What is the development standard for a two and a half month old baby?

After the baby is born, the family will become warmer and happier, especially as the baby grows day by day, learns more and more things, and becomes more lovely day by day. However, the growth and development of the baby is also the most worrying thing for parents, especially for many babies who are not fed with enough breast milk and are artificially fed. What worries parents the most is that the baby cannot absorb nutrients better and suffers from malnutrition. Let's learn about the development standards of a two and a half month old baby.

What is the development standard for a two and a half month old baby?

Babies from 2 to 3 months old can already see things with their eyes, hear with their ears, and their hands and feet movements become gradually more accurate, but they still cannot grasp things.

Growth and development standards

Sleep

Babies this month have begun to have problems with refusing to go to bed and sleeping alone. How to arrange the baby's sleep during this period is an important period that tests the parents' patience. Babies are not fully developed and get tired easily, so the younger they are, the longer they need to sleep. For a one-month-old baby, the main contents of life are still understanding meals and sleeping. He eats an average of 6 to 8 times a day, with an interval of 2.5 to 3.5 hours between each meal. Relatively speaking, he sleeps more, usually 18 to 20 hours a day, of which about 3 hours are spent sleeping soundly in a deep sleep. From a safety perspective, most pediatricians are against letting babies sleep in their parents' bed this month. A small crib should be prepared for the baby to sleep in, but the baby's crib can be placed in the parents' own bedroom so that it is easier to take care of the baby. Do not put anything in the cradle that may block your baby's breathing, and make sure that the cradle you buy meets safety standards for your baby's sleep.

urination

Babies born this month have a thinner bladder muscle layer, underdeveloped elastic tissue, small bladder capacity, poor urine storage function, nervous system control and regulation of urination, and kidney concentration and dilution of water. Therefore, babies of this age urinate more frequently. Of course, if parents observe carefully, they will find that the number of times the baby defecates is related to how much food and water the baby eats.

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When the baby is 2 months old, the angle of the chin off the bed can reach 45° in the prone position, but it cannot last for a long time. When the baby is lying on his stomach, parents must be there to watch over him to prevent suffocation due to poor breathing. Unless the baby is sleeping or feeding, his hands and feet will keep moving. Although they are not flexible, they move frequently. From birth to 2 months old, the baby's motor development is in an active stage. The baby can make many different movements and his facial expressions gradually become richer. Sometimes he would cry in his sleep, with his mouth pouted as if he was very aggrieved; sometimes he would laugh unconsciously.

Hearing

After more than a month of feeding, the baby is very familiar with the voice of his mother. If he hears an unfamiliar voice, he will be afraid, and if the voice is loud, he will cry. Therefore, you should let your baby listen to some gentle music and songs, and the voice you talk and sing to your baby should be pleasant to the baby's ears. The baby already likes his family to communicate with him very much, and he will feel lonely when his family ignores him. The baby's hearing has developed greatly at this time. He can respond to adults talking to him and show fear to sudden noises.

Touch

The tactile development of babies under 2 months old is mainly based on radial movements, and these reactions are all for finding food or self-protection.

Vision

Babies can see moving objects when they are 1.5 to 2 months old. Some children with strabismus can correct themselves before 8 weeks of age and their eyes can move in unison.

Every baby's physical condition is different. When taking care of our babies, we must judge our baby's development based on his or her physical condition and feeding methods. The above is an introduction to the development standards for two and a half month old babies. As long as the baby is within the normal growth range, breastfeeding mothers must pay attention to a balanced diet and take their babies for regular physical examinations.