At six months, the baby’s body is gradually strengthening and the nervous system is becoming more mature. At this time, the baby has been able to turn over proficiently, hand-eye coordination is further enhanced, cognitive leap, and began to have the performance of recognition.
One, six months of baby development standards
1.Boys’ weight: 6.4-9.8 kg, girls’ weight: 5.7-9.3 kg.
2, height of boys: 65.1-70.5 cm, height of girls: 63.3-68.6 cm.
3, movement: the baby in bed can soon turn over from supine to lateral position, and from lateral to prone position. Will both hands at the same time to grasp things in front of them, but will not pinch things with fingertips, can only use the palm of the hand and all fingers raw grasp things. The small hand is not yet able to drive the fingers, but can use both hands freely, and the hand, eye and mouth have cooperated more freely.
4, language: the baby is not sleeping, the mouth is constantly “talking”, although adults do not understand, but still can feel the baby’s expression of meaning. For example, the baby will be fiddling with the toys in his hands while making sounds such as “ka…da…ma”, as if he is saying something to himself.
5.Cognition: baby can really notice that others take away what he/she is playing with, he/she will cry to show his/her resistance, and at the same time, he/she will start to show signs of recognition.
6.Emotional and social behaviors: babies will smile when they are happy, cry when they are frightened or in a bad mood, their emotions change quickly, and they will cry when their mother leaves. When the baby hears the mother’s words, he will smile and bring his hands together in front of his chest, like clapping his hands. To the surrounding things have their own observation comprehension, will read other people’s faces, others smile at him, he will also smile, others are serious to him, he will hide in his mother’s arms afraid to look.
Second, the six-month-old baby feeding points
1, breastfeeding: 6 months old baby, the main food of the day is still breast milk, can gradually extend the feeding interval, shorten the feeding time. At this time the baby has begun to grow teeth, you can prepare some coarse particles of food, through chewing food to train the baby’s chewing.
2, artificial feeding: the amount of milk a day should be controlled within 1000 ml, otherwise it will become obese children, parents can feed some water or vegetable soup before breastfeeding. Feeding time is not more than 20 minutes, as long as the baby is full.
3.Anorexia period: When babies are around 6 months old, it is easy for them to eat and stop and be interrupted by things around them or sounds to drink milk for a short period of time. However, the amount of milk drunk is reduced, but the mobility and growth will not be affected, which is called “physiological anorexia”. It is advisable for parents to choose a quiet and undisturbed environment for breastfeeding to avoid distracting the baby.
3. Supplementary food additions: At this time, the main food for babies is still based on milk, and semi-solid supplementary food, such as rice porridge or noodles, should be added only once a day, and egg porridge, fish porridge, minced meat porridge, minced liver porridge, etc. should be made for babies.
Three, six months baby care points
1.This month’s care tip: Doctors recommend vision checkups for infants every six months to ensure normal binocular vision and coordination of eye movements. A few babies start teething in this month, and parents should take on the task of protecting their baby’s teeth. Also, doulas need to be attentive in their baby’s sleep and attire.
2. Eye care: After 6 months, the baby’s two eyes can focus and will adjust their posture so that they can see what they want to see clearly. Doctors recommend that babies have their eyesight checked every 6 months to ensure normal vision and coordination of eye movements in both eyes.
3, oral care: 6 months of age baby teeth have not yet erupted, the alveoli have not yet developed, the mouth is relatively shallow. With the gradual development of “salivary cells”, saliva secretion also gradually increased, drooling will be a common phenomenon, and spittle can be said to be another form of drooling. For the baby into the teething period, parents should help the baby to start oral cleaning, more importantly, to the child to develop good feeding habits.
4, baby sleep: When growing to the 6th month, sleep is still an important part of the baby’s life, parents must reasonably arrange the baby’s day, so that the baby has sufficient sleep time every day, and develop good sleep habits to ensure that the baby has plenty of energy.
5, baby dress: from birth to the first 6 months, the baby’s basic clothing should be jumpsuits. This kind of jumpsuit to cotton is better, light color or plain, front opening and crotch at the root of the thigh, easy to wear. 6 months old baby because the body surface area is relatively large and heat dissipation, but the body’s ability to produce heat is not enough, so when going out in the cold should pay attention to more clothes.
Four, six months baby common disease prevention
1.Autumn diarrhea
Symptoms: the number of stools increased, about 10 times a day, more than 3 times should be considered autumn diarrhea, white, yellow or green egg flower soup-like stools, with a little mucus or pus and blood, no fishy smell.
Treatment: The principles of treatment for diarrheal disease are prevention of dehydration, correction of dehydration, continuation of diet, and reasonable use of medication.
Prevention: advocate breastfeeding, avoid weaning in summer, and change the type of diet. Add complementary foods at the right time and in the right amount, feed reasonably, do not be too full of milk food, do not enter indigestible food.
2.Infant intussusception
Symptoms: Most of the infants present with characteristic jam-like stools 4-12 hours after the onset of the disease. A small number of infants come to the clinic without blood in the stool, only the anal examination gloves stained with blood.
Treatment: For babies with severe intestinal entrapment, surgical treatment should be performed to reposition the entrapped intestine by dissection.
Prevention: The addition of complementary foods must follow the principle of gradual progress, not too hasty.