Finally, 5 months of a new life behind, aheadthe first significant half-year boundary. What changes have occurred to the child during these 5 months? Now your little one is not as helpless as he was born. A conscious look, recognition of people close to him, the first attempts to move to your favorite toys. The most important thing that a child should be able to do in 5 months is to say something that reminds the very first and the main word - "mother". Most likely, he will pronounce it when he wants, that they pay attention to him, complain, call for help. However, the focus on the most dear and close friend, his mother, makes the utterance of this word almost meaningful.
Baby in 5 months begins to babble, tryingsay the simplest syllables "ba", "ma", "yes", "pa". In a good mood, during the period of revival, he pleases his simple grandmothers and grandmothers, and moms, and dads, and grandfathers, each of whom hopes that these first little words are addressed to him.
A child with pleasure communicates with adults inthis period, not without reason the most attractive for him look poteshki in the form of dialogues, questions and answers. If you sing regularly with him, then soon the kid himself will start trying to sound sounds, as if answering questions from them.
What a child should be able to do in 5 months isthe first skills of recognizing people and separating oneself from others. Strange people cause suspicion, and if, moreover, an unfamiliar person approaches the baby, when there is no mother nearby, it can cause severe anxiety crumbs.
Acquaintance with new people should bea person who is unfamiliar to the baby, no matter how close he may seem to his mother, to take the child in his arms, until he passes the rite of acquaintance: he touches it, looks at it, makes sure that the stranger does not harbor danger.
In general, the five-month-old kid is actively engageddivision of the world into "one's own" and "another's". And at this point, parents should closely follow the reaction and manifestations of the child's interest, telling him what a new subject or person is, as it is called. The kid has already learned to attract attention. In addition to crying, he is able to evoke the tenderness of adults when he begins to pull his hands to them, "walk" and smile. The laughter of a loved one can provoke a reaction from the baby.
Of the most important actions that a child should be able to do in 5 months, one should note the skill of conscious control of the movements of the hands, before looking at them.
The kid gradually gets used to independence - he is already able to occupy himself an interesting toy, examining, shaking, studying it by touch.
An important of what a child should be able to do in 5months, is also the grasping of objects. He likes to grab everything, draw to him, shove it into his mouth, swing, throw everything that is nearby, which causes interest. Of particular interest in him are the hair of a loved one, he grabs them, pulls them in his mouth, starts pulling in different directions, finding that process fascinating.
At this age, acquaintance with new objectsmainly through the mouth. The kid sees a new object, pulls his hands to him, grabs and tries to shove it into his mouth to bite, suck, etc. It is important to observe precautions, not allowing him to take dirty objects into his mouth or those that are capable of causing injury.
On the issue of sitting a child at this agethere is no definite answer. The fact is that it is still quite early to sit still, but some babies, starting from 3-4 months old, try to sit on their own, demand that they give it a vertical position, and by the age of 5 months they are able to rely on their hands, lying on his side, and sit down. If you try to lay the baby, he begins to resent and demands to return him to a position that he was able to master independently. Therefore, some specialists, seeing at the control visit that the five-month-old crumb himself begins to sit down, condescendingly look at similar plantings at this age.
A lot of discoveries are done by a baby in 5 months. The important cases that a child should be able to do in 5 months are:
- viewing of pictures;
- walking and babbling;
- grasping and drawing objects;
- a division into "one's own" and "another's";
- wariness to strangers;
- The ability to occupy yourself with a game for 5-10 minutes.
All that a child can do in 5 months will receiveits further development and continuation by half a year, bringing more and more joy to moms and dads, grandparents: the baby is growing! the baby is developing!
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