During the first six Months, your babies grow up and develop their skills very quickly. Parents can obviously observe from when babies develop their physical development, especially their fine motor skills. This happens when they try to grab or hold objects. They learn how to control muscles. Moreover, they understand sensory stimulation and express their needs both physical and emotional to parents.
Apppropriate Toys for 0-6 Months
- Visual Stimulation - Encourage your babies to focus on objects and stimulate their vision development like mobiles and baby gym.
- Motor Stimulation - Help your babies use for batting, grasping and kicking such as mobiles and baby gyms.
- Auditory Stimulation - Soothe your babies with gentle sounds using music boxes or rattles irrors.
- Intellectual Stimulation - Grab your babies’ attention in looking at pictures and listening to other people tell story through using floating baby book or photos book with vivid colors. Encourage you babies to learn about themselves and surroundings such as unbreakable safety mirrors.
Newborn Development:
- Move to take the form of general reflexes which involve the whole body
- Get blurry vision and still not good at focusing on objects.
- Love staying close to familiar adults.
- Recognize and respond to familiar vision and sounds
- Cry to communicate.
Month 1 Development
- Turn their heads while lying on tummies.
- Grip finger in their palms.
- Only focus on objects about 8-12 inches away.
- Become calm when picking them up and speaking with rhythmic or gentle voices.
- Get startled at loud noises.
- Watch and follow objects placed in front of their faces, especially the ones with vivid colors.
- Communicate by smiling, gazing, and crying.
- Begin to make simple sounds such as "Ooh" and "Aah".
Month 2 Development
- Hold heads up for a short period of time.
- Follow nearby large objects with eyes.
- Enjoy being hugged and cuddled.
- Smile when being touched or talked with.
- Follow objects with eyes and recognize people at a distance.
- Make cooing and gurgling sounds.
Month 3 Development
- Lift heads and chests up and look both ways when lying on stomachs.
- Sit only with full support.
- Attempt to reach for a toy held above their chests.
- Follow moving objects.
- Start to babble and mimic sounds they hear.
- Observe environment by putting stuffs into their mouths.
- Make eye contact and chuckle in response to people.
Month 4 Development
- Hold heads steady without support.
- Begin to creep.
- Sit with some support.
- Reach objects with two hands together at body's midline.
- Put hands in their mouths or out objects from hands to mouths
- Show anxiety when approached by unfamiliar people.
- Recognize familiar people and objects at a distance.
- Babble, express and mimic sounds they hear.
Month 5 Development
- Hold up heads and shoulders.
- Sit with hands support.
- Can slowly hold on to any objects with a single hand.
- Respond to their own names.
- Smile at others.
- Recognize familiar objects and explore objects they're interested in.
- Babble, express and mimic sounds they hear.
Month 6 Development
- Scoot, roll or crawl.
- Roll over side to side.
- Begin to sit with a little help.
- Start teething
- Respond to people’s expressions of emotions
- Often become joyful.
- Realize if an object is dropped, it's still there and should be picked up.
- Make sounds with one-syllable words such as "Ba", "Da", "Ma."
- Appropriate Toys for 0 to 6 Months
