Nurturing your baby’s brain

Dr. Jonathan Auth of Sea View Pediatrics in Irvine (Photo by Thu Huyen)
In the first few years of life, a child’s brain is a living map, with more than 1 million new neural connections being formed every second.
Imagine roads and highways reaching out toward the sprouting rooftops of distant towns and cities, mountains pushing up, oceans unfurling like cloth, sparkling and blue. As an infant grows, this profusion of industry becomes more regulated.
In a process sometimes called “bloo