After the Christmas break we resume the Baby calendar in Babies and more with eleven-month-old children. It is not that there is much difference with those of ten months really, but we do observe that day by day they learn new things, explore a little more and look for new goals to face.
It is a time marked, above all, by the desire for company (they still feel the anguish of separation) and the need for company, since their heads, their desires and their needs are one step ahead of their psychomotor possibilities.
Let's see below some features that can define the eleven month babies.
Feeding in the eleven month baby
At this age they have an incredible ability coordinating hands and mouth and easily take small foods (peas, grapes, Russian salad) to take them to the mouth.
Most of them are able to move food for a long time in the mouth without choking, biting it with their teeth or slap with the gums (some babies still don't have teeth at this age) and ingest it definitely.
Many of the breastfed babies start between the tenth and eleventh month to accept food (you already know many the phrase "passed from the tit to the macaroni") and where before there were bad faces or closed mouths now there is curiosity and desire to try everything.
The pieces must already be present in the feeding of boys and girls to avoid getting used to the texture "porridge" and then reject food.
The dream at eleven months of age
Unpredictable, variable, without fixed pattern. Some babies sleep quite a few hours in a row at this age, although as we have said before, the mature dream does not really come until 5-6 years, so it is still normal and usual for eleven-month-old babies, even though they look like little men and little women, keep waking up often.
The appearance of the teeth, which when it is not one is another, the anguish of separation (they do not want to feel alone), the amount of things they learn during the day and the need for suction (in addition to, probably, many other causes), They make nighttime awakenings still common.
Socialization and language in the eight-month-old baby
At eleven months there is not much news in the areas of socialization and development language of babies.
Most of them already know that when they drop something or hide it, it is somewhere and they look for it despite not seeing it, they imitate gestures (goodbye, the “five little wolves”) and many even collaborate by dressing or undressing (raising their arms when they touch or making strength to put the sleeves).
Some begin to say mom or dad with meaning, although most babies will not do so until later.
They begin to understand a little what the issue of prohibitions is about and they show it to us by making faces of "you talk to me differently at other times" or crying if they can't do what they want.
The most common is that after a "this is not done" continue to do so. As parents we must understand that The ability to think about the consequences of acts at this age is very limited (not to say null), that they understand only a few things that we tell them about and that they are not able to memorize norms and therefore to internalize them.
By this I mean that the most common thing is that they don't pay too much attention to us even though we repeat things several times.
The advice is to keep doing it (keep giving our version of the facts), be very patient and try to divert our child's attention to something else when he is about to do (or is doing) something we don't want him to do.
Body development at eleven months of age
At this age, most crawling babies are already crawling, those who were crawling are already getting up with the help of dad and mom's hands or leaning on furniture or walls and those who were already getting up dare even to take some step without support (the less).
It is amazing to see the speed they crawl and how to avoid obstacles. Many even stop, sit down, play something and go back to crawling to reach a new destination.
Like the goats ...
The moment they get to their feet they discover a world 75 cm from the ground very different from what they observe when they are sitting or crawling.
Drawers, coffee tables, chairs, low furniture, DVD players, remote controls, mobiles, sofas, etc ... are part of the novelties they discover and love.
Many times they lose even the north taking things with both hands to touch them, standing until they fall or realize they are standing unsupported.
This, added to the desire to touch everything, makes it the stage in which many parents (I include myself), we say, affectionately, They are "like goats."
Their eyes and their head go ahead of their possibilities and literally throw themselves at what they like or want at that moment. They take your food off the plate, they grab your toothbrush (as you can see, I do many things with my son in my arms), they open your drawers, put your head in the washing machine and have a good time discovering that micro closed metal world called Drum and put in the cabinets you open and make you the inventory ("this, out, this, out, this, also out"), among other things.
It is a hard stage for parents from the physical point of view, because they are able to stand up with the danger that entails and we must become their life insurance, their ladder to see what they want to see in the heights, their feet to get where their eyes do and their little bodies and their arms to help them hold what they can only grasp a few moments.
However, it is a magical stage, because its character begins to conform, because they smile at you before doing something “suspicious” and because you realize that the baby that eleven months ago curled up in your arms is now a little person with many abilities.
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