CONTENTS :
- Awakening the senses in newborns
- The sensoriality of an ergonomic bottle in soft silicone
- The baby feeding experience
An adult's perception is the result of a delicate alchemy of the senses. This is even truer for babies, who discover and learn everything through their five senses. Touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing: for them, sensoriality is essential. Awakening the senses enables your baby to become aware of the world around him right from the start. That's why his world should be made up exclusively of reassuring, familiar objects, designed to create and sublimate a succession of sensory experiences.
Awakening the senses in newborns
Birth represents one of life's greatest sensory upheavals. From its mother's womb, where it floats in amniotic fluid, the newborn moves into a world of open air, where its entire body is subject to the earth's attraction. Submerged at first, he gradually learns to recognize sounds, smells, people and the first objects around him.
Hearing is his most highly developed sense. That's why, thanks to a powerful auditory memory, baby is quickly able to identify his mother's voice.
During pregnancy, it has already developed certain food tastes thanks to the food shared by its mother via the umbilical cord. Taste is accompanied by the sense of smell, developed in utero as early as 7ᵉ months of pregnancy. For a child, the most familiar and reassuring smell is that of its mother.
Finally, if baby needs to reach the age of two months to enjoy a sight sufficiently developed to recognize his parents' faces, on the other hand, touch and touch is very fine, right from the start. Thanks to his hands, mouth and the whole of his epidermis, the infant participates more and more consciously in the physical and emotional construction of his own world.
How do babies develop their sense of touch?
Touch is an early sense. Some receptors are functional as early as 4ᵉ weeks of pregnancy, followed by the fetus' first reflexes at around 12 weeks.
When he's born, baby is not yet capable of controlled gestures, yet he already reacts very strongly to touch. If you place your finger in his hand, he reflexively squeezes it. A little later, as he becomes more agile, his hands and fingers enable him toexplore shapes and materials, to encounter hot and cold, to appreciate the roughness or, on the contrary, the softness of objects.
One of the first things we encounter is the feeding bottle. A pillar of the first circle, the bottle nourishes body and mind, in a ritualistic and comforting milky bubble.
The sensoriality of an ergonomic bottle in soft silicone
Élhée's story begins with a disillusionment - that of a mother who can't find the right bottle for her children - and continues with a revolution, that of a businesswoman who decides to create BibRond.
In addition to being 100% healthy for babies, this new bottle and physiological teat are made from soft, supple, unbreakable silicone, no less. The medical-grade silicone of its bottle invites babies and their parents to a true sensory experience every day. The material's suppleness recalls the softness of a mother's breast, while its peach-skin feel resembles that of the epidermis, for deeply emotional, milky meals. for deeply emotional, milky meals.
Each element of the iconic BibRond, now available in 3 sizes (150, 240 and 330 ml) and more than 10 colors, encourages your baby's senses from birth:
- medical silicone under his fingers, encouraging touch,
- breast milk or formula in its bottle, develops taste,
- the proximity of the parent during feeding stimulates the sense of smell,
- the unique design, all curves and tenderness, arouses the eye and curiosity.
The baby feeding experience
The sensory aspect of feeding is very important for your baby. Alongside your cuddles and lullabies, bottle-feeding is a moment of pleasure and intense satisfaction for him.
Snuggled up close to you, he enjoys your warmth, the feel of your skin and the smell of you and the milk he drinks. He tastes his meal and exchanges grateful glances with you. And all the while, his little hands rest on yours, or on the bottle of his bottle.
Taste, touch, sight and smell interact to create a complete and satisfying feeding experience. And since the bottle is one of the very first objects to enter the intimate circle of the parent-baby relationship, it was vital that it should take into account the sensoriality of the moment.
4 sensory activities for baby's milk meals
- Whenever possible, share skin-to-skin time After feeding, but also during feeding, enjoy skin-to-skin contact with your baby. As well as tasting good, his meal will be comforting.
- Test different milk temperatures Whether room temperature, cold or lukewarm, you can offer your baby all three options. The right temperature contributes to a good-tasting milk meal and a pleasant sensory experience.
- The power of voice Experience the soothing effect of your voice on your baby by speaking softly, singing lullabies or telling stories during feeding time. It's a beautiful, gentle way to train your baby's ear and continue the exchanges begun in utero.
- Entouch it with different textures Whether it's a soft silicone bottle for easy gripping, skin-to-skin contact, cotton for your clothes or synthetic fur on the sofa, any experience is good for stimulating the sense of touch.
As an added bonus, because the bottle rolls and bounces, and the hood stacks effortlessly, BibRond can be transformed into a toy after feeding to stimulate babies' creativity and motor skills.
For the first 6 months of a baby's life, milk, whether infant or breast, is sufficient to cover all the requirements for growth. However, your baby's sensory perception differs according to the arms that carry him and the bottle used.
For a unique feeding experience, Élhée has developed a soft medical silicone bottle with a natural feel that's easy to hold, and also features a physiological teat and anti-colic valve. For uninhibited feeding and to ensure that your baby's meals are safe, give him an emotional bottle with a unique design, to support his sensory development from the very first moments of life.
