How long does it take for a baby to stand?

When you see your baby stand up for the first time and hear your baby call mom and dad for the first time, you as the baby's parents must be the happiest. You may even shed tears of excitement. This at least proves that all your previous efforts have not been in vain. Of course, for many parents, they may still lack certain experience in raising babies, so they will encounter various troubles. So, how long does it take for a baby to stand?

1. When does the baby learn to stand?

After going through the process of motor development such as lifting the head, sitting, rolling over, and crawling, the baby gradually transitions to learning to stand. Generally, babies can stand independently when they are 9-10 months old. Standing not only develops motor functions, but also promotes the baby's intellectual development.

Babies aged 9-10 months can stand by grabbing something. What they like most is to stand holding their mother’s hand, as it seems that this makes them feel most secure. In fact, another point is that by holding his mother's hand, he can gain leverage.

2. How does the baby learn to stand?

When the child is learning to stand, we can hold his hand. This is an action that has already begun when you put your fingers into your child's palm and practice pull-up sitting. With the pulling power of the mother's big hands, as long as the child can stand up, the stage of learning to stand is completed. The next step is to let the child hold on to something to stand up. At this time, you can hold a plastic ring in your hand, let the child hold one side of the ring while the adult holds the other side of the ring, and let the child hold the ring and stand up by himself without the adult pulling hard. This kind of standing depends entirely on the child himself. He must mobilize all the strength of the upper limbs, lower limbs, waist, back, chest and abdominal muscles.

Practicing standing is a prelude to a child's walking. After the child has stood well, he can practice walking forward with the support of an adult.

3. Training your baby to learn to stand

Stand with both hands: When training your baby to stand, proceed gradually from easy to difficult. At the beginning, you can support your baby under his arms with both hands and let him practice standing. When the baby can stand steadily with both hands, you can train him to stand with one hand. Let the baby stand with one hand and use the other hand to pick up toys.

Practice standing alone: ​​Adults can hold the baby's armpits with both hands, let the baby's back and buttocks against the wall, with the heels slightly away from the wall and the lower limbs slightly apart to stand firmly, then slowly let go and clap to encourage the baby to stand alone.

Standing up exercise: Teach the baby to support the body with his hands from a prone position, then kneel on his legs, crawl, and stand up by holding the railing.