby containers are getting in the way of natural development, and why the floor is the best place for your baby to be.

Key Takeaways:

[2:51] Technology is shaping what kind of toys we are putting in front of our babies.

[4:22] Why do babies need to be on the floor?

[6:25] Is swaddling beneficial for a baby?

[7:14] Tummy time is the baby’s first opportunity to interact with gravity.

[11:15] Thinking about tummy time as a position for play is really helpful.

[13:54] Milestone anxiety vs staying curious about mini-milestones.

[15:30] How parents can help babies build the strength necessary to roll over.

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0:00.0	Parenthood is a time of so much change for you and your baby.
0:12.8	A little reliable information can go a long way towards making this new life a good life.
0:18.6	I'm Jessica Rolfe, and this is my new life, a love every podcast.
0:29.1	I remember being on the floor with my baby. He was doing the tummy time thing and started to
0:34.3	wobble, tipped over, and rolled for the first time. The look on his face was
0:39.5	so unforgettable. He looked scared and surprised all at once. He was six months and wasn't really
0:46.5	into rolling over much after that, and it caught me wondering, how does he stack up? I've since
0:52.9	discovered I'm not the only parent out there with milestone anxiety.
0:57.1	It feels as though we can't help but compare our baby's milestones. But does it help? Does it matter?
1:03.0	I was so excited to discover today's guest, Rachel Coley. She's a pediatric occupational therapist
1:09.1	and the mom behind super informative website
1:12.3	can do kiddo.
1:14.5	Rachel prefers to focus on what she calls mini milestones, all the little steps it takes
1:20.1	a baby to get to that photo worthy moment.
1:23.0	Rachel shares with us everything from how we can help babies who don't like tummy time,
1:28.6	how baby containers are getting in the way of natural development and why the floor is the best place for your baby
1:32.6	to be. She also talks about how Googling into the night can be detrimental and why milestones are not
1:39.1	a pass fail for your baby. Without further ado, here's our conversation. So we hear this a lot from parents. Like,
1:45.8	don't babies just develop naturally? Like, why is there this big focus on all the baby gadgets
1:50.7	and just this, all this parenting information? Yeah. I mean, parenting has changed and babyhood
1:56.0	has changed so much over the past, say, 20 years. So as parents, we are marketed to with a lot of devices
2:03.8	and gadgets and apps and things that are really getting in the way of what our babies truly need
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