With your baby reaching the 7th month, your baby has better taste and texture perception than in the past month. Your baby’s senses are getting stronger including their hearing, tactile, and smell capabilities. There are many more 7 month old baby milestones that you must know about.
If your baby is starting to get anxious when left alone or when you are going out, you must know that this is completely normal. Babies go through what is known as separation anxiety. If you leave your baby alone even for some time, they may start crying. This mostly happens with caregivers and people to who the baby is very close to. Here are other things you must know about your baby’s important milestones in the 7th month.
In This Article
- Important Milestones You Can Expect From a 7 Month Old Baby
- How Can Your Help Your Baby Reach Their 7 Month Milestone?
- Milestones You Can Expect at the End of 7th Month
- When Should You Consider Seeing the Doctor?
Important Milestones You Can Expect From a 7 Month Old Baby
Here are some of the milestones you can expect your baby to reach during their 7th month
1. Hearing Development
Your baby will start searching for the source of various sounds. If you play peek-a-boo and call out their name, they will turn all around and search for you.
2. Vision Development
Babies can track better and perceive distance. They now know when an object is nearby, within reach or far away.
3. Development of Smell
Sense of smell improves and plays a big role in a baby’s food choices.
4. Development of Taste
Your baby will be ready to try more food items and start liking new tastes. The palette will keep changing, so they might like sour today but hate it next week.
5. Development of Touch
Babies will touch and explore everything. If your baby is showing signs of moving, you should consider babyproofing low-lying sockets and edges as they are bound to explore these items by touching it.
[Read : Complete Baby Proofing Checklist For Babies Ready to Crawl]
6. Fine Motor Skill Development
Your baby’s pincer grip is improving. By the next month, your baby may want to try and eat food by themselves.
7. Gross Motor Skill Development
Your baby might get on all fours and start rocking back and forth.
8. Social-Emotional Development
Interaction increases through babbling, cooing, and screaming for attention.
9. Physical Development
Babies can sit up and play for a few minutes before they decide to go on their stomachs or all fours.
10. Movement Milestone
Many babies will start attempting to move. They will start slowly dragging themselves across the floor and might even get on all fours comfortably.
11. Language Development
Your baby might start saying single-syllable words like ma, pa, ba, tha, etc.
12. Cognitive Skill Development
The brain is developing at a great speed. They will start exploring and try to understand how the toy moves, lights up, or makes sounds.
How Can Your Help Your Baby Reach Their 7 Month Milestone?
Here is what you can do, to help them develop on various fronts:
- Keep talking and teaching sounds to your baby. Keep repeating small words to help them learn them fast.
- Help your baby sit up with support and leave toys around. This will encourage them to sit up or move and play.
- Keep introducing new foods to your baby to allow them different tastes and textures.
[Read : 10 Tips To Communicate With Newborn]
Milestones You Can Expect at the End of 7th Month
At the end of 7th month, your baby will be able to
- Roll over both sides and both ways comfortably
- Sit up with very little or no support
- Reach for items out of reach
- Use words or babble continuously to communicate
- Show strong preferences towards people, colour, food and toys.
When Should You Consider Seeing the Doctor?
You must consult your pediatrician when your baby
- Does not roll over both sides yet
- Is unable to sit up even for a few seconds with support
- Does not respond to their name or simple commands
- Shows no interest in chewing or mouthing food items
At this stage, the rate of both physical and cognitive developments increase. If there is a delay in achieving every milestone, you may consider consulting a doctor to rule out any developmental delays.
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