My bubeleh is incredibly smart, people. (I call her bubeleh which, with such a Russian – looking baby, does sound a bit bizarre.)
I had a lactation specialist visit me, and it turned out I wasn’t feeding bubeleh right. She was curling her tongue and using her gums, and that was making the whole thing more difficult. So the lactation specialist put her finger in bubeleh’s mouth to position her tongue correctly for the feeding. And it worked beautifully.
For the next feeding, the lactation specialist was not here, and I was struggling. So bubeleh grabbed my finger and sucked on it to position her tongue correctly for the feeding.
She’s 3 days old! And already she observed causality, replicated the experiment, and got the result she wanted. I’m 39 years old and a PhD, but I didn’t do any of these things.
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This baby is a genius! 3 days old (‘old’ for goodness sake!), and already so smart! She was born a tiny little genius I tell you!
I think that she looks like her dad. Also, she has her granny Klara’s face when her granny was her age.
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It’s total proof babies start learning from the minute they’re born.
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Since your beautiful little girl is a genius, her mind is quickly going to pick up on the single word that you use the most when you’re holding/feeding her.
Do you call her “Klara” or “Bubelah” when talking to her? She’ll associate the most consistently used term with herself.
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I talk at her A LOT. Non-stop. It will be really interesting to see which words she retains first.
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Breastfeeding was hard for me to get used to. I expected it to be completely 100% natural, but it took us (me and both babies) some time to figure it out. I thought it was very worthwhile, though. I’m glad that your kiddo is gaining that muscle memory. And of course she’s a genius! She’s your kid! 🙂
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