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The Many Benefits of Early-Age Reading

If you haven’t started reading to your little one yet, don’t fret, its never too late to start. Reading with babies and children is a constant learning journey with every word read to them beneficial to their cognitive development. As bub listens to your words, she will creating sound patterns in her mind, working on recollection and memory to understand the words and their meaning, even though she can’t say them just yet.

Board books are the perfect style of book for you to read with your little one, as the books are designed with little hands in mind. As bub grows you will find he can start holding the books himself whilst you read.

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When Should My Baby Start Swimming Lessons?

With water being similar to womb conditions, babies tend to be naturally relaxed when it comes to the water and love to splash around in the bath or the pool. Mizzie knows how important water safety is for babies and wanted to share some information about swimming lessons with your baby so that they can get the best start now and develop a healthy relationship with the water and begin learning in a safe controlled environment.

Screen Time For Babies

Whilst there are loads of educational programming on television, learning apps for your tablet and phone and a wealth of ‘interactive’ online games for babies and little ones, it turns out that learning through a device is not the best way to go. When we give babies our devices to entertain themselves with, we are actually impacting their cognitive development and creating some pretty bad habits around our little ones self-entertainment and exploration.

Postpartum Depression: What Are The Signs?

After baby has arrived, sometimes as new mothers we find ourselves feeling overwhelmed and anxious as our world changes so dramatically. Postpartum Depression is a factor that effects most mums to some extent and at Mizzie, we think its so important to take care of Mum as much as you take care of bub. Check out these PPD signs to help you!

Reading To Your Baby

Reading with babies and children at any age is always going to be beneficial to their cognitive development. Reading aloud to your little one can assist them in developing language and speech skills as every sound they hear you make goes into the memory bank allowing bubs to create patterns of recognition and understanding even at this young age.