What to do when a child is 5 months old?

If your child is 5 months old, his development continues, and already in a multifaceted manner, and not only in the physiological field. The first sound combinations, active communication with parents through facial expressions and gestures, short ten-minute independent games, a well-developed grasping reflex, the ability to scatter rattles and the desire to break the book you like - that's far from a complete list of skills and abilities that a five-month-old kid gets. Mom and Dad have to come to terms with the research impulse of the baby and in any case not to stop it. The more curious and active the child will be at this age, the faster and better will be his intellectual and mental development.

Parameters of improving the skills and abilities of the baby can be divided into physical, food, cognitive, emotional, verbal and sensory.

To the child of 5 months, development physical:

• Develops the motor skills of the hands, the kid is able to hold the object in each handle.
• The kid flips well from the tummy to the back.
• The kid can rest with legs and stand with the support and help of parents (do not get carried away with this exercise, the back, the child's spine are not yet ready for long vertical loads).
• The child holds the back and head well when taken in his arms.
• The kid can sit with support from two sides (parents support him by the handles, cover with pillows).
• The child can independently bend and unbend the legs, lying on his back (as if doing sports exercises such as "bicycle").
• The kid can crouch, danced standing, when his parents support him.

Food development of a five-month-old baby:

• Under the condition of breastfeeding, which remains preferable, the baby shows an active interest in other products, especially those that enter the adult menu. He constantly tries to grab any product that is nearby.
• The kid is fascinated by a new way of eating - the spoon with which the lure is made. The child tries to grab it, hold it in the handle.

An approximate scheme of diet and regimen for a five-month-old baby is as follows:

Morning, 6.00	Mother's milk or milk formula	170-180 ml
Morning, 10.00	Porridge on milk	40-50 g
	Curd	25-30 grams
	Juice	20-25 ml
Day, 2 pm	Mother's milk or mixture	120-140 ml
	Puree from fruit	30-40 grams
Evening, 6 pm	Puree from boiled vegetables	90-100 g
	Yolk of boiled egg	1/5
	Juice	15-20 ml
Evening, 22.00	Mother's milk or milk formula	170-180 ml

A five-month-old baby needs a little more diapers, since the period between how he peeds is shortened due to active daytime wakefulness and a change in the nutritional regimen. The child can urinate every 30-40 minutes.

To the child of 5 months, development cognitive

• The baby wakes up interest in the surrounding environment, objects and people. 
• The baby recognizes familiar faces, objects, reacts to them with a smile. 
• The kid can prick up his ears and even be afraid of unfamiliar sounds, bright objects, the appearance of strangers. 
• The child is well-oriented within a familiar room, knows where the door is, through which the mother or father enters, knows the sources of sounds and light. 
• The kid can independently change a position and positions of a body, turning over on a tummy and again on a back. He can try to crawl to get closer to the desired object of interest to him. 
• The karapuza has developed grasping reflexes, he equally has both right and left handles, when he holds a toy., Knows how to shift it from one hand to another. 
• The baby begins to taste everything. Toys are the first objects of research. 
• The kid knows how to give preference to a favorite rattle, a toy, looking for it with his eyes, enough and studying with enthusiasm. 
• A child can knock with one toy on another, sounds and movements give him joy. 
• The child reacts to bright colors, color pictures, images. 
• The baby is able to distinguish between voices and differentiate them. He emotionally reacts to the voice of his mother, a familiar song or rhyme.

To the child of 5 months, emotional and social development

• The child gradually develops the surrounding world through acquaintance with parts of the body, both his own and the body parts of his mother, father. He touches his nose, pulls his mother by the hair, looks with interest at his father's hands and so on. 
• The kid continues to study his own body, with the help of his own hands - he touches his head, touches his ears, eyes, pulls a leg into his mouth. 
• The kid can contagiously laugh, sometimes knowingly indulge, causing the parents' delight. He tries to hug and even imitates a kiss, pressing his mouth against his mother's cheek. 
• A kid can express his discontent and resentment, not only with the help of crying, as before, but with grimaces, facial expressions and exclamations. 
• The child gently reacts to unfamiliar faces, hides and cuddles to his mother when an extraneous person appears in the room. 
• The child seems to understand the discontent of the parents and can cry in response to too loud a voice. Also the kid reacts to family internal quarrels, therefore parents should be correct and benevolent in the presence of a small member of the family. 
• The child learns mom, dad, native people, smiling at them, or turning their heads. He can also look at familiar objects - photos, pictures, clocks and so on.

To the child of 5 months, development of speech

• The child is still babbling, however, the pronunciation of syllables slips in his speech. 
• The baby practically accompanies each movement with "walking". 
• A child can distinguish between sounds produced by different animals - the mewing of a cat, barking a dog and so on. 
• The kid can call his mother with a kind of exclamations, sound signals that he wants to eat, drink or play. 
• The child develops a passive vocabulary when he does not pronounce words, but only tries to remember the verbal designation of objects, actions, events. 
• The kid tries to replace the speech with gestures and facial expressions, sometimes with specific sounds in the form of growling or coughing.

If a child is 5 months old, development continues, the baby becomes more initiative and active, requires much more attention and communication. From parents now it is required not only to provide normal and high-quality food, hygienic care and walks, but also to give the small researcher a field of activity, to give the opportunity to study colorful pictures, bright, developing toys. No less important is daily communication with the baby and joint games, which bring joy not only to the youngster, but to the parents themselves.