Newborns aged 6- 12 months pay attention to these details, which will be of great help to the baby's future.

The last article talked about the baby's growth and development from 0 to 6 months, and the small details that our parents need to pay attention to. This article will talk about the small details that need to be paid attention to during the period of 6- 12 months.

6-7 months

The normal weight of the baby at this stage is between 6 kg and 9.5 kg, the head circumference is between 39.5 cm and 45.5 cm, and the body length is between 62-72 cm.

What are the important developments of baby's behavior and cognition at this stage? What should I pay attention to?

During this period, the baby's first important change is that he will begin to explore the near-end environment, so we will find that the baby's vision is getting bigger and bigger at this time. Six months ago, the baby observed the surrounding environment with 90-degree vision. Now he can observe the surrounding environment with 180-degree vision. The baby's vision is slowly expanding up and down. At this time, the baby can see farther and wider.

The second change is that the baby's auditory localization ability will become more and more mature at this time, and the sound localization ability will become better, so the baby's changes to external sounds will be more clear now.

The third change is the baby's hand. As mentioned in the last article, after 6 months, grasping reflex began to degenerate completely, and at this time, the baby can use the palm independently. At this time, the baby will start to grasp things with the palm of his hand and take toys and other things. At this time, we will find that the baby will grasp things tightly by himself.

At this time, the baby will have the most obvious change, which all our parents must pay attention to, that is, the fine movements are developed. At this time, the baby's most obvious change is that the baby's two hands begin to alternate. We will find that the baby starts to take things with his right hand and then puts them on his left hand across the middle line, and the baby's ability to coordinate his hands appears, which is a very important change for the baby at this time.

Babies over six months old can pick up all kinds of small toys around them by themselves. At this time, we should pay attention to putting away dangerous goods at home.

Besides the development of hands, what about the development of body muscles?

At this time, the baby's anti-gravity muscle group has slowly begun to develop the trunk. At this stage, the baby's focus is on developing the upper torso, and the baby's ability to get on the torso will get better and better.

At this time, play some small games and interact with the baby. We will find that at this time, the baby's neck and head can be lifted by itself, and the whole upper body can also be lifted by itself. The whole person can bend and tilt freely, unlike half a year ago when he could only raise his head, it may be difficult to lift it elsewhere.

We will find that when the stability of the baby's upper body matures, the whole upper body can also be lifted. The most obvious action is that the baby can spin in the same place, that is, the stomach sticks to the ground like a turntable and turns around on the ground. At this time, it means that the baby's upper body is mature. At this time, we can take some small toys to guide the baby, such as making some sounds around the baby to attract his attention. Let the baby try to explore by himself. The main purpose of this is to let the baby slowly broaden his horizons and expand his horizons. At this time, the baby's vision is about 180 degrees, and he can see from left to right, so he can see more widely. So at this time, we play some games to catch things for the baby, and then put these objects at the far left and right, even a little higher and lower. There is also a game of knocking at the door, where two toys collide and make a clang.

At this stage, the baby will also have a major breakthrough in language development. At this time, the baby's language imitation ability has begun to improve. Instead of monosyllabic repetition a few months ago, there will be disyllabic sounds, that is, disyllabic sounds will begin to appear.

7-8 months

At this stage, the normal weight of the baby is between 6.4kg- 10.3kg, the length is about 63.9cm-74.3cm, and the head circumference is between 40.5kg-46.5cm. What are the important developments of the baby at this stage?

During this period, the trunk part of the baby's anti-gravity muscle group will begin to become more and more mature. What is the most obvious change in this period? That is, the baby can sit up by himself, and we will find that the baby can sit up by himself without hands at this time.

Usually, most babies over 7 months old can sit up by themselves, sit, eat and play games. In fact, we should pay more attention at this time, because the baby has just learned to sit, and it is still possible to sit backwards. We can put a big pillow behind the baby to protect the baby's head.

In addition, many babies will crawl by themselves at this time. In fact, they will start climbing by themselves in seven months.

The crawling mentioned here is not that the baby can shake back and forth, but that the baby's ass can shake back and forth and climb forward. This ability can't be achieved until the baby's lower body is mature. Therefore, the baby can climb forward, backward or shake in a full-four posture. This may have to wait until the baby is older, so many people will say that "seven sitting and eight crawling" is the origin of this.

