Important achievements of the seventh month of the baby's life
Physical
The kid continues to grow actively, and the third quarter of the first year of life is no exception. During the seventh month of the baby's life, an average weight increase of 600 grams is observed, a growth of 2 cm, a head circumference 0.5 cm, a chest circumference 1.3 cm.
To calculate and evaluate the physical development of the baby, you can use the fatness index. With the help of this index, the level of development of subcutaneous fat in the child is determined. It is calculated by the formula: it is necessary to add three circles of the shoulder (it is determined on the middle third of the shoulder), the circumference of the shin (the thickest part of it), the thigh circumference (in its upper third) and the resulting amount to subtract the child's growth (in centimeters). Normally, this value should be 20-25 cm. If this value is less than the norm, then the child is not well-nourished.
Intellectual
- The kid knows how to concentrate his attention on something, and also stops on the details.
- The child can pronounce the following sounds: "ma", "mo", "di", "yes" and others.
- With great pleasure it is played with sounding toys (wheelchairs, pishchalki, music boxes, hammers, rattles).
- The kid analyzes his own actions.
- With one inhalation, the baby can combine several sounds together.
- The child holds associations between the children seen in the picture or in the photo, with them and demonstrates their emotions with sounds.
Sensory-motor
- The child perfectly keeps a head and well balances it.
- The kid can take different objects with his fingers.
- A six-month-old kid shakes, knocks, smokes, gnaws objects that are in the handles.
- The child can already have two teeth, lower incisors.
- The kid studies his body, both hands and mouth.
- The child confidently sits with an even back, but when you try to use the handle in the game, it topples over.
- The baby moves, crawling on his knees and pens or in a plastic way.
The social
- The kid has a sense of humor.
- Likes to see himself in the mirror.
- The child loves the company and feels uncomfortable alone.
- The kid is familiar with the word "no".
Physical activity
During the seventh month of life, the baby is getting more mobile. He improves his ability to sit. The baby either starts to crawl, or improves this skill, if such attempts were observed during the past month. Each kid learns the skill of crawling in his own way. Some children first learn to put on knees and handles and swing for a long time from side to side, others risk immediately rearrange the handle behind the handle, some "rustle" backwards. I remember how my daughter learned to crawl, as if by jerks pushing the whole body off from the surface of the floor or sofa, and the neighbor's baby moved around the "snail" around the apartment. The main incentive to crawl is a huge interest in knowing the world around us. Ensure maximum safety of the baby: insert the plugs into the sockets, if they are quite low from the floor, remove dangerous, small and sharp objects, limit the sharp corners of the furniture from the reach of the baby. Observe how the child studies the world. If possible, remove the small researcher from the camera.
Sleep of a child
If there are no reasons that affect sleep disturbances, then at this age children sleep more peacefully than in the past months. In the afternoon the child sleeps 2-3 times a day. The time and duration of sleep largely depends on the regime of your family, the accumulated emotions and noise. The baby is already able to turn over and open in a dream. The main thing is to analyze whether the baby will be cold if it opens. It will be logical and useful in the cool season to buy a comfortable warm pajamas for the child. If the apartment is rather cool (17ºС and below), it is best to buy a special sleeping bag for the baby.
Lessons for successful development
What to do with the baby in the seventh month of life? The answer is simple: the following set of exercises that promote the development of motor skills, speech and hearing aids. Here are some examples of such exercises:
- Prepare the fruit jelly and put it on the feeding table in front of the baby. The kid will try to grab slippery pieces of jelly and pull them into the mouth.
- Follow the reaction of the baby to a variety of smells. To do this, prepare a few balls from the bandage, which put a piece of onions, garlic, pinch of cloves, one of them moisten with a pleasant cologne. According to the mimicry of crumbs, his movements you will understand what smells are pleasant to him, and which, on the contrary, do not like.
- Teach your child to clap his hands and play "ladushki."
- Lift the handle up with the baby and put it on the head, saying: "Geese-swans flew," the name of the baby "sat on the head ...".
- Bring the baby to a tape recorder or speakers and let's listen to music, show him where the sound comes from.
- Teach your child a gesture "bye-bye." When someone leaves home, show how to say goodbye, and soon the kid himself will wave to parting for an adult.
- Repeat for the baby sounds from his babbling, so you'll "keep up the conversation" with your daughter or son.
- Offer the child a variety of games with sounds: get a different in sounding rattles, hammers, fill a few metal jars of various cereals. Shake toys or jars in front of the kid so that he can see how you do it.
- Do not forget to look into the eyes of the child, so you will teach him to feel your emotions.
Charge and massage
From the seventh month of the life of the baby I recommend to update the complex of general strengthening exercises and massage. For this, the following complex of exercises will be ideal:
1. In different initial positions, lying on his stomach, lying on his back, sitting, the baby reaches for the toy. To do this, the mother keeps the toy at arm's length from the top, to the left, to the right.
2.I. - on the back. Perform circular movements in the ankle clockwise and counter-clockwise, alternately change the foot. Do not forget to be very careful! Carry out also a light massage of the baby's pads, smearing them with baby milk (for example, "Bübchen"). "Draw" eight and zigzags, baby, for sure, like this massage.
3. I.p. - on the back, the baby resists, makes a push from the adult's hand or from the ball.
4.I. - on the back. Take the kid by the shin and gently help turn the toy to the right and left.
5. Encourage the baby to crawl on the stomach. To do this, use bright toys, which are placed slightly more than the distance of the elongated handle of the baby, utter affectionate words and in every possible way approve of his achievements.
6. I.p. - on the back. Place your index finger in the left hand of the baby, with your other hand, hold his shins or thighs. Tighten the left cam of the crumb to the right leg, stimulating his efforts with a toy and words, encourage the baby to move to the sitting position. Rising, the child should lean on the elbow immediately, and then on the palm of your hand.
7.I. - the kid is standing on the table facing the adult, who supports him under his armpits. This exercise promotes the development of walking skills. Exercise is performed only if the child can stand alone at the support, and there are no other instructions from the orthopedist. Stimulate overstepping, first supporting the child under the armpits, then behind the brushes of both hands, and then, one hand.
8. Ip. - On knees. The kid makes an emphasis on the hands. You support him by the hips and slightly lift above the support surface, while helping him to rest on his hands, leaning on his open palms.
9.I. Standing on the table or on the floor. The kid stands with his back to you, you support him by the feet. The child should get a toy from the table or from the floor: he should bend over, take a toy and straighten up.