The 24 Magic Months app was created to guide parents and carers through this time with trusted and consistent advice from healthcare professionals and parents, helping parents to keep up to date with what to expect at each stage of a child’s development.
The app was created by Liverpool City Council’s Public Health Team and it will help parents and carers to make magic moments and mark every incredible milestone.
24 Magic Months is free to download from the App and Play stores.
24 Magic Months includes quick and simple activities that help babies develop their speech, brain and social skills, as well as encouraging a close relationship between mums and dads and their children.
The advice in the app covers the following topics:
- Social and emotional development
- Physical development
- Learning and play
- Speech and language development
- Feeding
- Bonding and attachment
- Behaviour
- Sleep
- Parental health and wellbeing
- Local support
Features
Personalised, reliable advice about child development
The information available in the 24 Magic Months app was developed with healthcare professionals and local parents so the information is reliable and up to date. Articles cover a variety of focused topics such as language development or sleep, simple tips, as well as general information about the how a child grows.
All information is accessible at all times so that curious parents can find out more about which developmental milestones are coming up for their little one over the coming months.
Children profiles
24 Magic Months allows parents to add multiple children up to the age of 2 years and provides child development information that is relevant to that child’s profile.
Developmental milestone tracker
Developmental milestones allow parents to monitor a child’s development by recording when each milestone is reached. Any milestones that the child achieves are saved onto the App, which is designed to help parents to record and easily evidence their child’s progress.
Videos from local healthcare professionals
24 Magic Months includes a range of videos from healthcare professionals on important topics like sleep, dummies and introducing solid foods.
Local support
24 Magic Months offer information about local support including videos explaining the help available from health visitors and children’s centres, and contact details for health professionals.
Tips and advice from within the app:
Be in the moment
Try to find time during your day where you play and talk to your baby without distraction from your phone or TV. Talking with your baby without distractions and having lots of eye contact is good for your baby’s brain development and for growing a close relationship between you.
You cannot show your baby too much affection
It’s a myth that babies can have too much attention. Your baby needs lots of love and affection from you and other family members to help them feel secure, build confidence and stimulate the brain.
Play and story time
Play and story time are great ways to build a bond with your baby as well as develop their speech and language skills. It doesn’t matter that your little one is too young to understand stories yet, your baby loves the sound of voices and could be beginning to pick out the sounds of separate words.
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Published on Wed, 27 Oct 2021 11:39:14 GMT
Modified on Thu, 28 Oct 2021 14:35:09 GMT