6 month old baby

Your baby is six months old and you are all excited to cheer and wonder looking at their grown up personalities. By now, you might well know what your baby prefers to play and eat. These are the social toddlers, who have good interaction session with parents, relatives, grandparents and their counterparts (if they get together). By now you will be able to hear even more letters and the vowels and consonants they are spelling out. They are on their own; they pick up their own toy and play with them. Their passion for exploring still continues, and they question you in their own language by staring at you. Its almost six months, your baby are just doing what you had expected them to be doing, more and more expectations arise and your baby is fulfilling them neatly, how does that sound?

Yeah, to some extent babies do fulfill our expectations, they will try to make funny faces like you do, even try to held things you showed them, try to stand tall by balancing themselves, etc. this is one of the beautiful phases of your life seeing them grow and develop. By six months, your baby should be capable of keeping the head level with body while sitting, speak long nodes of consonants. They might even be probably able to sit without any support, bear the weight on legs and stand, razzing sound, turn towards the direction of the sound. Your baby should possibly be able to stand on support or holding some object, try to object if the toy is taken away from them, look out for dropped object, rake with their fingers, make babble sounds. Babies at six months are grown up and they know well what are their needs and what they want to do next. At this month, they may even be able to creep or crawl, get into the sitting positions, say words like mama, dada, baba, try to pick up a tiny object.

6 MONTH BABY CHECK UP:

At this month’s check up, your doctor might ask you the following:

How are baby’s eating and sleeping habits, their general progress.

Measuring your child’s height and weight, their head’s circumference and over all progress.

Doctor might examine baby’s physical growth, they might especially want to check the mouth and seeing the progress compared with the previous records.

The developmental assessment helps the examiner to prepare reports of the evaluation tests like control of the head, their ability to hear, see the objects – vision, grasp the objects, bearing weight on their legs, their ability to realize vocal sounds.

The time for third round of immunization (only if the baby is in good health).

Check for haemoglobin levels to check for anaemia, this test is more prudent for low birth weight babies.

The guidance about what to expect in the next month that would include their eating, sleeping and developmental growth.

You might have loads of questions to ask your doctor at six months of your baby. The most prominent question being: 1. The reactions your baby might have on the third round of immunization? 2. Treating those reactions 3. The foods that you can introduce to your baby this month. You can raise all your concerns of the past one month or several months together in this months’ doctor meet, take the dairy along in which you written all the questions and take down important points said by doctor.