@aspyrelab: Ever wonder why your newborn balls up the second you lift them? 🥺 It traces back to the third trimester, when the womb runs out of room and folds them into that snug tucked shape. They are basically born still holding the only position they have ever known. So every time you scoop them up and feel that whole-body squeeze, you are watching leftover womb wiring fire in real time. Then somewhere across the first few months it quietly eases off, and almost no parent clocks the exact day it goes. A looser body is not your baby going less cuddly on you. It is the thinking part of their brain taking the wheel from raw reflex. Film the tuck while it lasts, and give plenty of skin to skin and floor time so tone develops in both directions. Smoother, more aimed movements are cortical control coming online, so the stretch and reach is the next chapter, not a lost one. Did you catch your baby's last scrunch, or did it slip by like it does for most of us? 👇 Maximise your child's potential, starting from before they're born. Our stage-by-stage courses launch soon, add your email at the link in bio to get in first. Follow Aspyre Lab for daily science-backed parenting tips 🧬 No copyright infringement intended. We aim to give proper credit - DM us for any concerns, credit, or removal requests. 📚 Sources: Thelen et al., The Relationship Between Physical Growth and a Newborn Reflex; Frontiers in Physiology, Muscle Responses to Passive Joint Movements in Infants During the First Year; Review of Medical Embryology, Physiologic Development of the Central Nervous System; Physiologic Flexion and Preterm Infant Positioning (PMC)

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