4 Stages of must-have baby essentials for baby’s brain development

As a mom, it is so important to me to make sure my little baby’s brain is getting everything it needs to develop properly. I want my child to be healthy, smart, and even ahead of the game when it’s time to start schooling! If you’re a mom, I’m sure you feel the same way. So, I’ve made this list of 4 stages of must-have baby essentials for baby’s brain development that will give them a head start in life!

Content:

| Best essentials for newborn baby

| Best essentials for 3 months up

| Best essentials for 1 year old up

| Best essentials for 2 years old to 99 years old

Best essentials for newborn baby

Queebi pacibuddy

If you have a pacifier loving baby you've probably been through the painful experience of frantically searching for your baby's pacifier while your little love screams out in desperation for their lost soother. Search no more, there's a better way with Queebi. Queebi’s huggable designs are sized for little hands and textured for touch and exploration.

Read more: Queebi the next world’s most famous pacifier holder

Why Queebi?

Queebi is a vibrant brand of baby products

Founded by Wendy, a young mother who deeply understands the importance of providing safe and comfortable products for babies. She has devoted herself to creating a series of high-quality products that bring endless happiness to both babies and parents.

Simple, lightweight objects like Queebi work well for babies discovering cause and effect. Bonus points if the toys have tags or flaps that make them easy to hold.

Queebi has wide range of products

Not only bedtime products, Queebi also providing mealtime range and playtime range products.

Best essentials for 3 months up

Baby’s mealtimes can be a stressful part of the day, but it can also be lots of fun and a chance to share some learning with your baby. It’s important your baby has time to experiment with their food, to squish and squeeze, as well as taste everything they want to.

Grabease silicone spoon and Grabease utensils set

Children explore through touching. Mashing food supports their sensory development. Let them play with their food. You can engage with them by asking if the food feels good, is it also yummy?

And we know scooping is hard. Start with working on hand mouth connection by preloading the Grabease spoon with food for your lil one.

Read more: History of Grabease - What make Grabease so special?

Why Grabease?

Grabease is a utensils also a teether

Grabease have designed the step one - silicone spoon to be safe and soothing to chew for our children’s developing teeth and sore gums. While there's plenty of things we don't want to chew on in their early teething stages, this spoon is one of them!

Read more: Self-feeding utensils, Grabease or Bumkins silicone chewtensils?

Grabease for a proper pencil grasp development

Step two utensils, the first patented ergonomic safe self feeding utensils recommended by occupational therapists. The ergonomic handle fits comfortably in babies' natural hand grasp, making the hand-to-mouth motion easier! Using this set will also help strengthen their fingers while encouraging proper pencil grasp development.

Best essentials for 1 year old up

MOLUK Plüi and Boi

It’s not just bath time—it’s math and science time! Babies love to pour water while your little one is happily playing in the tub, she’s also learning cause and effect, how gravity works and observing the volume of water, and these are early science skills.

MOLUK Plüi Rain Cloud and Rain Ball

Both Plüi Rain Cloud and Rain Ball beautifully illustrates the cycle of water and magically turns kids into little rainmakers. The smart bath toy works like a pipette and makes simple physics tangible and fun. The Pluï Cloud is sure to inspire wonderful stories. It delights and surprises and quickly becomes an indispensable accessory during bath time. The lower half of Plüi Rain Ball is made from elastic silicone rubber is wonderful to touch and offers exciting new play possibilities. Push the feet in Plüi Rain Ball to create a big water fountain. Pluï encourages children to experiment and explore while stimulating their imagination and senses.

Read more: Recommended toys to develop child's skills for the future!

Plüi Rain Cloud

The lower half of Plüi Rain Ball is made from elastic silicone rubber

Plüi Rain Ball

MOLUK Boi

Boi floats and dances in and out of the bathtub. Is it a penguin, a duck or some other bird? We let the children decide. No matter how you spin or roll it, Boi always gets back upright again and continues to bravely explore the world.

Best essentials for 2 years old to 99 years old

The multi-award winning Bilibo is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and versatile open-ended toys. Deceptively simple and magically attractive, Bilibo's iconic shell shape and bright colors immediately appeal to children. Bilibo arouses curiosity, engages the imagination and playfully trains basic motor skills and balance. Both boys and girls find unlimited ways to play with Bilibo – using it to rock and spin in, hide under, sit on, tote with and peek through. Bilibo provides hours of fun, indoors and outdoors - all year round.

Why Bilibo?

Bilibo engage your child's curiosity, imagination and physical abilities

Kids think it's a turtle shell, a rock, a stepping stone, a rocking bowl and so much more, and parents think it's an awesome way to develop their kids' strengths. Crawl under, climb on top, walk across, rock inside or spin endlessly inside this magical plastic shell. Use at home, at the park, at the beach, in the water, and even in the snow, Bilibo provides hours of stimulating play.

Here are more about benefits of playing with Bilio

• Great for individual play or group activities

• Ideal for kids with sensory processing disorder and autism

• Helps with motor planning and balance training

• A good source of vestibular input

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“The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.”

— Maria Montessori

You must know this 2 consider sustainable baby products brand that BabyLux carries

Sustainable packaging is a relatively new addition to the environmental considerations for packaging. But now many brands have offered it. You must know this 2 sustainable baby brand that we carry.

What packaging is considered sustainable?

Sustainable packaging refers to the sourcing, development, and use of packaging solutions that have minimal environmental impact and footprint. Simply put, sustainable packaging is earth-friendly and doesn't contribute to the further depletion of natural resources.

