The approximate daily routine for a child of 7 months is usually not particularly strict, since it is at this age that his actively developing body selects for itself the most physiological options for life.The mother of a 7-month-old baby should be ready for an unexpected and quite spontaneous restructuring of the usual daily routine. As a rule, this is associated with a decrease in the duration of daytime sleep and a greater activity of the baby during wakefulness.
Estimated daily schedule
- 6:00-8:30 The period of awakening, morning meal, washing procedures and tempering air baths.
- 8:30-10:00 Morning dream.
- 10:00-12:00 The time of the second meal and active wakefulness with the obligatory performance of gymnastics and relaxing massage.
- 12:00-14:00 Developmental walk in the fresh air, gradually turning into a dream.
- 14:00-16:00 The next feeding of the baby and active cognitive leisure, consisting of an alternation of developmental games and gymnastic exercises.
- 16:00-18:00 The second walk, a dream in the fresh air.
- 18:00-21:30 The fourth feeding of the crumbs, the time of communication with family members, the evening bathing procedure.
- 21:30-22:00 Evening meal.
- 22:00-6:00 Night sleep.
A few additional options with the daily routine (you will already find the best option considering the features of your crumbs):
The proposed table is just an example of a rational alternation of regimen moments (feeding, periods of sleep, walking, exercise and hygiene procedures) and should in no way be taken as an instruction requiring strict adherence to each item.
An indicator of the success of any daily routine is the excellent health of the crumbs. If he eats with appetite, plays with pleasure, and without problems, without tantrums, falls asleep in the hours allotted for this, then the regime corresponds to all his physiological needs.
About sleep mode
7 months is an age that clearly demonstrates how individual the body of each child is. One seven-month crumb still needs three fairly long (1.5-2 hours) periods of daytime sleep, and the other is already physiologically ready for his daytime rest to become biphasic.
Such children can be given the opportunity to relax in the morning (from 11-00 to 12-30) and evening (from 16-00 to 17-30) hours. It is easy to calculate that the total duration of sleep in some babies is thirteen hours (4.5 in the afternoon and 8.5 at night), while in others it is only eleven. In the latter case, a significant moment comes in the life of a 7-month-old baby: the duration of periods of active wakefulness in them begins to prevail over the duration of periods of sleep.
Once again we repeat: if the baby is active enough and in a good mood, mother should not worry and try to lay him in accordance with the previous schedule. Reducing daytime sleep means only one thing: a grown child just needs a new daily routine.
There is another option for organizing sleep, which some 7-month-old crumbs choose for themselves: they prefer to sleep for 2-3 hours while walking in the fresh air, and rest in the morning and evening for no more than an hour. Within a month, the hourly intervals of daytime rest will be reduced to forty minutes.
About walks
In the daily routine of a 7-month-old baby, time must be allocated at least for two walks in the fresh air. They are unusually fruitful for both his physical and intellectual development.
Tiny, well aware of the existence of a huge world outside the walls of the apartment, is looking forward to receiving many new experiences. He enjoys meeting with people, animals, birds, attentively listens to mom’s comments accompanying these meetings, reacts to them with active walks, lively facial expressions, waving handles.
During a walk with the child, the mother must take care to comply with safety rules: an actively moving baby, able to fall out of the stroller, must be securely fastened. Care should also be taken to protect the delicate skin of the crumbs from exposure to bright sunlight.
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About the feeding schedule
Feeding seven-month-old babies continues to remain five-fold, and the intervals between feedings should be at least four hours. Some babies still continue to wake up at night to eat a little (the number of such awakenings can be from one to three).
At 7 months, both infants and artisans were already well adapted to complementary foods: cereals, vegetable and fruit soups and mashed potatoes, baby curds and all kinds of juices became full participants in their daily diet. The only difference in their diet is that three times a day, infants continue to receive their mother’s milk, and artificers - a bottle of milk formula (at least twice a day).
Most young mothers often wonder about which dishes are more beneficial for the child: factory-made or self-made? If the mother is confident in the complete safety of vegetables and fruits that she will use to make soups and mashed potatoes (this is possible only if they are grown in her garden), then home-made food should be preferred. If there is no such confidence, it is better to give the child juices and mashed potatoes from purchased jars.
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If the mother is going to feed the baby with the porridge of her own preparation, she must grind the groats to the state of flour, using a blender or coffee grinder. In their absence, it is better to purchase a factory semi-finished product intended for baby food.
I would like to pay special attention to the introduction of cottage cheese in the diet of a seven-month-old baby. It should be only childish, adapted for the body with a not completely formed gastrointestinal tract. Its main difference from an adult product is a very low acidity and a more delicate texture.
All these qualities are possessed by a children's cottage cheese cooked in the dairy kitchen or a factory specializing in the production of children's products. The closed method of production carried out there eliminates pathogens from entering the product. It is better to acquaint the baby with the curd by introducing it into the fruit puree, starting with one teaspoon and gradually bringing it to three or four.
The best time to meet crumbs with new products is daylight hours. Before daytime sleep, it is better to give the child a rich sweet gruel: after eating well, the baby will sleep much longer and stronger. This moment applies to infants and artificial.
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If the child is hungry a little earlier than prescribed by the established daily routine, the mother may depart a little from him: 15-20 minutes do not solve anything. In the opposite situation, when the baby refuses food, you should not feed him by force. The reason for the refusal may be due to the fact that:
- the child did not like the taste or smell of the proposed product;
- the baby is scared by the too persistent behavior of an adult, forcing him to eat;
- the baby is completely full of breast milk.
