Track your baby's development.

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A baby's brain is a work in progress, trillions of neurons waiting to be wired into a mind. YOU HOLD YOUR NEWBORN SO HIS SKY- blue eyes are just inches from the brightly patterned wallpaper. ZZZt: a neuron from his retina makes an electrical connection with one in his brain's visual cortex. You gently touch his palm with a clothespin; he grasps it, drops it, and you return it to him with soft words and a smile.

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together to help your baby's brain grow and develop over the course of the first year of their life. A newborn’s brain contains over 100 billion neurons, or brain cells. Each neuron forms small branches called dendrites. Dendrites allow neurons to communicate across synapses, or connections between neurons. About 80 percent of dendrites form after birth, and a large percentage of them form during the first three years of life.

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