Of course, when the time comes all the children will crawl and sit down and stand up, but with the parental help, which is in various massage techniques, in daily exercise, this process will go faster. Therefore, the development of a child in 7-8 months, whether it's a boy or a girl, directly depends on us, the parents.
With the help of simple manipulations, we daily strengthen the muscular corset of the child, who holds the spine. This is very important for the further formation of the posture of the baby, because when it rises on the legs and starts walking, the pressure and load on the vertebrae will increase many times.
What can a baby do?
It is impossible to clearly set the norms for each month of the child's life, which the child will have to follow. Mom should understand that all the children are individual, and therefore expect from the son or daughter of what the neighbor boy or girl already knows, it is simply dishonest. It will take some couple of weeks, and the child will begin to do what is inherent in it by nature.
As a rule, boys are more nimble in physical terms than girls, and for 1-2 weeks begin to sit or crawl before, but this does not mean their genius, because otherwise (the correctness of speech, memory), girls will soon surpass them.
Seven-month-olds can already sit pretty well without support, and by eight months bring their skills to perfection, practically without falling to the side or forward.
Seven months is the age when the kids try to crawl. Mom can stimulate a baby's desire to learn a new kind of activity. This will require a bright toy, which the child wants to get. Moving first lying on his tummy, and then, getting on all fours, he will soon understand how to coordinate the work of pens and legs to get to the cherished goal.
Many children of seven months already try to get up on legs in a crib or an arena. First they stand on their feet on their knees, and then, pulling themselves to the side of their arms, they stand, staggering, on still unsteady legs.
To strengthen the muscles, the mother must certainly once a day massage feet, calf muscles and lumbar spine. At first, standing up on his feet, the child does not know how to sit, and therefore, after plenty of insistence, begins to whine, and eventually falls exhausted.
The development of the baby in 7 months will be more fruitful if the child is involved in games. The kid is useful all sorts of pyramids, soft cubes, simple sorter and games in hide and seek, when the mother hides a toy from the child, within its visibility, and the baby finds.
Very much like children of the game with the participation of self-made musical, or rather noise, instruments. To do this, small grocery bottles are filled with different cereals, which sound differently and the baby happily taraats them, and eventually learns to distinguish by sound.
Approximate diet of a baby in 7 months
The main product in children of this age is still milk or an adapted mixture. The nutrition of a 7 month baby who is on artificial feeding for 2 weeks is ahead of those who are breastfeeding. That is, new products are supposed to be introduced into the diet only a little earlier.
Children 7-8 months have already tried a variety of fruit purees - apple, banana, pear, some porridge has also been tried. Right now it is necessary to acquaint the child with sour-milk products - low-fat curd and kefir, and also to enter meat - steam chicken or beef tefelki or meat puree.
As an example, you can try these products during the day:
- breakfast: formula or breast milk;
- second breakfast: milk or dairy-free cereal, fruit juice, milk supplement;
- Lunch: vegetable puree with the addition of meat or vegetable, supplemented with breast milk or a mixture;
- afternoon snack: any fruit puree, milk supplement;
- Dinner: mixture or breast milk.
Morning and evening feeding exclude complementary foods, and during the day it is recommended to first give the baby a main course, and then milk with milk or a mixture.