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• LO V E YO U R CH IL D • • A L L CH IL D RE N M A TT ER •

Helping your baby

develop and learn

Give your baby lots of tummy time.

1 Put a few toys out and encourage
her to move her body to reach the
toys

Help your baby learn to sit. Prop

2 him up with his back against a few Your Baby at
pillows every day. Sit behind him
and give him some support. Sit at 6 Months
his feet on the floor and gently pull
him forward to a sitting position
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Talk and sing to your baby
3 throughout the day as you feed, Motivator Programme 2018
wash and change his nappy and tell
him what you are doing, pointing
out and giving names to objects

Cuddle up with your baby and look

4 at pictures or a book, pointing out
objects, people or animals in the
pictures

Give your baby toys and safe

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WHAT YOUR BABY CAN DO
Learning to move
• Twists and turns in all directions
• Sits with support for up to half
an hour
• Gets into a crawling position
• Reaches for and grasp a toy
using both hands at once
• Holds a toy with fingers wrapped
around it
Learning about self and
others
• Smiles and coos at self in front of a
mirror
• Acts differently towards strangers
• Cries and screams when upset
• Laughs, coos and shrieks when
happy
GAMES AND TOYS
Learning to communicate
Sing a Song
• Turns her head to see where
sounds come from Remember the songs of your own
• Begins to understand some words childhood
• Makes sounds like ‘da’, ‘ga’, ‘ka’ Make up simple songs about the things
and ‘ba’ you are doing
• If you copy the sounds that baby Sing a song using one sound that baby is
makes, she repeats the same already making, such as ‘ba’, instead of
words
sounds back to you
Use the tune of a song you know well,
then sing the single sound all the way
through
For example to the tune of “Old
MacDonald” you will sing:
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Learning to think Ba ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
• Turns her head to look for a toy Ba ba ba ba ba….
when she drops it
• Holds an object with one hand
and then puts it in another
hand
• Picks up a toy, looks at it and
waves it around, puts it in her
mouth and chews on it
• Bangs a toy on the floor or
table