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GROWTH AND NORMAL DEVELOPMENT. THE CHILD OF EIGHT MONTHS
DEVELOPMENT GUIDES PRACTICE TO CONSULT

DEVELOPMENT

About eight months, the children begin showing fear towards the strangers, up to the point for that they start weeping before a person that they have never seen, and his anxiety only calms down if his mother takes it in arms.

Further on, the anxiety occurs rarely trasformar in curiosity and then in possibility of friendship with the strangers.

At the age of eight months, it crawls, fights on the furniture to get up and to remain in foot, resting on them. It babbles for everything high and repeats the syllables. It knows the dimensions of the objects and amuses itself putting them inside and out of a container. If you hide a toy, it amuses itself looking for it. If he does not want anything that you are offering him, it pushes it back with decision.

FOR WHAT DOES ONE WAIT AT THIS AGE?

  • Feel alone and enclosed it remains seated during a few minutes.

  • Supported in position erecta, it moves a foot after other as to walk.

  • It begins to crawl to cats, alternating the arms and pushing the legs symmetrically.

  • It supports, at the same time, two buckets in the hands, and amuses itself striking the objects one against other.

  • He observes during a few seconds the images of the television.

  • It is he who understands "not".

  • He recognizes the arrangements for the walk and gets excited.

  • It pronounces separated isolated syllables. It imitates some syllable pronounced by his mother.

It is necessary to bear in mind whenever rigid rules do not exist to reach the different stages, a term of one or two months is not patolólogico by no means, with a proviso that the child answers with expressiveness to the stimuli that are given him.

PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR THE AGE OF EIGHT MONTHS

  • The "crawling" of the baby allows him to explore the whole house, therefore it is necessary to do a meticulous review to leave out of his scope any object or substance that could damage it.

  • There must be protected the children of everything related to captures of current and electrical devices.

  • Support the covering, plastic bags and balloons far from the scope of the baby.

  • Do not stop without attention to the baby in bathtub.

  • At the age of 8 months teeth keep on appearing. There can be an inconvenience and drools very much (to See Teething).

  • He can already eat of everything, according to the following Scheme of food Introduction.

Scheme of food Introduction

AGE

FOOD

CONSISTENCY

4-6 months

Maternal milk or formula of beginning
Fruits
Vegetables
Purées
Cereals without gluten (corn, rice, tapioca)

Gatecrashers

6-9 months

The previous food more:
Maternal milk or formula of pursuit.
Cereals with and without gluten
Chicken, veal
Pasta soup
Omelettes, bread
Fruit juices
Leguminous plants (Jewish women, lentils, etc.)
(Cooked) egg yolk
Turkey ham

Batters
Without tippling

9-11 months

The previous food more:
Yoghourt
Cheeses
Ham

Batters

12 months

The previous food more:
Whole milk of cow or milk of growth
Entire egg
Fish
Gradual incorporation to the familiar diet

Cut or crumbled.

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