Gross Motor Skill Development - 1 to 12 Months Baby

As babies grow, their skills are also grown. Babies develop at their own rate, learning some skills much quicker than others, including in developing their gross motor skill from 1 month until 12 months old. Here is the development of baby’s gross motor skill.

• 1 month: head bobs when held upright, kicks feet when on back
• 2 months: lifts head briefly when placed on tummy
• 3 months: lifts head 2 to 3 inches off surface and pushes up with forearms when placed on tummy
• 4 months: straightens legs when feet touch a flat surface; when on tummy, lifts head and chest off surface while looking forward
• 5 months: rolls from tummy to back (always supervise to avoid falls); pulls self forward to sitting position when you hold baby’s hands
• 6 months: sits briefly without support; rolls from back to tummy
• 6 months to 12 months:
  
  • reaches for feet
  • sits alone
  • stands with support
  • creeps and crawls on hands and knees
  • moves from tummy to sitting position
  • pulls on furniture to stand up
  • walks sideways while holding onto furniture
  • briefly stands without support
  • lowers self to floor with control
  • takes steps with hands held

Hopefully this post about gross motor skill development in 1 to 12 months baby can be useful for you and for your beloved one.

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Visual Ability Development: 0 to 2 Years

The visual ability of your baby starts to develop along with the maturity of the brain and also the strength of muscles around the eye ball. Nevertheless, the development of the visual ability is not only about seeing objects, but also understanding of what your baby see.

Generally, here are the development stages of visual ability in your baby:

1. When baby was born, they can turn to the light source and wink their eyes.


2. At eight weeks of age, your baby is already able to focus to the objects around.


3. At twelve weeks of age, your baby is able to follow moving objects.


4. At six months old, your baby is able to move their body in order to get the right position so that they can see the objects that draw their attention.


5. At twelve months old, their tear duct have fully been formed.


6. At two years old, your baby is able to see the very small objects, means that their visual ability is getting develop.

Do not forget to routinely stimulate your baby’s visual ability in your own way in order to be developed properly.

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Self-Help Skill Development In Baby: 1 To 12 Months

Basically, every baby has the ability to be an own master for themselves. Their independent ability is looked when they started to have their playing a game activity. By playing a game, their understanding of the environment around them will be much grown. As parents, we must always provide stimulations for our baby, so their ability to be independent will develop in accordance with their age. In this particular post, I want to share about self-help ability in baby that should be skilled by them month by month.

By 1 Month: your baby can coordinately suck when they are breastfeeding or drinking formulae milk through a nipple artificial.

By 2 Months: baby has already been able to open their mouth when see breast or nipple artificial.

By 3 Months: show their interest or enthusiasm feeling when seeing mother’s breast (ASI) or nipple artificial.

By 4 Months: start to place their toys into their mouth.

By 5 Months: put their both hands on mother’s breast or bottle when milk-feeding.

By 6 Months: able to hold the bottle or cup by themselves when drinking milk (breast milk) or mineral water.

By 6 to 12 months:

1. Able to hold their bottle by themselves.


2. Able to feed themselves by using their thumb and finger tips.


3. Start to be able to hold the spoon and try to feed themselves.


4. Drink water or milk from the covered cup or directly drink it from the open cup by sips via the edge of the cup.

The self-help skill in our beloved baby is able to be trained even when they were still baby, because basically they have possessed those skills since they were born. With the right stimulations from us, as their parents, will deliver them to be a person who is independent and not depend on the other people. So, let us give our baby stimulations in order to make their self-help skill develop optimally. Have fun with your little one

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Don’t Over Stimulate Your Baby: See Why

It is not wrong at all if parents want to give stimulations for their beloved baby. As I mentioned in my previous posting that stimulation for baby is aimed to optimize baby’s ability in order to prepare skills for them in their developing period. But you have to be careful the stimulation that in the beginning are purposed to give to your baby in order to make them develop optimally can be turned into nightmare causing negative impacts for your beloved one.

