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Your baby is more aware of what makes you happy and what dissapoints you. When you clap, he will continue with what he was doing. Sometimes you may want him to show off his new skills and talents to others. Some babies will do this, but do not be dissapointed if he does not. Many babies are not quite ready to be performers yet! Your baby has lots of feelings and emotions. She can get upset very easily. When other people are upset, she knows. She might even respond by getting upset herself. Teach your baby how to deal with her feelings in a positive manner.

If it hasn't already, stranger anxiety may strike around now. He knows when you are not around and will probably cry. Some babies will wake up in the night looking for a familiar face. Practice short separations and when you return, make it enjoyable. When your baby is going somewhere new, plan to stay for a little while to help dettle him in. When you leave, tell him goodbye and give him a kiss/hug. Then, leave. He will get busy playing and will be just fine.

She understands simple sentences and commands. Your baby knows the meaning of `no` and can shake her head from side to side. When she learns a new word, she may become fascinated with it and repeat it all day. When you ask your baby where a part of her body is, she might be able to show you. Read books to your baby and continue to tell her what the pictures show.

From here on out, your baby will be testing your authority. You need to set rules and limits and stick to them. If your baby is allowed to do one thing today but not tomorrow, she will only get confused. Make it easy for your baby to behave. Remember that she is still a baby and set realistic limits. Move temptations out of her way until she can better understand why she needs to leave it alone. Instead of saying `no` all of the time, use words such as `hot`, `it will hurt`, 'it will break`, etc. Be patient, gentle and undersanding when she is doing something that you do not like. If your baby gets angry because she is not getting her way, be firm. Do not give in to make her feel better.

Play games with your baby. Babies like playing peek-a-boo and other hide and find type games. Imitation games are also good for your baby to play. Because babies learn by imitation, only show him things that you want him to learn. This is a good way to teach him how to clap his hands and wave by bye.

Climbing is a skill that is important for your baby to learn. While she is learning to climb, always be nearby in case she falls. Your baby needs to know what types of things are appropriate to climb on. Do not teach her to climb anything that will be off limits. Show her how to climb down crawling backwards so that she does not come down head first. Do not allow her to climb the stairs unless you are with her. Baby gates should be installed at the tops and bottoms of stairs to prevent accidents.

Let your baby use a spoon to feed herself. Mashed potatoes, yogurt, applesauce, cottage cheese and cooked cereals will stick well to the spoon. This can make learning to self-feed less messy. Continue to include finger foods at mealtime and for snacks. Your baby should still be on breastmilk or formula. Mealtimes should be a fun learning time and not frustrating. A mess is easily cleaned up. If your baby senses frustration, she will be less likely to attempt self-feeding.

Developmental Milestones 10 Months Old

Physical

• Crawls
• Stands alone
• May take first steps
• Can walk while holding onto furniture
• Can roll a ball to you
• May be able to `climb` stairs

Intellectual

• Drinks well from a cup
• Plays pat-a-cake
• Waves bye bye
• Likes pretend play toys
• Uses gibberish in a conversational way
• Says mama and dada and possibly other one-two syllable words
• Remembers events and objects
• Likes to bang items together
• May be able to scribble with assistance

Emotional

• Expresses herslef with gestures and sounds instead of crying
• Enjoys your presence
• Likes your applause
• Your baby will cry if he hears you raise your voice

Age Appropriate Toys

• Exersaucer
• Jumper
• Crayons to scribble with-with assistance
• Music
• Pots and pans to bang together
• Musical instruments
• Bath toys
• Push toys
• Toys that roll
• `Pretend` play toys
• Stacking toys
• Building toys
• Cause and effect toys

Comments:

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Onnumber4 - Friday, 10 May
My daughter Rosina is 10 months old today. Her 1st birthday is just around the corner! She still just has 2 bottom teeth. I think I can see where the two top ones will come through soon. No sign of walking unaided but she loves standing and edging along the furniture. She is now much more inquisitive and we constantly have to move her away from the plugs, Dad's desk and kitchen cupboards etc. She says Hiya which I had said I didn't want her to say *oops!* I think she is saying Dada and Mama. She likes her stacking toys but we haven't bought her anything new for a while. We've also found out that Rose will be a big sister in December. My little baby girl won't be the centre of our attention any more which makes me kinda sad. So we'll make the most of these months till little brother or sister arrives! I've had to drop a few breast feeds as I think my milk may be drying up so she has started to have formula milk with breakfast and at night.

