Baby Development

Parents & Caregivers

The first year of your baby’s life is filled with wonder, growth, questions, exhaustion, connection, and constant change.

This gentle, practical online course is designed to help parents understand what is happening beneath the surface of their baby’s development — emotionally, neurologically, physically, and sensory-wise — so you can parent with greater confidence, calm, and connection.

Created by occupational therapist and mother Emma Wijnberg, Making Sense of Babies guides you through the remarkable journey of development during the first year of life, helping you better understand your baby’s cues, needs, behaviours, regulation, attachment, and milestones.

This is not a course about “perfect parenting.”

It is about helping you feel more informed, supported, and connected during one of the most important and vulnerable stages of your child’s development.

Inside the Course

You’ll explore topics including:

  • Your baby on Day 1

  • The fourth trimester

  • Brain development in the first year

  • Sensory processing and regulation

  • Sleep and nervous system development

  • Attachment and emotional connection

  • Temperament and understanding your baby’s unique personality

  • Developmental milestones and movement

  • Supporting healthy emotional and sensory development

The course combines neuroscience, occupational therapy insight, developmental understanding, and compassionate real-world parenting guidance in a way that feels accessible, reassuring, and deeply practical.

Perfect For

  • New and expecting parents

  • Caregivers and grandparents

  • Nannies and au pairs

  • Early childhood professionals

  • Parents wanting to better understand infant development

What You’ll Gain

  • Greater confidence in understanding your baby

  • Practical tools to support development naturally

  • A deeper understanding of attachment and regulation

  • Clarity around milestones and behaviours

  • Strategies to support calmer, more connected parenting

  • Reassurance during the overwhelming early months

At Little Lives, we believe babies thrive when parents feel supported too.

Because understanding your baby changes everything.

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