You’ve been watching many changes over the last few months, and month eight will be no different in terms of the amount baby development you’ll observe.  Physically, mentally, and emotionally, your baby will be advancing in leaps and bounds with many significant baby milestones to be passed over the next thirty days.

Keep in mind that every baby has his or her own timing for development.  As Susan Biasella, RN, BSN, LCCE, FACCE assures parents, “Don’t be concerned if your child is not doing something listed here. Each baby develops at her own pace”. These developments typically happen anywhere within six to twelve weeks of this stage of a baby’s life.

To begin with, your baby’s motor skills development will allow him or her to put some additional weight on his or her legs, so get ready to see some regular bouncing up and down!  Furthermore, you’ll start to see more baby development for unsupported sitting, which gives your child the opportunity to use newly freed-up hands to reach for objects around him or her and to explore the close environment.  In fact, your baby may even learn to push up from lying down on his or her tummy to move into a sitting position.

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Now that the hands are free while sitting, the baby development in terms of motor skills will build to allow for effective grabbing.  This means that not only will he or she be scooping things up – anything within reach, that is – but your little one will also begin passing objects from one hand to the other with a certain degree of ease. This is a good time to develop their fine motor skills, search through this Toy Department and find out toys that is suitable for your child

Keep in mind that this will require you to stay much more on your toes, as your baby will be able to swoop in and grab things much more quickly than a few weeks before.  As Dr. Steven Jerome Parker – who was a pediatrician for over 20 years, part of the Boston Medical Center, director of the behavioral and developmental pediatrics division of the Boston University School of Medicine, and author of the pediatrician textbook Behavioral Development Pediatrics: A Handbook for Primary Care (as well as the co-author of the updated 1998 version of Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care) – put it, “Beware, here comes the “neat pincer grasp,” in which your infant can pick up the smallest object between their thumb and forefinger, a far cry from the clumsy raking grasp  that jump-started the process just a few months ago.  Coupled with 20:20 vision and keen interest in all things small, watch for the littlest speck of dust to make it into their hands and thence to the mouth.”

By the end of the month, you may be excited to see your baby grasping and sipping from a two-handled cup – with a bit of help from you.  Things will also start becoming relatively noisy as your baby discovers the joy of banging things together and striking something against another object.

If you want to encourage baby development of finer motor skills, simply place a toy that your child wants just outside of easy reach. Your baby will work to obtain it.  If he or she becomes cries because it’s difficult to grab, don’t simply hand him or her the toy.  Crying is just a way to vent the frustration. If you allow your baby to take on the challenge, you’ll build essential physical confidence.  To further help in this effort, make sure that your baby is dressed in comfortable, loose clothing so that mobility and explorations are easier.

On a more mental level of baby development, your little one will start to understand rules – and will want to test those boundaries and your authority on a regular basis.  The cognitive skills development of your baby will begin to allow him or her to want to start toward independence, which sometimes means getting into what he or she shouldn’t.  Occasionally, something will be thrown at you – just because.  Though you’ve already made it clear that the phone is not a toy, your baby will likely try to play with it anyway – regularly.  Your baby is not deliberately being willful or disobedient.  It is simple curiosity and a testing of boundaries and authority that is a normal part of baby development. To best handle it, simply say “no” and then provide a distraction.

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Recognition skills are an important part of this stage of baby development.  You can play peek-a-boo, hiding games, understand the meaning of different tones of voice, and he or she will even start to learn that after the jack-in-the-box song, the toy will pop up.

Keep in mind that baby development is different from one child to another.  Don’t try to rush things along and don’t try to slow them down if your baby has decided that he or she is ready for the next step.  As Tracy Hogg once said in her book Secrets of The Baby Whisperer, “It takes time and practice–a lot of doing it wrong before you get it right. And it takes listening to your own intuition”.

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