Psychomotor development of 8-month-old babies, what can the baby do?
At 8 months of age, the baby begins to be able to adopt the crawling position, which is the position necessary to start crawling. At this age it is likely that she will first attempt to crawl and later practice more elaborate crawling. However, if this situation has occurred, it will take very little to start walking.
Below we show you a calendar of development milestones for 8 months of age. However, keep in mind that this calendar is always indicative. Some babies acquire certain skills before others or develop one more quickly and another more slowly. For example, not all babies crawl, but all babies sooner or later learn to walk.
Premature babies, low birth weight babies and those who have had problems in the first days/weeks of life may progress more slowly.
Gross motor skills of the 8-month-old baby
– Body posture and movements you can do:
– He can sit alone.
– Remains seated without support.
– It rotates well on the body.
– He gets only «on all fours».
8 month old baby hands
– Play to throw objects.
– When he has an object in each hand and another is offered to him, he drops one to take the new one.
– He eats only a cookie or a cake.
Vision of the 8 month old baby
– Look for an object that has been hidden.
Social relationship of the 8 month old baby
– Reaction of strangeness (crying when the mother is out of sight or if an unfamiliar person approaches her). Cries vigorously at doctor visits.
– Play hide and seek.
– He reacts when he hears his name.
– Reacts to «No» (interrupts what he is doing).
8 month old baby language
– Repite monosílabos: «»ma-ma», «da-da», «pa-pa».
– Shouts.
Feeding an eight month old baby
During the eighth month, parents will only have to offer their baby more variety of food. If the little one has already tried chicken, then you can diversify the meat, offering rabbit, lamb, turkey… Little by little, you can add rice, legumes, and observing the interest and taste of it. At this stage, the baby can already taste pieces of meat and vegetables in the puree, as well as slices of fruit such as apple and pear, or banana. Babies will love to lick the ends of the bread.
Eight month old baby stimulation
At this stage it is very important that babies are stimulated and offered security. The safe house should be ‘dressed’ in the sockets, in the corners of the furniture, since the baby will be restless, curious, without having any perception of the dangers. The baby has more control in his hands, legs and it is an ideal stage to stimulate his crawling, his fine motor skills, as well as his legs.
The baby loves to throw objects and even some food from his plate. For him, that will be a game. At this stage, the baby can already knead, pull, open, squeeze, etc. Tower building games are great for exercising their curiosity and skills.