What are the strengths of a baby?

Answer 1

The external strength provided to an infant/baby include:

• Milk
• Water
• Nutrients

Healthy babies/infants do have innate strengths or ones that develop quickly in the first few months, including:

• strong lungs
• the power to communicate through crying
• the ability to suck or suckle
• the ability to recognize his/her mother's face
• the ability to recognize other familiar faces
• the ability to kick and move their arms

Some "strengths" develop around certain ages as muscle strength improves, such as:

• the ability to control his/her head and neck muscles
• the ability to roll over
• the ability to scoot
• the ability to crawl
• the ability to hold him/herself upright
• the ability stand
• the ability to walk, assisted
• the ability to walk, unassisted
• the ability to feed him/herself