Sleep and wakefulness of the child in 7-9 months
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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- How does the child sleep?
In the seventh month of life, the child's dream becomes more prolonged. The duration of sleep depends on the regime of the day, the emotionality of the child and the surrounding noise. At this age, sometimes a little earlier, the child can sleep, kneeling and lying on the bed. Do not try to lay it on the barrel or on the back. This pose for children is just as natural as any other. Usually at seven months the baby sleeps two or three times during the day.
A child's sleep largely determines not only his health, but also the resistance and stability of the organism, its adaptation and adaptability to the conditions of life.
The need for sleep varies from child to child. It depends on the nature of the child, on the organization of his wakefulness. There is a fairly clear link between the child's age and the length of his sleep. At the age of nine months, a child usually sleeps for about two-thirds of a day. In this case, more mobile children sleep twice a day. The period of wakefulness is prolonged and a healthy child can not sleep three or four hours in a row without detriment to one's well-being. Naturally, you should change the regime of the day of a nine-month-old child. As a rule, this regime will last about one and a half years.
- What is the child playing?
Since toys and the game itself is a learning process, at the age of seven months it is necessary to select toys for the child, who will develop certain targeted actions. For example: open - close, deposit - remove, push - push, swing, roll, etc. At this age the child is attracted to clockwork toys or toys that produce sounds other than rattles. Objects of kitchen utensils can be very useful, because the child very much wants to imitate adults.
The child is already beginning to understand that a cube or an apple, hidden under a handkerchief, has not disappeared anywhere. He tears off his handkerchief and looks at you joyfully: "Here is an apple!". You can cover your head with a towel, and the child will take it off you. Speak to him at the same time: "Ku-ku!". You will see: your baby will be happy!
If you are reading a book to a child or playing with it, take your favorite bear or doll to your company. The presence of toys in the future will be associated with the fact that together with the child you are. And in the future this will allow you to leave the child with his "friend" for a while, while you leave the room. The toy can also "help" the child to fall asleep.
In seven to nine months the child loves to play "sheep - buns", "goat horned". The fact is that any physical contact with an adult (especially mom and dad) reduces the distance in communication and serves the child as the highest form of expression of acceptance of one person by another. Therefore, he gently quietly leans against your forehead under your "sheep - ram - sheep - buns!". When you touch his breast and tummy with the fingertips, saying: "There is a goat horned for small children ...", and at the end of the rhyme - "... I care, I care!", He shiver and is afraid of a goat, but laughs and is just happy !!
Very useful for the game will be colored books with large pictures - berries, flowers, animals, machines.
The child already distinguishes not only the color and shape of objects, but also their dimensions. So he already needs to buy a pyramid and teach him to collect it. The baby has an interest in toys in the hands of adults or other children. He throws his toy and reaches out to a stranger.
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