In other words, the baby can climb when he is 7 months old, but when he can really climb independently or mature and diversified, it will be 8-9 months. Don't worry at this time. When the baby's calf is stronger, it will naturally climb better.

Where is the baby still developing at this stage?

At this time, the baby will have a very important change, that is, the baby will begin to have a more obvious concept of object continuity, and this ability will begin to appear at this time. What does object persistence mean?

The persistence of an object means that the baby is out of sight and out of mind before this time period, so it doesn't exist in his mind.

However, after 7 months, the baby is not so gullible. Although the baby's object endurance is already available at this time, it is still in a very low primary stage. For example, if we put a piece of cloth on the toy now, if we don't see it before, the baby will think it is gone, but then the baby will observe the outline prompt on the cloth, he will know that the toy is still below, and he will open the cloth to cover the toy himself.

So at this time, we can play some small games like hide-and-seek with the baby, such as covering some toys with cloth and letting the baby find it by himself. We can use this hidden game to strengthen the baby's ability to keep things fresh, which means that the baby has started to remember things and recognize people at this time, so we will find another related change at this stage, which is also the most interesting and important change in the baby's development stage. It's called "stranger anxiety".

Before 7-8 months, we will find that although the baby can recognize people, he will only recognize people he often contacts.

For example, the baby will recognize his mother and respond better to her than others, but we will find that before 7-8 months, basically no one will resist taking care of him, but the response to his mother will be better.

But after eight months, the obvious change has come out, that is, the baby will have the psychological illusion of anxiety of strangers. He will start some people not to cry, for example, strangers will start to cry, and if they turn around and hug their parents, they will stop crying immediately.

This is because the baby's attachment develops between two months and seven months and does not depend on a specific object.

But after 7 months, the baby will begin to enter the so-called explicit attachment, or more differentiated, with the attachment of a specific object.

We will find the baby's "who do I want" state at this time, so the baby's stranger anxiety will become very strong at this time. In fact, after 8 months, especially between 1 year-old tails, we will feel that this behavior will become very strong during this period. Therefore, when we take care of the baby in this period, we must know a concept. Before the attachment relationship matures when the baby is two years old, there are two "periods".

The first period is our present stage, and the tail is from July to August to one year old. At this time, the baby will have the strongest stranger anxiety.

The second stage is 15 months to 20 months, almost at the end of 2 years old. At this time, the baby's separation anxiety will be the strongest.

This kind of change will occur in these two periods, which is actually normal, but we should not aggravate the baby's anxiety in these two periods, nor deliberately change the original living environment or caregivers, because the baby is in a sensitive period during this period, and random changes will make the baby more anxious.

In fact, the baby will have this sensitive period of "stranger anxiety" during this period, because during this period, the baby's brain will secrete a lot of "endorphins", which is called "autism degeneration".

When we humans are very anxious, the brain will secrete a very interesting chemical called "Nedofen", which will make our brain feel happy. This is a self-protection mechanism. Things like nedofen can make people happy, but its side effect is that it will hurt our brains.

Especially before the baby is two years old, during this period, the baby's central nervous system is still very fragile. If too much nedofen is secreted during this period, it will have the opposite effect. It will damage the baby's brain structure and brain tissue. If it only hurts the baby's frontal lobe, it will have a great impact on the baby. The frontal lobe of our brain is the highest function of the brain and the most fragile mirror neuron. These important functions are all in the frontal lobe of the brain. Once the frontal lobe function degenerates, it will be secreted and degraded by Nedofen, and the baby's own behavior will also change, and there may be autistic changes.

Therefore, at this time, we should pay special attention to not changing the baby's caregiver and living environment at these two important time points before the age of two.

Besides these, what else should we pay attention to?

At this time, we should pay attention to the baby's daily routine to see if it has become more regular, when the baby gets up and when he goes to bed.

At this time, it is necessary to help the baby gradually establish a good schedule. Under normal circumstances, the baby must go to bed before 8 pm. The baby's life schedule must be very healthy and regular, and when we take care of the baby ourselves, we should also have a regular life schedule.