How to entertain a child
A child of 7 months is an active explorer of the surrounding space, trying all the objects and to taste and touch. Many babies of this age not only crawl perfectly, but also try to stand on their feet, and especially developed ones are already confidently doing their first steps. Such activity requires very vigilance from parents: knowing that the inquisitive baby drags everything in his mouth, they must remove all small objects (needles, beads, coins, pins) from his way.
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The following activities will be useful for the successful intellectual development of a seven-month-old baby:
- Reading books and viewing vivid illustrations (pages in books should be made of thick cardboard).
- Rhymes with repeating sounds are useful for developing a baby’s speech. Remembering constantly repeating sound combinations, the baby will begin to play them on their own.
- A 7-month-old baby knows and distinguishes his favorite toys well. Having laid out 4-5 items in front of him, you can ask to find the right one among them. For each successful fulfillment of your request, the baby must be praised.
- Introducing the baby with the shape and size of objects, it is very useful to use a pyramid. Mom must first collect it, stringing the rings in a decreasing order of size, commenting on their actions. After this, it is necessary to provide the crumb with the opportunity to disassemble the assembled pyramid, making it an active participant in the gameplay.
- You can buy several dynamic toys for your child: a tumbler, a yule or one of the modern toys that rotate and new pictures appear. Observation of their movement contributes to the development of logical thinking of the baby.
- To develop the search skills of the crumbs, actively crawling around the apartment, you can use the game "Hide and Seek". First, a bright toy is hidden before his eyes and asked to find it. When the baby is interested in the process, you need to hide the toy again, but already stealthily from it, not forgetting to display part of it: this will facilitate the search and delight the baby. At the next stage, the mother can hide herself so that the baby can find her by voice.
- Developing fine motor skills of the pens, you can give the baby a plastic bucket and ask him to collect scattered, for example, walnuts. An example to the beginning of the collection should set mom. The baby will be happy to join the process.
- Special beads or spirals with balls, cubes and cones strung on them serve the same purpose, which can be purchased in any department of toys.
Teaching the baby new skills, it is necessary to create an emotional, joyful atmosphere: only under this condition the baby will be happy to take part in developmental activities. The main task of developing activities with the baby is the desire to teach him how to achieve his goal.
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The importance of massage and a range of hygiene procedures
Given the extreme activity of young children, every minute making a lot of energetic movements, the mother should concentrate on massage sessions with elements of gymnastic exercises. An experienced nurse will introduce her to the technique of such massage and a range of useful physical exercises during the next preventive examination.
Complex daily hygiene procedures, still consisting of the ritual of morning washing, washing the child with the next change of diaper and evening bathing should replenish the task first teeth care baby. For this purpose, you can purchase a set of special napkins in the form of fingertips soaked in a cleaning solution. Having put a napkin on the finger, the mother carefully wipes the teeth, the surface of the tongue and the baby’s mouth after each feeding. In the absence of such napkins, mom can use a piece of bandage.
Evening bathing crumbs can now be carried out in a large bathtub, for security, laying a special mat under it (how to bathe a baby) In addition to traditional rubber toys, you can give your baby a toy watering can or bucket - manipulations with transfusion of water will not only interest the baby, but also contribute to the development of its intelligence and fine motor skills (useful bath toys).
Those who still doubt the appropriateness of subjecting the life of a 7-month-old baby to any regime should be aware that babies accustomed to a certain cycle of feeding, periods of sleep and wakefulness develop much more successfully than their peers, who behave quite randomly.
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We get it like in the second table, because we wake up at about 7 and start doing business. Then it’s afternoon sleep while walking. We try to walk longer, but it turns out only once a day, because it’s hard to walk back and forth with the stroller alone.
It was not always possible to adhere to such a regimen of the day, mainly because of sleep. He loved to prank, twirl. But we ate precisely at this time, so there were no problems with digestion. Walking must be arranged: without fresh air (from my own experience) the baby does not feel well. Of course, it is advisable to do everything according to the “schedule” so that the biological clock works correctly.
And we are 7 months after 5 days. We wake up in the interval from 7 to 8, but do not immediately rush to eat. He eats at 8.30 - 9. And we walk until 10.30, approximately. Then we go home to sleep, because it is sooo hot on the street. Until 13.00 we sleep, wake up and eat. Awake at home under the split. Somewhere c3x to 5 times the second dream. We eat at 5. Go for a walk. At 8 we prepare the bathroom and at 9 food and sleep. And at 3 nights we eat the mixture.
The article cannot be called delusional (comments of others), but it is as if written off from one specific child, and therefore it cannot be said that this is a clear plan that other mothers need to follow while caring for their child. We should not forget that all children are different, and their habits also form their own. My child, for example, eats mainly before going to bed, and sleeps more often in the first half of the day, by the evening, on the contrary, the wakeful period increases. And we adapt to the child, and not to the "schedule." And the article states that the feeding time varies up to 4 hours ... We feed more often, we have HS, and the baby can eat a lot of milk, or maybe a little.And torture him 4 hours before the next feeding in no case worth it, even if there is complementary foods. The child is hungry - we feed. I am not saying that the child should be given complete freedom in when and what he wants to do. But the schedule still needs to be adjusted to his needs (which can change a hundred times, or maybe already, not all mothers notice it), given such things as: sleep, walk / walks, developing activities for the wakeful period, massages and hardening. Time does not matter at all. And in no case should I take the timetable from the Internet as an example, being sure that this is a 100% correct version of how a child’s day should go.
Thank you for the article! I liked and helped. Since the eldest son is already 13 years old, I completely forgot that a seven-month-old baby has nutrition and sleep. The article is directly adapted to my baby. Only now, my daughter is still constantly on her chest and not so much to eat as more calm down. The pacifier does not take