Your 8 month old baby now starts experiment everything around and will try to explore a new world!
The little one during the 8th month not only crawl around everywhere, but also try to explore everything. Crawling, moving around and cruising are the milestones of the baby development in its 8th month. They get more curious about the things around and the developed senses induce them to experiment to develop an understanding and awareness about the environment. This is one of the important phases in the baby’s development and growth, where the moms can inculcate all those necessary practices like practicing a routine for eating, sleeping, playing, etc. Similarly, now, your baby is used to taking solid foods and explores various flavors.
The 8th month development of the baby is all about developing and inculcating practices, new routines etc. Now, let us see about the baby development in the 8th month.
Physical Growth and Development:
Now, your baby in the eighth month has a lot of strength and power. The little one is able to move around the home with the strength. The babies will now try to stand by themselves holding on to furniture or taking a wall support.
While a majority of the babies start crawling around, don’t worry if your baby is not moving around. For a few babies, it may take a month or a few more weeks to achieve this milestone development. There are few babies who could skip this development phase and surprise the parent by walking without crawling. The stronger bones and muscles enable the baby to grasp even a small object from the floor.
Besides, crawling and standing with support, the baby now with the developed senses can pick the desired toys from a box of toys, reach to a different place to pick up the toys, express the desire to have a particular toy, etc. Besides they also play with the toys, join the blocks together, spin the balls, etc.
Sleeping Pattern:
The baby sleeping time gets reduced to 12 – 14 hours a day, split into two short naps during the day and one long quality sleep during the night. During the day time, the babies in the eighth month will take a very short nap, which ranges from 20 minutes to a maximum of 2 hours. However, the little one now will get quality sleep of minimum of 8 hours during the night. This is the right time to create a sleeping routine and practice it. A sleeping routine make your little one more healthy and disciplined too!
Communication:
Now the babies will make interesting sounds and babbles all the time. Besides, with the developed senses, the baby in its eighth month can understand all you say to her and even your gestures. For instance, Hi, bye bye, wake up, come, laugh, clap, etc.
The baby has a few anxiety concerns due to separation. Since your eight month old little on is intelligent enough to understand everything, you can set up routines to help your baby and yourself. Don’t worry if you are a working mom. Your baby will cry no more than a few minutes, so don’t panic about it. Creating bed time, nap time, eating routines make things easier and comfortable.
You should have already childproofed your home. If not, do it now, as any time your baby grows quickly and a few things can be reached by the little one.
Feed a variety of foods from various sources. You can even ask the little one to pick the food with its little fingers and teach the little one to eat.
