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The embryo develops fingers, toes, eyes, ears, a nose, a mouth, a heart, and a circulatory system.
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The baby was born.
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The baby has a basic need for contact comfort, which is the need to be touched by skin.
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The baby starts rooting, which means that they turn to stimuli that touches their cheek or corner of ther mouths.
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At first, infants prefer being held or just being with someone.
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Children are in the sensorimotor stage, where they begin to understand there is a relationship between their physical movements and the results they sense and perceive.
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The baby develops a specific attachment to its mother.
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The baby develops stranger anxiety, which means that if a stranger is near, they cry and reach for their parents.
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The baby develops separation anxiety, which causes it to be distressed if its mother leaves it.
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Children have object permanence where they understand that objects exist even when they cannot be seen or touched.
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The baby has tripled its birth weight and grown about 10 inches in height.
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The baby starts walking at about 14 to 15 months of age.
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Children begin to use words and symbols to represent objects.
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Children judge themselves according to their cognitive, physical, and social competance.
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Children begin to show signs of adult thinking in the concrete-oprerational stage.