Baby development at 9 months

By nine months, your baby has changed dramatically. This is not the clumsy fat man that he was recently. Now the baby is mobile, curious and spends a lot of time on the floor. Mom’s hands more and more often remain free, now it’s enough for her at times to just keep the crumbs in sight, while fully communicating with him. The development of a child at 9 months is mainly aimed at improving the bone and muscle apparatus. The beginning of the third trimester is the time of physical and psychological preparation of the child's body for upright posture.

What's new in physical development

Due to the increase in motor activity, a child at 9 months of age begins to gain less than before. For the ninth month, it can add from 300 to 550 g and grow by 1 - 2 cm. By the end of the month, children weigh 8.5 - 9.5 kg (± 1 kg), height 69.5 - 72.5 cm (± 3 cm).

What a child can do at 9 months

1. The baby at nine months old sits down and can easily sit up to 10 minutes. From a sitting position he can reach and take a toy.
2. He independently stands at the support, can take several small steps, goes behind the chair (holding the back of the chair, moves it and follows it). In the walker can stay without getting tired for up to 10 minutes, jumps and crouches in them.
3. The baby is trying to crawl. Getting on all fours is still difficult, but many children can crawl in a plastopod. But if the crumbs do not succeed, do not worry, just help him learn the skill.
4. A child of 9 months is increasingly using pinching - takes an object with two or three fingers, can pick up even crumbs. Fine motor activity is actively developing, he sticks his fingers wherever possible, he tries to touch everything. Able to tear paper to shreds.
5. He confidently holds objects in his hands: pieces of food, a cup, but it’s still difficult for him to unclench his fingers, so if he grabbed a crumb for something, then picking it up is extremely difficult. If you try to take away an object from the child, then he will push away your hand and turn away.
6. In a child at the age of 9 months, teeth continue or begin to grow with all the phenomena accompanying this (moodiness, salivation, temperature 37). Do not worry, if there are no teeth yet, normally they can appear later and grow several at once.

We read in detail: what a baby can do at 9 months

What's new in psychological development

1. The child’s speech at nine months continues to develop at a rapid pace: he constantly repeats syllables, begins to bind them into short words (dad, mom, woman) and associates them with objects. The child changes intonation during the "conversation".
2. He knows his name, answers him with a complex of animation: he turns his head, smiles.
3. The emotions of a child at 9 months become certain: he rejoices or laughs when he is mixed, does not hide resentment and anger when he is angry.
4. He points with his finger not only at those objects that he would like to get, but also where he would like to climb: he asks to open a cabinet, a refrigerator, to get something from his pocket.
5. He understands simple requests: "take it," "come here." He begins to master gestures: nods his head - “no” or “yes”.
6. The child helps to dress himself: sticks into the sleeves of the handle, pulls his leg in his trouser leg. He can take off his hat. Holds a cup with both hands, eats with fingers.
7. Playing hide and seek, understands where you are, even if you are not visible. Can find by voice or rustle.
8. Most often, he uses toys for other purposes: he loves to strike one against the other, invest in each other, throw and watch how he falls.

9 month baby development test

• The baby should be able to sit without support, try to get up, try to crawl behind the toy, hold the cup in two hands;
• Lying on the tummy should reach for the toy and try to crawl;
• In the sitting position, the child should be able to turn and take the object from the side or slightly behind;
• Imitates your gestures and actions: show how to drum with sticks, the child should be able to repeat;
• When you try to take away a toy, the child should be able to interfere with this: hold tight, pull over;
• In the child’s speech, repeating syllables must be present;
• Must distinguish between loved ones and strangers, respond to your name.

Lack of any of the above skills should alert you. Be sure to consult with a pediatrician about this.

How to feed a baby at 9 months

Continue to breastfeed or mix and feed new foods.