Choosing products in sustainable packaging is one way to avoid harmful chemicals and cut back on the amount of plastic that ends up in landfills. The materials below are great options when choosing sustainable packaging! 

• Aluminum is able to be completely recycled without any loss in quality at a fraction of the initial production costs and energy requirements of plastic.

• Bamboo is the fastest growing plant in the world, making it the number one renewable resource Bamboo actually grows faster when it is cut down!

• Compostable/biodegradable paperboard is made from recycled paper pulp. When manufactured and disposed of properly, it is largely considered a renewable resource.

• Glass and metal are 100% recyclable. This means that they can be infinitely recycled into new packaging without loss of quality. It is also very easy to repurpose a glass or metal container!

• Recycled plastic is another option. Many companies repurpose plastic into new packaging. While this is not ideal (in terms of a renewable resource), it is better than other alternatives.

• Silicone is an eco-friendly material derived from sand. The process to manufacture silicone is much less wasteful than the process to manufacture plastic. It can be recycled -in the right facilities- and is a safe non-toxic alternative to plastic.

Getting familiar with BabyLux carried brands that consider sustainable

Loulou Lollipop

A brands to consider investing in, they product mainly are made from silicone. Why silicone? Silicone rubber does not react with food or beverages, or produce any hazardous fumes. 

Silicone is a polymer mostly made from silica (sand) oxygen. It can withstand heating and freezing without leaching or off-gassing hazardous chemicals – unlike plastics utensils, which contaminate food in these environments.

Food grade silicone is durable, soft like rubber, unbreakable, and often referred to as ‘soft glass’ due to its resilience, non-porous surface, and sustainability. It is resistant to odor and stains, hypoallergenic, and because of its smooth surface, very easy to clean. For these many reasons, food-grade silicone is the perfect material for eco-friendly and non-toxic baby products.

While for soft goods they using TENCEL™ Lyocell and Modal fibers that are produced from wood pulp from sustainably managed sources, a renewable resource. Tencel has a much lower CO2 footprint than many other fabrics.

Read more: 5 Must have Loulou LOLLIPOP items

Dena

Dëna toys are made of platinum-based silicone, a soft, resistant material, BPA free and 100% safe. This material is also used to make dummies, baby bottles and teethers of the highest quality. Silica is the raw material used for manufacturing silicone and is very abundant in beach sand and other similar rocks. Silica is also, for example, the main component of glass.

Platinum-based silicone uses a noble metal, platinum, as a catalyst, which gives it a higher quality. This makes it the ideal material in the manufacture of moulds and products suitable for contact with food.

Likewise, they repel water and germs, so, in addition to facilitating their cleaning, Dëna toys guarantee maximum hygiene and food safety.

Read more: What can you play with Dena toys? You'll never think about it!

10 Milestones in first year of baby’s life

Many important developmental stages have been achieved by babies in first year of their life. Babies throughout the world have the same stages of development, but they may experience it at a different time. So, what kind of abilities that will they develop from the age of 0-12 months?

10 Milestones in first year of baby’s life

1. Smile

After two months of staying up and crying, at around 2 months baby finally able to smile at you. When hearing familiar voice of their Mommy and Daddy or when you tell them your jokes, they will response you by smiling.

2. Laugh

If you are getting bored with the baby's cry, be patient a little because at the age of 4 months, the little one will make another sound, they start to laugh! When you play "peek-a-boo", tickling or putting on a funny face, then come great laughter.

3. Sleep well throughout the night

Their ability to sleep well throughout the night may be a baby milestone that many new parents await. Normally, babies can sleep calm overnight at 4-6 months of age. Please be patient, parents!

Read more: Does baby really need pacifier?

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4. Sit alone

At the end of the fifth month, usually baby is able to sit with help, either by leaning on a pillow or holding it with his own hands. The little one is usually only able to rise from sleep and sit alone at the age of 7 months.

5. Crawling

Stepping on the age of 7 months is your busy period as a parent because you have to keep an eye on your little one who has started to actively move. At the age of 8 months the baby has developed his ability to crawl with his feet and hands, although there are also babies who crawl using the stomach or not crawling at all.

Read more: What is the difference between baby creeping and crawling?

6. Waving

His ability to wave his hands is very important in his growth development milestones, because this is the actual expression of language. At the age of 9 months babies usually begin to find a connection between sound, gestures and meaning. They understand that when somebody waving their hand is related to the word "bye-bye".

7. Eat with fingers

At the age of 9-12 months, babies have developed good control of their hands and fingers so they will begin to pick up various small objects. At this age they also like to explore taste and texture, so that everything they hold will also be tried by their tongue. Because of that, watch everything that goes into his mouth.

Read more: 3 Rules you must follow when giving first food to your children

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8. Stand up

At the age of 12 months most babies can stand alone without help. They also began to dare to step even while holding onto the wall or furniture. A few weeks or months before they are able to walk alone, the baby will spend a lot of time "creeping".

9. Walk

This is a milestone that most parents take memories by recording it, usually you can predict when baby will walk by paying attention to their ability to “creeping”. But not all babies can walk before their first birthday, the normal range is between 9-17 months.

10. Talk

"Mommy", "Daddy", are a sentence that their might say first clearly. At the age of a year, babies are generally being able to say at least one word clearly and actively mimic various sounds.

Read more: Erik Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development

“A child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.”

— Pablo Casals