Your baby: 8 months old
While any dozen babies are awfully similar at one day, one week and even one month old in their abilities and skills, by eight months their developmental paths diverge, often dramatically. While some of them may be pulling themselves to stand and cruise around the house from handhold to handhold, others aren?t crawling yet, content (or frankly annoyed) to be lying wherever you left them. But if comparisons seem designed to make you worry, the commonalities may reassure you, including the separation anxiety that takes hold this month. If you?re smitten with motherhood, this is a wonderful time to revel in your baby?s adoration. If you?re being loved more than you can stand, this stage can bring clinginess that may drive you batty.
8-month-old development & milestones Fine motor skills
Your baby?s pincer grasp may be coming into fine form right about now?great for retrieving Cheerios from their tray or popping dead bugs and splinters from the floor into their mouth before you can say ?Ugh, gross!? But the fine motor skills that may come easily to some babies are slower to show up in others, who may manage to grasp some things but not release them (your hair, for example). The development of hand skills has a predictable pattern, and there are ways to help your baby refine their technique.
Wonder Weeks Leap 6
It?s all about categorization, baby! Between 36 and 40 weeks (or eight to nine months), your baby is figuring out how everything around them is organized and using e...
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