Baby at 6 months: eating, sleeping, sitting and crawling

What changes at 6 months?

Your baby is now familiar with the world around him and the people who care for him. Also, it is now wary of new people. Know that this is normal and that the phenomenon is likely to increase in the weeks to come. Soon he won’t like being apart from you anymore. Motor level, baby acquires more and more mobility and shows enthusiasm and dynamics to turn over alone on the belly (or on the back). He is also much more awake and in conversation, especially since his tastes, with the introduction of solids, are asserting themselves. He clearly lets you know when he likes it or doesn’t like it at all!

6 month baby development: what can baby do at 6 months?

From a cognitive point of view

– Baby grasps objects well and shows great curiosity to examine them from all angles. On this subject, he is able to pass them from one hand to the other, to turn them over, showing a prehension appropriate to the size and weight of the object.

– Baby knows perfectly well how to relate a name or an appellation to an individual. He knows who is “dad” or “mom”, even “cuddly toy” or looking at the dog when his name is mentioned. He is also assimilating more and more his own first name.

– He loves more and more To say helloplay with hands, and knows how to put hands over eyes to play “I can’t see it anymore… I can see it!”

From a communicative point of view

– baby gurgles, baby babbles and produces multitude of sounds by imitation, beginning to understand the relationship between intonation and feeling. The same goes for facial expressions, he knows how to assimilate them to feelings, especially since when talking to a baby, the line is generally forced. Thus, it is not uncommon to see that if you simulate a state of sadness, baby also starts crying!

– Baby produces syllables “ma”, “ba”, “da”“, and responds with it as soon as you’ve finished talking to him. He knows when to “speak up”.

Does baby sit up at 6 months?

He’s getting better and better sat and longer and longer. He really appreciates this position because it allows him to see everything that is happening around him, to grasp and manipulate the objects around him more easily. However, don’t worry if he can’t sit still at this age, because as with walking or speaking, each baby learns and develops at his own pace!

When does baby start crawling?

As soon as baby rolls over on his stomach on his own, he will quickly understand that he can lean on his arms to raise himself a little. He will then deduce just as quickly as they can help him move, by stretching one arm and pushing on the other. The process towards walking is then launched! First, he crawls – and sometimes even backwards at first! -, then comes walking on all fours, then a sustained standing position, and finally vertical mobility. On the way to autonomy!

What is the height of a 6 month old baby, his weight?

During the 6th month, your baby continues to grow and gains an average of 600 grams. In terms of size, its growth may be slightly slowed down, but it generally measures between 62 and 68 cm. The most important thing is that his growth curve is harmonious. Every baby is different, so try not to compare him to his nursery buddies who may be taller than him!

Are there tests at the 6th month of the baby?

Your baby is in great shape. Remember that your child has an appointment every month for medical examinations at the pediatriciansince his birth up to the age of 6 months. During the monthly visit, the pediatrician will be able to perform the injections that could not have been done the previous month. Also the opportunity to check his growth, his awakening and monitor how the beginnings of food diversification. He will then be able to give you some advice on how to adapt better and allow your baby to grow up healthy. Further medical examinations will take place during the baby’s 9th month, between 12 and 13 months, then between 16 and 18 months and then, from two years.

6 months baby: the age of the first teeth?

Six months is the average age of first teeth, often the incisors. Baby may be grumpy, have red cheeks, develop a erythema buttocks and drooling more than usual. It is then possible that his nights are a little more broken up than usual. To relieve it, several solutions are available to you. Thus, apart from the classic paracetamol, you can massage the gums with your fingers. Know that you will also find in pharmacies, homeopathic gels to soothe it. But the most effective is probably theteething ring. Chewing on an object can really relieve it! Reinforce the effectiveness of this ring by placing it in the refrigerator, because the cold will anesthetize the pain. But don’t panic, dental pain is completely normal at this age, and will soon be just a bad memory!

Why is my baby crying a lot at 6 months?

The sixth month marks, for many babies, the beginning of separation anxiety. He needs the presence of his parents, whom he sees less during the day, and realizes that he is an independent being. Contact with strangers may suddenly become more difficult, and the child may also wake up again at night. It is important to verbalize and reassure him.

Baby sleep, what naps at 6 months?

If baby is eating well during the day, he is probably making full nights. It is now keyed to adult sleep with long periods of sleep at night, and much longer waking times during the day. This period may nevertheless mark the beginning of separation anxiety nightmares; Doctor Nathan advises not to intervene: “at 6 months, your baby may have more restless sleep at the end of the cycle, but this does not mean that he is really awake. The best thing is not to intervene by taking him in your arms and not putting the baby to the breast. Usually he will calm down on his own and go back to sleep.” As for naps, baby needs to take two good naps a day, one in the morning, between his morning bottle and lunch, and the other between lunch and snack time.

How much food at 6 months?

Dietary diversification continues quietly. For his sixth month, baby now has the right to two feeds a day (morning and evening) and to two real meals. It is also this month that he will begin to discover meat, fish and eggs, at the rate of ten grams at noon. Baby must also have starchy foods at each meal: cereals in the morning, rice, pasta or semolina for lunch, a cake or a mixed madeleine at snack time. The ideal is to give him his meals at the little spoon. Thus, at midday, the child eats about one hundred and ten grams of vegetables, mixed with meat and then a small pot of fruit or yogurt (special growth). You can now add fat to his meal : oil, butter or fresh cream.
At snack time, you will give him a bottle, supplemented by a small pot of fruit or yogurt (alternate with lunch). In the evening, her bottle is now prepared with second age milk.

Feeding table at 6 months, by day

Transit and baby food: what foods to give him?

The rhythm of the bottles being less sustained than during the previous months, baby drinks less. With the beginning of food diversification, it is therefore possible that his transit changes slightly and that he is constipated. If a glycerin suppository can help trigger the emission of stools, it is also important to be attentive to the solid foods offered to baby during the day. It is therefore better to avoid giving rice and carrots at lunchtime, then bananas at snack time! The ideal is toalternate with more laxative vegetables and fruits, such as green beans or oranges.

Choose from colorful toys, of all materials and all shapes. Those that produce sound and light are certainly his favorites.

Baby catches his feet, he rolls and can even start to move. At this age when the baby begins to be much more motor, Doctor Nathan then recommendsavoid deckchairs : “It can become dangerous to install baby in his bouncer. Better put it on the ground as much as possible on an awakening mat to help him develop his motor skills and avoid falls. If baby can’t yet decant or stack, he will be delighted to touch different textures and observe colors and shapes. You also have to let him put his various games in his mouth (adapted to his age!). At 6 months, babies also like stories and nursery rhymes.