Savedbygrace - Tuesday, 19 Mar
HEY EVR! Well havent been on here in a long time...Sammy is getting so big! Hes starting to walk! Hard to believe its been almost a year!

threebagsfool - Tuesday, 5 Feb
Wow, I can't believe Qveah is walking already! Anastasia is cruising still, but she doesn't seem inclined towards taking any steps away from me. She is being such a good baby lately, just full of smiles. Well, so the past two weeks I haven't been feeling well, then I caught a cold and lost my voice and was icky for a while longer. I figured that it was just regular cold stuff going around, but I just found out last night that I'm pregnant again! I'm not too sure about how I feel, I wanted another baby, but not for at least a year and a half. Oh well, I guess it just doesn't feel like it has been long enough since I was pregnant, I still remember the bad stuff, haha. Anyway, Justgirls, I don't know how you managed it being pregnant and running after a little one, but I guess I will be here and in the expecting section, too!

babybaby21986 - Friday, 1 Feb
Congratulation Justgirls3 on your baby girl. She has such a nice name :) How are you doing? Not too hard to look after 2 babies? I am sure you are doing fine :) Well, Levi is still crawling, and trying to stand up. When he holds car, he can walk while pushing ! Not long now I guess before I will have to run after him LOL Him and his sister share a very nice complicity. Must be the fact that there are close age?! I love it. They share toys, they giggle at each other about silly things LOL how everyone's doing?

justgirls3 - Sunday, 27 Jan
well Qveyah is full on walking now no more crawling!!! I am so happy and she is so cute too

threebagsfool - Monday, 21 Jan
Justgirls, I'm glad you are doing well! My son was not clingy at all, in fact he used to get mad when he went to me. Anastasia is entirely different! Michelle, I know that the breast milk is really good for her right now, and I will probably keep the morning and evening nursings, but for me it is just really hard. She refuses a bottle of expressed milk, and I am needing to go to work more full time once I graduate in March, so I am just trying to get her off of her daytime feeds. I also have trouble with the right breast so she has been nursing just on the left side so I am crazy lopsided right now, haha! Nursing has just been pretty tough for me, so I decided that I was going to stick it out for a year and then wean her off. She has always been a snacker, so I'm hoping that cutting back on the number of feedings she might eat a decent amount at each one. I did nursing on demand for the first 9 months, and she was always attached. It sounds like your daughter is doing great with nursing, keep up the good work!

justgirls3 - Sunday, 20 Jan
well i dont want to say she is clingy but if its not me it has to be daddy. but she loves her big sisters just as much. and thank you for my new little loves and let me tell you she is the last lol. i get my tubes tied on the 12 and i am pretty excited.!!!

MichelleMc(pink!) - Saturday, 19 Jan
My daughter is pretty clingy, but I feel like it's just because we are so close. I figure I should enjoy her thinking I'm this great while it lasts! LOL! She nurses a lot throughout the day, too, as well as wakes up 1-2 times a night to nurse, but I figure that's fine- it's such a short time in her life, let her have the most nutritious food she'll ever have as often as she wants. I'm planning to let her self-wean. :)

threebagsfool - Wednesday, 16 Jan
Justgirls- Wow, congratulations on your newest tiny! Glad the ten month check up went well for Qveah. Anastasia is still a little shorty, but that's okay because she can wear her 9 months clothes still and some of them are pretty cute. She just started walking while holding my hands today. She has been cruising for a little while now, but just couldn't figure out how to walk with just holding hands. She walked across the Starbucks today, it was pretty cute. Her daddy was so proud that he wants to make a video of her when he gets home. She is still really clingy, is any one else's baby still clingy? I think it must be the nursing, we are down to five times a day still and I'm trying to get rid of another one this week. I just don't know what to do with her wanting to be playing with me all the time. I've got a recital coming up I need to practice for, and every time I go to the piano she throws a fit. Same thing when I sit at the computer, or just when I'm folding laundry and making dinner. The only time I can get anything done is when she is taking a nap, and that isn't very much time at all. I hope every one is doing good, can you believe it that our babies are almost a year! So crazy!

justgirls3 - Wednesday, 16 Jan
Finally made it to Qveyahs 10 month check up and boy oh boy she is doing great!!! She is now 20 pounds and 29 in a half inches long. She is down to only 2 bottles a day and the rest of the day it is big food. She can now walk which is so great we threw ourselves a little party at home. All of us even my older kids were so excited that she can walk. Hope everyone has a great month!!!

justgirls3 - Wednesday, 16 Jan
thank you Jackie!! we

jackie-1st-time-mom - Thursday, 10 Jan
Congratulations Justgirls!!