It can be happened if you put certain target to be fulfilled by your baby when you’re stimulating them. Moreover, if you stimulate your baby with an intention to make them to be able to fulfill your target so that your baby doesn’t left behind from the other baby will also turn stimulation into pressure to your baby. Stimulation that should have given positive enhancement in the beginning, then turned into an order that should be fulfilled by baby. Therefore, the result is not anymore a skilled-full baby, but an easy-afraid baby.

According to the experts, stimulations that are given are supposedly aimed only to sharpen baby’s skill, not for accelerating their developmental skill before the time. This conclusion is taken because basically the development of baby is based on their maturity-level. It means that your baby will develop if only they are ready for it, and it is occur in every category, including motor development, language development, and social-emotional development.

Giving too much stimulation to baby not only result nothing, but also will give bad effects for their development, because they are pressured by the stimulation to do many things beyond their ability. Fussy is a sign that you can see if baby receives too much stimulation. Even, in extreme cases, too much stimulation can cause physical disturbance to be emerged, such as ulcer and other classical symptoms that an adult usually experience it, headache, stomachache, or acute exhaustion, for instance. Besides, the experts also said that more complex of physiological disturbance can be experienced by your baby if they receive too much stimulation, but it is happened after they turn into teenager until adult.So, don't over stimulate your baby. .....Read the fullpost >>>

Sitting Ability Development

Baby‘s ability in crawling, sitting, and walking are happened in various age along with their coordination development of the body. It also depends on their weight and their temperament. Fat baby will slower to crawl or to sit compared to normal baby. In order to sit, baby needs exercise and also the strength of their head, neck, shoulders, chest, and whole body. O-3 month old baby has not been able yet to lift their head. Lifting head ability will be possessed by 4-6 months old baby when they are in tummy position particularly.

Sitting ability in baby will develop along with the increasing of their age.

1. At six months old, baby is very happy if their body is positioned in sitting position. At this age, baby starts to be able to lift their own head, some baby even is already able to fully control their head.
2. At seven months old, your baby seems to be like to play with their feet.
3. At eight to nine months old, your baby starts to learn to lift their body in order to sit. In this period of age, they are already to sit by someone’s help.
4. At ten months old, your baby is already able to sit by themselves, because their neck, their shoulders, and their body are getting stronger to support their sitting position. Besides, they also are already able to fully control their head and their chest.
5. At eleven months old, your baby is already able to sit freely with more balance.
6. At twelve months old, your baby is already able to sit perfectly.

Hopefully, this information will help you in monitoring the development of your baby’s sitting ability month by month.

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Teething Signs

Parents usually would feel happy when they know that their baby’s teeth start to come out. You can know it by paying attention to the signs of teething. When they’re teething usually baby will show the teething signs. By knowing the signs you could as soon as possible handle the baby, because teething can be a stressful and painful time not only for your baby, but also for you. Here are the points of teething signs:

1. Painful. Baby will show the signs that they are suffering from painful and feeling discomfort.


2. Restless. Painful caused by their teething will make baby fussy and restless, and they will be more spoiled in a day or two days before the teeth comes out.


3. Red cheek. Baby’s cheek will look red when their teething has arrived.


4. Excessive saliva. The excess of saliva when their teeth start to come out will make baby always drooling, so make sure to wipe babies face often to avoid a rash or discomfort.


5. They’re always want to chew or bite something. Baby will bite everything that is near around their mouth. In order to handle their desire you can give them something to chew on, for example carrot or celery sticks or a cold washcloth, as long as it is big enough for them not to choke it will work.


6. Swollen gums. Look into your baby’s gums to see if their gums look red or swollen. You can give their sore gums a gel that can help ease the pain, but don’t rub whisky on your baby’s gums or place aspirin against the tooth.


7. Awake often. Baby will often awake at night and they will cry, although they slept tight at yesterday.


8. Their temperature will slightly increase than usual.


9. Their bottom will painful. Although the relation between teething and painful bottom is still unclear, but several babies will easier have diaper rash when their teeth start to come out, and their stool will be diluter also.

Although teething can be a stressful and uncomfortable time for your baby and you, it is possible for you to ease your baby's discomfort or completely eliminate it and make this transitional period easier on you and your child.

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