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Baby's Development at the age of Eleven months
Your eleven month old baby has come along a long way during her
journey from infancy to almost a year old age now. Just one month
past, she will be termed as a year old. Indeed the progress shown
by her through all these months has been simply breathtaking and
enjoyable. You have had your share of sleepless nights and
tiresome days, yet of course nothing stands tall enough as against
the absolute joy you have experienced while taking care of your
little one and watching her grow.
Now that she is an eleven months old, she reflects substantial
independence in terms of both physical and cognitive developments.
Inviting all the more attention and vigilance, your little one now
is able to stand solo, stoop and squat. She may be already walking
by holding your fingers tightly. Dressing her up is no more a
noisy affair as she has developed an understanding of the need of
dressing up. She may generally cooperate while dressing up by
holding out her arm or leg in accordance. She may also show
distinct interest in holding cup or spoon herself, in a bid to
feed herself by herself. She may even hand-feed her food by now.
She likes to drop objects in her hand so as to enjoy as you pick
them up.
Becoming more skilled day by day, you can improve her liking
for books by buying her colorful and bright books that she can
turn overleaf again and again. Of course you cannot expect her to
turn pages one by one as of now, but letting her explore the books
at her own pace and in her own manner would let her like it
better. She will as usual set certain books as more likeable than
others. You will know about her favorite books as she will come
back to them again and again.
A wholesome person in the making, she is already assertive of
her preferences and priorities among her siblings. She likes to
play by herself rather than with another child at this juncture.
The parallel play comes naturally to her. By now, she may even
have a pet blanked or stuffed animal toy, as a security object.
In all probability, your baby understands the simple
instructions you give to her, but she purposely ignores your
instruction as you prohibit her to do a certain thing. Your ‘No’
should therefore be reserved for truly dangerous activities that
she may try to engage in out of curiosity. What seems like an act
of defiance is actually her innate and natural desire to explore.
The desire is explore is so strong that she tends to overlook your
instructions and forget what you said about it yesterday. So the
need to protect and teach her is by all means a responsibility
that would invite persistence and carefulness. Besides her own
protection, you also need to set limits for her that must not be
violated for her own good, like eating more than two toffees may
be strictly forbidden for the day.
Starting from now on, you may teach her between right, wrong
and feasible or otherwise. Say when she pulls tail of your dog,
you should assertively say ‘No. That will hurt dog”.
By eleventh month, your bundle of joy also becomes a bundle of
words and word like sounds, in all probability. She is now able to
use her vocabulary meaningfully. The frontal lobes of her brain
are developing gradually, which help her achieving better
cognitive abilities. Your baby must be persistently encouraged to
engage in a two-way communication process, wherein you
consistently engage in listening to her words and non-sense
utterances with interest and comprehension, as if. You can also
play games like peek-a-boo and pat-a-cake with your baby so as to
refine her memory span.
She may be able to imitate sounds, modulations and actions, by
now. She can also follow simple directions and help you in her
tiny ways. Advisable is to help learn her instructions more easily
by sub dividing the directions into simpler ones. Try speaking to
her like, “Pick up the spoon”, and the probability is that she
would look for the spoon and stoop down to pick it up.
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