What are the developmental indicators of a five and a half month old baby?

After the baby is born, the development standards of each month are different. When the baby is 5 and a half months old, he or she has made great progress in both intelligence and physical movement. In order to ensure the baby's health, the following are some development indicators for babies at 5 and a half months old. I hope they will be helpful to all parents.

Overview of Intellectual Development at 5 Months

1. Body movement and control: When attracted by a toy, the baby can turn over continuously (for example, he can turn from prone to supine and then to prone)

2. Exploration and manipulation: The baby starts to knock on the table with small objects.

3. Language: Babies often make some consonant syllables (such as baba, papa, mama, dada, didi, etc.)

4. Social adaptation: The baby starts to feel unfamiliar with others. For example, when a stranger holds the baby, the baby will be unhappy, but when the mother holds the baby, the baby will be happy.

Long teeth

Because the baby's saliva secretion increases and the mouth is shallow, and the lip closure and swallowing movements are not coordinated, the baby cannot swallow the secreted saliva in time, so he will drool a lot. At this time, in order to protect the baby's neck and chest from getting wet by saliva, you can put a bib on the baby.

Note: The time when children begin to teethe erupt varies greatly. The normal range is 4 to 10 months. As long as teeth erupt within 10 months, it is considered normal.

Emotional and social development

A child will not be very friendly to everyone. He likes his parents the most, and by the fourth month he will like other children. If he has older brothers and sisters, you will see that he is very happy when they talk to him. When hearing children's voices on the street or on TV, they turn their heads to look for them. As a child grows older, his love for children will also increase. In contrast, he would only give a curious look or a smile to strangers.

He may have learned to use gestures and other movements to express happiness; emotions of fear or unhappiness may begin to appear. Lying on the bed and babbling by himself, the baby suddenly stopped moving and his eyes stopped looking around and stared at one place. After a while, they returned to normal. What the baby wanted to express was, I was talking and laughing happily, but while I was playing, I suddenly remembered something. I was stunned for a while, but I couldn’t think clearly, so I continued to play.

Hold your baby and sit opposite the mirror, let the baby face the mirror, then tap the glass to attract the baby's attention to his own image in the mirror. He can clearly look at his own figure, smile at himself in the mirror and "talk" to him.

Physical appearance and growth

During this period, babies' facial features such as eyebrows and eyes also "grow", their faces become rosy and smooth, and they become more adorable. At this time, the baby has gradually matured, showing a lively and cute body, and the growth rate of height and weight has slowed down compared to before.

When the baby is five months old: the baby boy weighs 5.3 to 9.2 kg and is 60.5 to 71.3 cm long.

The weight of the baby girl is 5.0 to 8.4 kg and the height is 58.9 to 69.3 cm.

The above are the developmental indicators of a 5 and a half month old baby. Not only does the baby have a very clear developmental standard in terms of physical appearance, but the baby has also learned preliminary expressions in terms of emotional communication. So you can judge whether your baby's physical development is normal based on the above information.