Babies love to stay close to the doors. Their movement is another discovery for little kinds: how can it be that the door can move, and walls, chairs, tables can not? Remember that you must open any door in your house extremely carefully in order not to hurt a baby. This is the age, when babies’ fingers, which occurred to be between a door and a wall or a floor in the most inappropriate moment, get hurt. Be careful now in order not to be sorry later!
At this age babies as a rule become the most experienced in the speed-crawling. Moving on your hands and knees you will never be able to catch up with this little creature-your baby. You will lose of no doubt! During these periods of active crawling your baby’s muscles become stronger, especially those groups of muscles, necessary for the future standing and walking skills formation. In order to be able to stand normally, your baby will not need only strong legs. The muscles of his back play one of the most important roles in this process play. Mind that every new movement, which helps your little one to raise his body a little bit higher than the previous time is the future standing training. At first it will be his raised hand, trying to fetch the arm of an arm-chair, then your baby will be stretching his whole body in that direction. These moments will repeat day after, but the time for the complete standing is only eight-nine months. So, you should not precipitate the events. There is a time for everything. Do not make any attempts to make your baby stand by yourself! Remember, that nobody likes coercion. Do not get surprised, when you make your baby of the age of eight months stand at some support that his little legs will turn into two wet spaghettis, curving in all directions and not able to keep his body at all. Let your little son or daughter reach everything by himself or by herself. Having come through a number of his own mistakes and successful attempts your baby will find his very own way of standing at first a baby is to realize that among different pieces of furniture you have at home there are some objects, which may serve as a support, and while holding on to them they would neither move nor fall. And there are some other objects, which somehow get bent or fall down if you only touch them. Such an experience will be extremely useful for your little on in the future.
First of all one hand will become stretched and it will fetch a support, the second hand is necessary to provide some kind of insurance on the floor. Then a baby can take firm stand with one of his legs and remove his body mass to one side of the body, later he includes the second side of his body into this process. And, finally the last movement to be performed is releasing the “insurance” on the floor. This chain may take up to three months sometimes. That is why you should never meddle into this standing skill development process.
At the age of eight months your baby is able to sit independently and he manages to do it quite well, but he can not sit down from the lying position without any assistance yet. This sitting position becomes favourite during the playtime, but it is not firm so fat, and a baby can fall down. You should mind it and provide him some “insurance”, if your baby mostly plays on the coach. You may also get a special baby chair and place your little baby in it, fastening him with a special belt, you may also put your baby in the arm-chair, and he will receive much pleasure, communicating with the members of his family in such a way.
Fetching things in a tongs’ way between the thumb and the middle finger becomes more perfect. Now a baby is able to place something from one hand into another, and even to crawl with a toy being in his hands. It is quite a great success, because these are features, which make a human being different from monkeys.
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