Fret less about your baby’s development.
Use our unique drawings and descriptions to spot 56 hidden signs of progress. You’ll worry less and smile more.
Watching for subtle signs of progress with parent-friendly tools is easy and rewarding.
Feel like an impostor parent?
Caring for a baby is exhausting, boring, and occasionally scary.
Between all the feedings, mid-night wake-ups, and dirty diapers, one often feels overwhelmed.
Time drags. Celebrated events like crawling and walking never seem to arrive. You wonder if you can manage this job of parenting.
Actually, you share such doubts and fears with almost every other parent. There’s no preventive medicine, but there’s a way to alleviate the symptoms.
Babies master many critical, subtle, but largely unknown skills between birth and 18 months. Spotting them will reassure you.
You truly can spot hidden signs of progress.
Overlooked motor and postural signs of your baby’s achievements happen in plain sight.
However, most of them are undramatic and subtle.
Some are fleeting. None are announced. Which is why they usually go unrecognized and unremarked.
56 Signs Guide
The 56 Signs Guide provides instructions and a recording sheet. It will advise you about the details of each Sign and when to start watching for it .
56 Signs Card Deck
The Deck cards is a handy observational tool with featuring a pack of cards with one milestone per card. With them, you can have key information at hand when you are expecting a new Sign.
With that information, you’ll recognize a Sign when it first appears. Write down the date, smile, and compliment Baby on their achievement. Your record of the dates when Baby mastered new skills can be used to create a treasured graphic.
56 Signs Graph
A 56 Signs Graph is a graph of Baby’s progress that you can create as a valued keepsake.
Grab your free 56 Signs Sampler
Send me your name and email, and I’ll send you a sampler of some of the Signs of baby progress that you could notice and celebrate.
About
I’m a father of four and a retired university professor. I taught and studied infant and child development for nearly 40 years.
For one multi-year project we asked new parents to complete a daily checklist diary about their baby’s milestones for many months. We didn’t know if they would.
More than 500 agreed, and most sent us completed checklists for months. They learned a lot and so did we.
One very clear conclusion was that most parents really enjoy watching for unrecognized signs of baby progress.
After retiring, I’ve had the time to create a parent tool that builds on what I learned from that study and those parents.
That tool is 56 Signs. I hope you find it useful.
Regards,
Warren.
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