The best thing parents can do to encourage the intellectual development of their baby is to provide plenty of appropriate stimulating experiences for them as a very young child. The more children experience, the more brain activity and brain cell connection there is. An early start Research has shown there's an incredible amount of learning and brain cell development that goes on in the first few months and years of life.
Brains actually start developing before birth.
The first early stimulus is a mother's heartbeat. The brain's development then continues through pregnancy and once a baby finally sees the light of the outside world, his or her brain is a fertile field waiting to be planted with seeds of knowledge and stimuli. Experience needed At birth, the brain has over 100 billion brain cells. Connections between these brain cells grow very quickly in the months after birth as they use the sounds, sights, touch, smells and feelings of parents and other caregivers to establish neural pathways for emotions, speech and intellectual capacities. Neuroscience proves that a baby's brain is like a sponge, ready to absorb and process everything around it.