Besides, we shouldn't always change people to take care of babies. The main caregiver should be very clear that the baby's living environment will basically not change much. Also give the baby a relatively stable environment. Simply put, the baby's whole life schedule and environment should be very orderly and consistent, which is more beneficial to the baby's future development.

8-9 months

At this stage, the normal weight of the baby is between 6.5kg- 10.5kg, the body length is about 64.5cm-75.5cm, and the head circumference is between 40.9 cm and 46.9 cm. In addition to physical development, what changes have taken place in the baby's other development at this stage?

During 8 to 9 months, the baby will have a very important change, that is, the baby will have more than four actions to play with toys. Before this period, we will find that the baby's operation mode for a toy is very monotonous, and the baby is biting and throwing toys.

But now the baby can operate a toy in many ways. He can use more than four ways: grasping, pulling, buckling and shaking. In fact, careful observation will reveal these details.

This time period means that the baby's ability to explore objects will get better and better. In this process, the baby can learn more and more about the attributes of an object, and the gameplay of functional games begins to develop from here.

What is functional gameplay? Is to operate according to the basic properties of the object. This is called functional play. For example, the baby will know that the car has been pushed and the tambourine has been shaken.

Therefore, the baby will begin to develop diversified operation modes during this period, which is a very important basis for the baby's functional development between/kloc-0 and 3 years old.

So what should we pay attention to?

At this time, the demonstration made by our parents is very important, because our demonstration is the most intuitive teaching for the baby. Now, the baby's play of toys has changed from simplification to diversification, and we should also enjoy it.

At this time, the baby will also observe us and imitate us. In fact, at this time, we will start to guide the baby and teach him how to make a toy into a functional play.

At this time, it is necessary to start interacting with the baby and playing games. It is a diversified way to play for the baby, to play for the baby and to teach the baby how to play.

When playing games with your baby, you should guide your baby. The key point is to guide the baby to explore an object in a diversified way, that is, through our demonstration, let the baby learn more kinds of operation methods, operate an object and play with a toy.

Here I emphasize the baby's autonomous function again. The baby's autonomy is definitely not created out of thin air, but gradually developed through the baby's independent learning and the intentional or unintentional teaching of our parents.

So our company is very important.

We play with the baby, we explore intellectual toys with the baby, which can stimulate the baby's brain development, and we will also have a lot of fun in the interaction with the baby and enhance the parent-child relationship.

In addition, what development does the baby of 8 to 9 months need to pay attention to?

At the age of 8 months, the baby's upper central incisors will slowly grow out. At first, there will be two teeth in the upper jaw and two teeth in the lower jaw, which adds up to four teeth. At this time, the baby will learn to chew, and the chewing action will be brought out because of the baby's own development.

Therefore, the baby will chew better after 8 months. At this time, we can use some toys, such as tooth fixators or chewing sticks, for children to chew. We will prepare more toys, because at this time, the baby especially likes to bite, or we can give the baby some tooth cakes and some soft and crisp food for him to chew, because at this stage, the baby likes to take food into his mouth by himself.

At this time of 8 9 months, the development of the whole anti-gravity muscle group has reached the lower body. What changes will happen after the lower body matures?

The first one is that the baby can not only sit up, but also sit for a longer time. Compared with a seven-month-old baby, we can sit and play for ten or twenty minutes now, and we can sit still, so it is more convenient for us to play games with our baby.

In addition, the baby's ability in crawling will get better and better. At this time, the baby can hold things and slowly try to stand up by himself. During this period, the baby's ability begins to show slowly, that is, the baby will begin to learn to stand up by himself at this stage.

Moreover, at this time, if the baby crawls, he can crawl back and forth, and his crawling ability is already very good. The grabbing function is basically mature. We must have heard of it more or less. Babies can certainly crawl when they are young. If he doesn't learn to crawl, it's too bad. Why not learn to crawl?

The key point of not climbing is disharmony. 0- 1 year-old baby can't climb. What is the most important moral?

The most important thing is that the baby's anti-gravity muscle group has problems. If the baby doesn't climb by himself at this stage, the first one is that the baby's natural anti-gravity muscle group has problems. For example, some babies with cerebral palsy and brain injury have poor muscle tone and he can't climb at all.

