Benefits of Laughter for Babies

Seeing your baby's laugh is certainly a very pleasant thing. It's become commonplace for parents to take her baby to play and joke that sometimes can make her baby laughing merrily. In addition to these activities could be closer bond between mother and baby, it can be useful also for the health of our babies.

Mother, your baby actually imitate you. He saw how other people laugh when I saw or heard something. He began to digest and eventually emulate. So when there are things that he funny, he laughed outright. Do not be surprised also if the baby laugh sometimes sound strange, like someone singing with staccato techniques and even chuckling with the volume loud enough. Actually this is because the larynx was not yet fully formed so that he could not control her laughter.

Here are the benefits that can laugh at your baby can:

    For babies, laughed for a minute the same as exercising 20 minutes. So, when your baby laugh, he is exercising.
    Laughter can stimulate baby's brain to produce hormones that can trigger the release of endorphins (pain-killing substance)

Knowing the benefits of course we ask him to play so much spirit and humor. However, it can sometimes be difficult also to make her laugh. To be able to laugh, we need "shock" (surprise). Here are some "surprises" that can stimulate your baby laugh.

    Wiggle your face. Sometimes, with a little stuck out your tongue and pull faces. In fact, cast your eyes had been able to make a baby laughing.
    Tickling her waist or her feet with your fingers, or kissed her stomach, usually the baby will burst out laughing.
    Playing peekaboo. Close and reopen your face with your palms, with a slight pull of his face showing a smile or your laugh. Babies will get excited if accompanied by the sound a bit surprising. Or, create a "curtain" that limits with your baby. When the "curtain" was opened quickly, the baby will look on your face that the original "lost", came back with a laugh.
    Sing children's songs with his body swinging in your lap. At the end of the song, create a bit of a surprise by turning up a few words. Typically, the baby will love it and laugh.