The development of the baby at 8 months
With eight months, the baby likes to move around and investigate everything, becoming more aware of what is happening around them and acquires new strength may be strong enough to stand while holding onto a chair or sofa. In a couple of months, you must to start walking, holding on to furniture.
Most babies crawl at this age and are able to find a way to match their motor skills with their senses, so they can manipulate toys with relative ease. With this age use the pincer grip with the thumb, which is what sufficiently well developed for baby can pick up very small objects.
In the eighth month, most babies sleep an average of 13 to 14 hours a day, will do two naps a day, once in the morning and afternoon, with an average of one hour, but some babies can survive with a pair of 20-minute naps. It is now able to have a sense of object permanence and feel separation anxiety every time you leave note, but eventually disappear, roughly about two years.
Generally your baby eight months, still take breast milk, but it is time to include in the diet a variety of foods such as infant cereals, fruits and vegetables, ground meats, mashed, plus most babies this age, feel fascinated by the food on the table and less interested the bottle or breast, but it must be said that still need milk to compliment his first year at least.
The chewing skills acquired by the baby, must be sufficiently developed to allow start eating with your hands. The best foods for the little hands can eat are bananas, bread, pasta, meat cooked and cereals. Cut food into small piece, and avoid foods that are choking hazards and do not let him only at meals.
