![]() Play games like 'Here is your nose - here is mummy's nose'.Babies need interaction with other people much more than play-time with toys.Suggestions on encouraging and supporting your baby's development include: Conceptually, they are learning about up and down as well as coming and going, and will love to play games that act these things out. Fun activities, such as shaking or banging objects, help them to understand they have an effect on the world. Your baby loves to touch, grasp and 'make things happen'. Listens carefully when you speak, and tries to talk back using babbling sounds.Uses lots of different words and sounds to express different emotions.Experiments with and copies different sounds, such as clicks and lip bubbles, as well as their word-like sounds.Will work out how to use the different sounds by noticing how you respond to them.Might say 'mama' because they can, rather than because they understand the meaning of the word.Probably puts a vowel and a consonant together, as in 'mum' or 'bubbub'.While your baby has been cooing and babbling for many weeks, their sounds now take on a closer resemblance to real words. Make sounds themselves, not only verbally but by banging objects together.Turn towards familiar sounds and voices.See a drop below them and understand that it is scary (by nine months).Develop a perception of depth and, therefore, be afraid of heights and falling.Focus on small objects, since their eye muscles will be working well.Find their feet, play with them and put them in their mouth.Start to move while on their tummy, first 'commando' style (pulling along on the arms) and then crawling on all fours.Sit alone for a few moments when you put them into a sitting position and then, later, manage to sit alone without toppling over.Roll over, from front to back and back to front.Is learning they can swallow some bits of the world (such as food) but not others (such as their teddy bear).Īt some time during these four months, your baby will be able to:.May find different food textures strange at first.Finds it hard to work out the eating action because they are used to sucking, so keeping the food inside their mouth can be a challenge.Will start to take some mashed solids around this time and, later, some soft finger foods such as toast (under your supervision).Their lips and tongue are the most sensitive parts of their body and give them lots of information about shape, texture and taste. Your baby will put everything into their mouth. ![]() Enjoyment of being talked to and played with, since this is a very sociable age.The ability to recognise the important, familiar people in their world (which also makes them sensitive to strangers).Desires of their own - for example, wanting to be picked up or given a particular toy.Other developmental characteristics include: They begin to recognise and identify different feelings and sensations - for example, what 'hungry' or 'lonely' feels like. Your baby's 'insides' feel more organised to them. They start to understand you are separate from them, and may worry when they can't see or feel you nearby. They no longer experience floating in a sea of feelings and needs, where the outside and the inside are all mixed together. By six to nine months of age, your baby begins to realise they are a separate person surrounded by their own skin.
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