The second one: a baby who can't crawl by himself may imply that his anti-gravity muscle group training is not solid enough. He may have been held by us since he was a child, and we basically didn't give the baby room for his own activities. In this case, the baby's anti-gravity muscle group can't be trained.

Therefore, not crawling means that the baby's anti-gravity muscle group is either innate or acquired. You should know that the anti-gravity muscle group is the basis of the baby's whole movement development in the future. If the baby's gross movement, fine movement and anti-gravity muscle group function are not well developed, there is no problem now, but when the baby develops gross movement in the next 2-4 years, or when the baby develops fine movement at the age of 3.5 or 4-8. At this time, the baby's problems will jump out, indicating that we really need to let the baby climb and move more.

9- 10 months

At this stage, the normal weight of the baby is 6.5kg- 1 1kg, the body length is 65.9cm-76cm, and the head circumference is 4 1.5-47.5 cm.

Besides physical development, how is the baby developing in other aspects?

The most obvious change during this period is that the baby will intentionally start interacting with us with his own voice. At this time, the baby will take the initiative to call us to play with him.

What is the baby's developmental order? We mentioned it in the last article, that is, feeling, action and language.

Oral sensation brings oral movements. 8-9 months is the baby's oral sensory development period. This month naturally brings out verbal actions, that is, "language."

So the baby's next obvious change this month is to learn the language. At this time, the baby will start to say something that looks like language, but we can't understand what the baby is saying.

And this month's baby, under some hints, some gestures or some environmental hints, we will find that the baby seems to begin to understand what we are talking to him and can understand the conversation between adults.

For example, if we hold a snack in our hand and ask the baby if he wants to eat it, the baby may nod or come and get it directly, but the baby's understanding is still very shallow.

There is a science called situational understanding. What is situational understanding?

That is, the baby doesn't really understand the meaning of every word we say, but he will recognize what we say, the tone, or the sound line change of the cadence tone, and then cooperate with the environment, our gestures, or our facial expressions and some nonverbal information, so the baby seems to understand what we are saying, so we should interact with the baby more at this time, and the baby will come to us actively. We must give the baby a correct and timely response.

Don't say that we ignore the baby when we are busy, which is not acceptable, especially at this time, if we ignore the baby, it will ruin the baby's desire for interaction, and the baby will not take the initiative to interact with us, which will also cause the baby's interaction ability to decline.

When we want to interact with our baby, we should remember that both spoken and non-spoken language are very important, that is, we should not only use spoken language, but also provide him with a lot of non-spoken information, including gestures, facial expressions and tone changes. We talk to babies, which is different from talking to adults. When we talk to the baby, we should speak slowly and deliberately. The most important thing is to help the baby understand.

Apart from the development of oral language, what is the development of body movements at this time?

At eight or nine months, the baby can stand up with something. By September 10, the key point is that the baby can squat down with something. Babies are very interesting at this time. We have an old saying that "it is easier to go up the mountain than down it". It is definitely easier to go up than down, because the stability requirements will be greater. So what the baby can practice at this stage is to hold the stool, sofa and wall, and then squat down.

10- 1 1 month

At present, the normal weight of the baby is between 6.8kg- 1 1.2kg, the body length is between 67cm-78cm, and the head circumference is between 41.7cm-47.8cm. What about other development besides physical development?

The first big change at this stage is that the baby will consciously start some functional games by himself. We can find that the baby will consciously put something into the container at this time, or try to dig out some parts for assembling toys, or take out some toys from the toy pile. What does this mean?

This means that the baby now has the concept of container, that is, in the baby's mind, it can put things in this thing that I often play with, and the baby will now start to have some rigid operations.

Another change is related to the development of the concept of object persistence. By this month, babies can begin to simply remember the location of objects. For example, when he is looking for a toy ball, he will turn it out of the toy pile, which means that the baby now remembers that the toy ball should be in the toy pile, but now he can't see it, but it must be persistent, and the object will always exist somewhere inside.

What kind of games should you play with your baby at this stage to stimulate him?

