Supporting Your Baby's Growth and Development with Engaging Activities and Expert recommendations
Hey! Has your baby started responding to their name being called out yet? If they haven’t, they will soon. Their understanding of self and their environment is constantly improving.
What to expect?
At around 9 to 10 months you will notice a lot of changes in your little one. Some of the changes are:
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Push to crawling position
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Sit for longer durations
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Attempt to stand up while holding onto furniture
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Start picking up objects using their index finger and thumb (Pincer grasp)
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May start responding to their name being called out
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Enjoy games like peekaboo
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May hold a cup
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May use a spoon
Is it normal?
Concern: My baby keeps throwing or dropping things repeatedly
Verdict: Yes, it is normal. Your baby learns about the world and them by exploring and experimenting. Throwing or dropping objects helps them understand the cause and effect of the action. It also helps them understand the reactions of people around them. Holding the object and throwing or dropping it allows them to enhance their fine motor skills, gross motor skills and hand- eye coordination.
Ensure your baby’s safety by giving them safe objects to explore and keeping unsafe objects out of their reach.
Concern: My baby is chewing on objects and drooling excessively
Verdict: Yes, it is normal. Excessive chewing and drooling happen mostly when your baby is teething. Chewing on objects helps to soothe some pain and so there is an increase in this behaviour. Offering your baby a wooden teether can help to lessen their discomfort. Keep unsafe objects out of your baby’s reach.
How can you support your baby’s development?
Your baby is becoming more self aware day by day. They are understanding their name, their environment, and becoming really aware of their body. But is there anything that you can do to help them in their developmental journey? Yes, there is! You can support your baby’s development by providing them a healthy, safe and nurturing environment. Tinyvers helps 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 5 has been designed specially for 9 to 10 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 5:
1. Peekaboo scarf:
At around 9 months, your baby starts understanding the concept of object permanence, making names like peekaboo a lot more exciting. The peekaboo scarf allows you to play peekaboo with your baby and let them explore the concept of object permanence. It allows you to spend quality time with your little one while promoting their social and emotional development.
2. Disc stack:
Disc Stack is a fun game that allows your baby to focus on their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Picking up the discs will allow your baby to practice their pincer grasp and dropping the disc on the dowel will allow them to focus on their hand eye coordination.
3. Grip and play:
As your baby is practicing their grasping skills, grip and play makes their practice a whole lot of fun. Holding the dowel and putting it through the hole allows your baby to work on their grasping skills,hand to hand transfer, hand-eye coordination and helps them in developing patience. It also helps your little one develop problem solving skills, shape recognition and provides them sensory stimulation.
4. Rattle keys:
If your little one enjoys grabbing your keys and playing with them, this key rattle is the perfect toy for them.
These wooden keys are safe, easy to grab and come in three different shapes making it exciting for your little one to play with. These keys help your baby to practice their pincer grasping skills and stimulate their tactile and auditory senses.
Your baby loves dropping and throwing things. The puzzle coin box is a safe way to encourage this in a safe and controlled environment. Dropping the coins in the box allows your baby to practice their grasping skills, hand eye coordination and develop problem solving skills.
6. Eric’s mood:
As your baby starts experiencing a variety of emotions from happiness to frustration for the first time, it can be difficult for them. The book Eric’s Mood allows you to talk about different kinds of emotions to your baby. It also helps them to develop a deeper understanding of emotions leading to their social and emotional development.
7. Flashcards
At this stage, your baby slowly starts understanding the meaning of words. They are more responsive and eager to explore new things. Introducing them to vegetables and wild animals is a great way to widen their exposure to the world.
The vegetable and wild animal flashcards are perfect to introduce them to different vegetables and wild animals. It helps them to develop language skills, memory skills and identification skills.
Watching your little one be super active and ready to take on the world is definitely a proud parent moment. As your baby becomes more active and interactive, you as a parent have an important role to play. At this stage, providing them with toys such as disc stack, grip and play, rattle keys and puzzle coin box supports their overall development. Moreover, playing games like peekaboo and reading books like Eric’s mood helps you to spend quality time with your baby. Remember, it’s your love and support that helps them grow.