All your baby needs are healthy nutrition, love and care. Give it to him and watch it grow and become a priceless treasure!

Baby Development

A baby grows rapidly in its first year, but its growth slows towards the end of the first year. Some babies can start to take their first steps at this age.

Milestones

1. Motor skills: Until this time, it can stand holding on to something. It is common to wander all over the house. You can also see it take its first steps.

1. Hand and eye coordination: It will be able to eat finger foods alone by grasping between fingers and thumbs. Its small muscles will help pick up objects like playing blocks, moving objects like toys from one hand to another, pointing at things and poking with its finger.

1. Communication skills: It will be able to understand gestures, wave goodbye when asked to say goodbye, say a few words like mom, dad, goodbye, and chat a lot.

1. Cognitive skills: As your baby moves towards its first birthday, it understands the concept of object permanence. It will become more adept at finding hidden items. It may even try to imitate you or others through observation. As its vision improves, it will be very interested in books with colorful pictures. Arrange objects and toys by color, size and shape.

Nutrition

Your baby can eat soft solid foods such as pancakes. However, be sure it takes small pieces one at a time to avoid choking. Avoid small, round foods such as peas or peanuts that can cause choking. You can also give fruits such as boiled vegetables cut into long strips, bananas, oranges, sweet limes. Be sure to core or peel fruits before giving them to your baby.

Your little explorer will lose a lot of calories as it will actively scan and explore the house. Therefore, give it fruits such as bananas, apples, pears and nutritious vegetables such as potatoes and sweet potatoes. Make sure your baby drinks enough water.

Breastfeeding is recommended up to 2 years of age. However, if you breastfeed more than 3-4 times a day, it may not want to eat solid foods.

Sleep

It can take 2 naps for 1-2 hours during the day, and sleep for 10-12 hours at night.

Care Tips

1. Now that your baby has become an expert at crawling, make sure the floors and furnishings in the home are properly cleaned and disinfected. Keep all power outlets and electrical appliances turned off.

1. Babies at this age become independent and can start to eat on their own. Avoid it taking one big bite at one time.

1. Read to your baby every day, tell stories, tell your own memories...

1. Take it to different places such as aquarium, toy museum, painting exhibition, seaside to meet new people and places.

1. Continue to stick to diet, sleep and activity routines.

Tests and Vaccines

If you have had previous vaccinations and controls, there is no special routine for this week.

Plays and Activities

Take a tray and sprinkle some flour in it. Let your little one feel with its fingers. You can even put small cars or toys inside. When it gets used to the game, you can thoroughly stimulate the texture sensations by adding water. You have to be careful not to get the flour in your baby`s eyes.

When to Apply to The Doctor?

You can consult your baby`s pediatrician if you see the following:

1. Your baby isn`t crawling, babbling, saying a few simple words like mom and dad, or holding things like a play block or toy.

1. If your baby is unable to balance while sitting or standing.

1. Baby`s legs are bent or uneven when standing.