At this time, we will find that if we hide, the baby will come to you and we can play hide-and-seek or treasure hunt with the baby. What are we practicing when we play this game with our baby? I am practicing short-term memory.

At this time, the baby still likes to stand, because in the late one-year-old, the center of gravity of the baby's entire anti-gravity muscle group development has returned to the buttocks (buttocks). At this time, the baby's physical exercise ability has changed. The first one: the baby can start to follow the wall.

At this time, the baby can't walk independently, but the baby has a way to hold our bodies or walls and start moving. At this time, you can let go for a short time, and sometimes you can let your baby try to move by himself. The baby's hip function has just begun to develop, and its stability is not so good at first, so it is still necessary to make more snacks.

Now that the baby can walk with his hands, can he still hold the walker?

Personally, I don't recommend a walker. Many parents used to buy a walker for their baby this month, because at this time, the baby is learning to walk and can move with the help of walls or other objects. But at this time we gave the baby a walker, which means that the baby moves with the help of the walker.

Why don't I personally recommend using a walker?

Because the feedback of the walker to the baby's action experience is wrong, that is, when we really walk, we will fall down when we lean to a certain angle, but no matter which angle we lean to the walker, it will help the baby to hold on, so it gives the baby a wrong action experience. The actions and behaviors established by the baby under the wrong experience feedback are actually different from the actual learning to walk.

In other words, when we put the baby on the walker, the baby can walk, but after leaving the walker, can the baby walk?

No, that's completely different, so using a walker will hinder the baby's development and really walk naturally, so I personally suggest that the baby try not to use a walker for the time being, but we should help the baby and encourage him to learn to walk by himself. At this time, it is very important to have fences everywhere in the house, which is very suitable for babies at this time. Because the baby has to move a lot and walk a lot at this time, it is necessary to start encouraging the baby to move with things.

Some people think that walkers have safety considerations. Some people even think that the walker will cause the baby's bad habits of O-legs and pads. However, compared with parents who take care of their babies, it is really much more convenient to have a walker. If you want to use a walker for your baby, you should consider the frequency and time of use.

1 1- 12 months

The normal weight of the baby at this stage is between 7kg- 1 1.5kg, the height is about 68cm-79cm, and the head circumference is between 43cm-48.2cm. What is the development of the baby at this stage except physical development?

At this time, the baby will begin to explore the remote environment. Now the baby will not only explore the proximal and lateral sides, but also explore the remote environment, so the most obvious change is that we will find that the baby can already start to see things beyond 3 meters.

When a baby looks at something far away, his hands can't be touched, and no matter how he moves his body, he can't touch anything more than 3 meters, so the baby will start to pay attention to the changes of people and things more than 3 meters away and keep his attention for a few minutes.

Generally, the algorithm of baby's attention at this time period has a very simple formula, that is, how good and how bad is the baby's attention at this time period?

In fact, for a preschool baby, the simplest algorithm is to multiply his age by 3 to 5 to convert it into minutes, which is a very reasonable time for the baby to concentrate. Of course, this emphasizes neutral activities. The so-called neutral activities are not the favorite or the most annoying. Ordinary activities, such as a one-year-old baby's attention, should be about 3-5 minutes, and his concentrated observation of distant objects is about 3 minutes.

The baby's concentration time is so short at this time, so what games can we play with the baby?

At this time, you can start to play some simple interactive games with your baby, with more people, or interactive games with more than two people, such as pppassss passing the ball to the first child, the first to the second, the second to the third, and passing the ball.

Simple interactive game of passing, with the nature of maintaining attention. The baby should keep his attention, because the ball is sometimes near the end and sometimes moves to the far end, so the baby should keep it.

A baby who is about to turn one year old can be said to be a voice-activated baby. At this time, the baby will begin to have the ability to follow instructions. By 1 1- 12 months, he could understand and follow the instructions. For example, let the baby bring us something, some simple daily necessities, familiar objects, and let the baby bring us something. At this time, the baby will be given to us.

In addition to being able to follow instructions, the development of body movements is also very mature.

At this time, the stability of the baby's anti-gravity muscle group-the last part of the buttocks-is more mature. An obvious ability is that the baby can squat now, even a bit like a high kneeling position. He can also take something and squat down to pick it up.