Supporting Your baby's Growth with Engaging Activities and Expert Insights
Has your baby taken their first step already? Congratulations you have a toddler! If they haven’t, don’t worry they are going to be walking on their two feet very soon.
What to expect?
At around 11 to 12 months you will notice a lot of changes in your little one. Some of the changes are:
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May stand without support
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May take their first step
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Use their index finger and thumb to pick up objects
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Attempt to climb on the furniture
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May increase babbling
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Start saying words like “mama” and “dada”
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Can wave goodbye
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Can clap their hands
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Can turn pages of a book
Is it normal?
Concern: My baby is biting me/ my baby is biting different objects
Verdict: Yes, it is normal. Some of the reasons why babies bite are to explore the environment, to reduce the pain and discomfort while teething, to express their frustration, excitement or anger or to explore cause and effect such as what happens after I bite?
As parents, it is important for you to find out the reason why your baby is biting and addressing the needs with respective solutions such as providing a toy that is safe for chewing or a teether.
Concern: My baby is a picky eater.
Verdict: Yes, it is normal. Your baby has recently started having solid foods. It is possible for your baby to become selective of their food preferences, and prefer some kinds of foods over others. This is usually a phase as your baby is still exploring different tastes and textures.
However, providing sensory stimulation, introducing your baby to different textures and giving them options of food to choose from might be helpful.
How can you support your baby’s development?
As your baby is nearing their first birthday, they have become more active, mobile, curious and aware of themselves as well as their environment. They have come so far already, and you as a parent have done such a great job. But there is so much more they are yet to achieve. Are you wondering how to support their ongoing growth and development? Don’t worry because Tinyvers is here to help you to create this healthy, safe and nurturing environment for your little one. Tinyvers has worked with a team of pediatricians, educators and many more experts from various fields to design activity kits that cater to your child’s developmental needs.
Tinyvers activity kit 6 has been designed specially for 11 to 12 month babies with developmental tools that foster exploration, visual, sensory, physical, emotional and overall development. The kit also comes with a milestone brochure, activity booklet and DIY activity cards that help you navigate your baby’s developmental journey with ease.
Let’s take a tiny peek into the developmental toys included in Tinyvers activity kit 6:
1. Stimulation mat:
Have you noticed your baby’s increased interest in picking up objects or turning the pages of a book? These activities enhance your baby’s motor skills. Stimulation mat allows your baby to have a similar experience and practice their motor skills further. The sounds produced by the mat stimulates your baby’s auditory senses, encourages them to make movements to sounds, explore cause and effect, improves grasping skills and enhances bilateral coordination.
2. Parallel stack:
You might have noticed your baby picking up things with their index finger and thumb and examining it carefully. The parallel stack allows your baby to use those grasping skills and experiment with them. It allows them to explore, examine and experiment. It also helps them in practicing their grasping skills, problem-solving skills and improving their hand-eye coordination.
3. Sensory pouch:
Exploring different shapes, sizes and textures promotes brain development in babies. The sensory pouch is a great way to allow your baby to explore different kinds of shapes and textures. It is a fun way for your baby to hide their toys and then experience the joy of rediscovering them.
4. Pull and vanish:
Sometimes babies tend to use one side of their body more than the other side. However, using both sides of the body simultaneously also known as bilateral coordination is important to perform everyday tasks such as eating, dressing, typing and writing. You can use pull and vanish toy to encourage your baby to use both their hands improving their bilateral coordination. It also helps in improving their hand eye coordination and fine motor skills.
5. Circle puzzle:
Babies at this stage love opening and closing lids. The circle puzzle is a great way to let them explore and experiment with it. The different sizes of the circles increase the complexity of the puzzle making it more exciting for your little one. Your baby can develop skills such as spatial awareness, size discrimination and visual discrimination while having fun.
6. Flashcard vehicles and flowers:
Your baby can understand more than they speak. Therefore, introducing them to various things early on really helps them to build a vast vocabulary and develop language skills. The things that move or are colourful are more likely to attract your baby’s attention. Vehicles and flower flashcards can come in handy to introduce them to various vehicles and flowers so that they can identify them efficiently when they grow older.
7. Lopa’s first year:
As your baby is nearing their first birthday, Lopa’s first year is the book you should read to them. Over the past 11-12 months, they have gone through a lot of changes. The book talks about all the changes that Lopa has gone through within her first year. It helps your baby to relate to the character, build vocabulary and develop language and communication skills.
Your baby has made a lot of progress in the past year and this would never be possible without your love and support. Congratulations! You have done a wonderful job encouraging your baby to transition wonderfully from infancy to toddlerhood.
At this stage, providing your baby with developmental toys such as stimulation mat, parallel stack, sensory pouch, pull and vanish, circle puzzles, vehicles and flower flashcards and books such as Lopa’s First Year helps your baby to transition into toddlerhood even more smoothly. Your continuous love and support help your baby grow.