Breast milk (mixture) should be 1 \ 4 of the baby’s daily diet at 9 months. If you started feed at 6 months, then you have replaced three breastfeeds and in the diet of the crumbs all the main products are present:

vegetable 150-180 g and fruit puree 50 - 80 g, cereal up to 180 g, meat 50 g, yolk 1 \ 2 twice a week, kefir and cottage cheese 30 - 40 g, cracker and wheat bread 5 g each, vegetable oil and creamy 5 g each, juice (fruit or vegetable) up to 80 g. Cottage cheese can be given with kefir in the evening feeding. In the ninth month, start injecting fish of low-fat varieties of about 50 g once a week, as well as steamed meatballs. Mashed potatoes can now be made from several vegetables with the addition of herbs. Porridge can be from a mixture of cereals, including gluten (oat, wheat), with good tolerance. It is better not to give semolina up to 1 year, as it is difficult to digest.

Mode: sleep and wakefulness

The child sleeps 2 times during the day for 2 hours, and at night - up to 10 hours. By this age, the regime of daytime sleep may change somewhat: since at night the baby began to sleep longer and wake up later, daytime sleep may shift somewhat. But many babies continue to sleep and play in the same mode.

Breasts also wake up at night and ask for breasts, but not out of hunger, but because of the psychological need for proximity to their mother. Most likely, it will be so, while you do not wean from the chest.

At this age, babies have trouble sleeping. This is due to the fact that children can already deliberately stretch their waking hours as they like. They begin to understand that there is day, and there is night, and at night everyone sleeps, and during the day they play. Therefore, accustom the child to the regime, make sure that he is not overworked by games.

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How to help your child grow

Even if it’s hard for you, continue to carry the baby in your arms. Before the baby goes, it is necessary for proper mental development.

Continue to develop speech: talk with the baby, read picture books. Give preference to little poems and nursery rhymes in which words are repeated. Discuss the picture with the child, ask him to find something on it and show with his finger. Use theme cards with pictures. Make every effort so that the baby learns to crawl.

• Make a roller out of the blanket and stick it under the baby’s chest. Raising the baby by the ends of the blanket, help him crawl to the toy;
• When a child tries to crawl, create support for its legs for one leg, then for another. So he will quickly learn the technique of cross crawling;
• If the baby is already able to crawl, buy him a house with a tunnel. The child will surely be delighted, crawling from the house to the tunnel and back, and finding various surprises there. You can make the tunnel yourself out of cardboard boxes;
• Show the peanut how to build a tower of cubes or put together a pyramid. And although the baby himself will not be able to repeat this, he will be very interested to observe how you do it. Perhaps he will try to put one die on another or put a ring on his stick - this is also a step towards a new one. Let the crumbs destroy the tower that you built and make another - let it break. At this age, kids like to watch something fall, crumble. Ask him to put the cubes in a box after the tower has shattered;
• It's time to get acquainted with toilet paper! Show the child how she unwinds. He will gladly begin to crumple, tear and scatter pieces of paper - a good workout for the fingers. You can also stick a piece of adhesive tape to a child’s palm, the baby will have fun tearing it away from himself;
• Even if you have a boy, buy him a doll. The more the toy will look like a real child, the better. Place a baby doll in front of your child and show where the nose, eyes, mouth and everything else are. Then ask them to show where and what the doll has, and where the child;
• Continue playing in the bathroom: show your baby how to pour some water from one glass to another;
• Pour the cereal into a bowl and bury small toys in it. Invite the child to find them in the croup with his hand;
• Open a chest for the child with small items from different materials, you can put there: a piece of linoleum, shreds of different fabrics (silk, flannel, wool), cardboard, a cork from a bottle, a sponge, in general, everything that is safe. Let the baby know the tactile sensations;
• Continue to play "Ladushki", include children's songs or funny music, clap your hands together under it;
• At 9 months, the child can crawl and sit, so you can complicate many exercises for him, introduce gymnastic equipment into the classes: ball, wooden stick, plastic rings.

For a child in the ninth month, communication in the game is very important.

Make sure that in the kitchen and in the rooms there is a set of items that you can give your baby for games. You yourself can come up with activities for the child, perhaps he will tell you by his actions what he would like to play. Let the little one start the game himself, so you will teach him independence and teach him how to make decisions.

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