Reddit reviews Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid

As others are saying, most of these sound like reflexes. My friend gave me a book called Experimenting With Babies that ended up being pretty fun to go through at different stages. It could also explain some of what you're experiencing with your kid.

I thought one of the coolest experiments was this: When your baby is standing (on the floor) and holding your hands, lean them forward slightly. They will reflexively move their feet as if they are walking (right-left-right-left). They do this up until about three months old, then the reflex goes away to prepare them to crawl. As they start to learn to walk it comes back.

Got these for my husband.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399162461/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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This was well received by a couple of a similar description:
http://www.amazon.com/Experimenting-Babies-Amazing-Science-Projects/dp/0399162461

Experimenting With Babies. Love that book!

I'm having a good time with Happiest Baby on the Block (though I think it's really slow and repetitive, and their "conclusions" (it isn't this, this, or this, so it MUST be this) are a bit, uh, presumptuous; I think the book is spot on for how to treat the baby, especially in the "4th trimester") and The Nursing Mother's Companion. And these aren't baby books, but my husband and I are also reading Ina May's Guide to Childbirth and The Birth Partner to prep for labor.

I have a few more books on my shelf to reference just in case, like Sears' The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (but I am wary of anti-vacc notions of the book), Brain Rules for Baby, and for fun, Experimenting with Babies.

My husband got me a book called Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid that explains this and other neat developmental phenomena. It is great fun.

Random enough, somebody shared this book in my local Buy Nothing group on FB this week. Might be just what you’re looking for.

Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid https://www.amazon.com/dp/0399162461/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_rfJRDbR3FKY4Z

FWIW - I have not read the book so I’m not endorsing it or experiments on your children. 😄

http://www.amazon.com/Experimenting-Babies-Amazing-Science-Projects/dp/0399162461

This was a fun book and explains a lot about development. It helped my husband bond a bit more when he felt like there wasn't much he could do.

I bought my husband this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Experimenting-Babies-Amazing-Science-Projects/dp/0399162461

It's a very easygoing read and the 'experiments' are simple and fun