justgirls3 - Tuesday, 8 Jan
3BAGS- thank you for checking in on me. believe it i just had her yesterday at 38 weeks little miss Qveyah is exactly 10 months old too!! It was funny when we realized it to!! She is a BIG SISTER!!! but the most important thing is now i can roll on the floor and play with her with no baby belly. I cant wait to get home and get better so that I can!!! And yes my baby is a healthy little girl Tahzanee Karliza weighing in at 7.6 and 20 in a half inches long!!! Qveyah has not meet her but has seen her on skype on the computer but i am well assure that she doesnt even know what i was holding lol!!!

threebagsfool - Tuesday, 8 Jan
Sounds like the holidays were great for everyone! Justgirls- have you picked a name for your newest? She must be due any day now! Jackie- I got Anastasia one of those elephant things. It has a fan that turns on and shoots the ball out of the nose. She likes playing with it until I turn it on. She is really afraid of fan sounds and the vacuum, so she crawls away from it and tries to hide. I guess we will try it again when she is a little older. Christmas went really well, she enjoyed opening her presents and playing with the paper, but by the end of the day she was getting the hang of the presents being inside. She was sick for about two weeks, and that with teething, she hasn't been herself since Thanksgiving. She is finally all the way better now, which is great! We are starting to gradually wean, one feeding out a day for a week. She doesn't seem to notice too much. She nurses about 6 or 7 times a day, so she could really use cutting back.

strongmama03 - Monday, 7 Jan
Thanks Michelle.

MichelleMc(pink!) - Sunday, 6 Jan
Strongmama: separation anxiety can start around this age, so I'm thinking that's probably normal, especially with her wanting your comfort since she's teething. :)

jackie-1st-time-mom - Friday, 4 Jan
Brooke is 10 months today!!! Brooke still does 3 bottles a day...two 6 ounce bottles and a 7 ounce bottle. The doctor wants her to still have at least 17 ounces a day. She drinks it all so no problem. Justgirls- good luck to you! So exciting!!

justgirls3 - Monday, 31 Dec
well i didnt post in the 9 months i dont think. so much has been going on and plus wasnt able to make it to Qveyah's appointment!! well she has been taking steps and well its about 2 bottles a day and she doesnt even drink them all. she is so in love with eating. no one eating in this house is safe to eat with her around lol!!! she has oatmeal with a different kind of fruit every morning and then some lunch and a fruit cup for a snack and then what ever we eat at super!!! she is still on the pacifer and i dont mind as long as she is off by the age of one!!! and for those who might not know i am due in 21 days can not wait to have this baby!! i am beyound tired of running around my 10 month old lol. plus i cant wait to play with her with no baby in my belly!!! EVERYONE HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR!!!

strongmama03 - Sunday, 30 Dec
Question.. my daughter is 10 months and has never played shy or really cared about being away from me... but now she seems to not want anything but me. She dosn't want her toys or other people, just for me to hold her and give her 100% attention while she sucks her thumb and cuddles... I know she's teething and has her first tooth about to pop but is this normal?

rls-lovemyfourbabies - Wednesday, 5 Dec
Seb can walk and wave, he says mama and abbiba (tabitha his big sister), he doesn't roll balls, makes no recognisable gestures etc etc. he likes to play peek a bio and to clamber all over me, not much interest in toys, just people (and TV dibbers to chew!).

MichelleMc(pink!) - Friday, 30 Nov
Oh, and she DOES pull herself up so she's standing while holding onto something, but doesn't walk along what she's holding on to after doing so. She also doesn't understand 'No', she would not know where a part of her body is if I asked her, and if given a spoon, she just chews on it (though sometimes if I'm spoon-feeding her and it's something she really likes, she will grab the spoon and pull it to her mouth. She doesn't close her mouth over the spoon super neatly, either.

MichelleMc(pink!) - Friday, 30 Nov
Ladies, are your 10 month olds doing all the things this page says they should be? My DD is 10 months today, and is crawling and has just started waving bye bye (but won't always do it), but she does not walk while holding furniture, say any words, act like she likes it when we applaud her, or react if we raise our voices. I haven't tried rolling a ball with her or letting her scribble, but I can't imagine her being able to do either yet. We've done a little peek-a-boo and pat-a-cake with her (not a lot), and she doesn't do it back, either. Does it sound like my DD is behind?

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keeganandbabygirl**PINK** - Tuesday, 28 Aug
Cynthia we do tell him why he cant do whatever it is he is doing. i know hes testing us i just dont know how to make sure he doesnt keep this temper as he gets older. ha. its super cute though for now...i cant belive hes going to be a year old in lik e 6 weeks its nuts. hes walking like a maniac and can say Daddy and Doggy and momma only when hes sad ha. so amazing.

finlin29 - Friday, 24 Aug
Hi ladies i have a question im going back to work next month and i am breastfeeding her till now but i want to stop and start giving milk( not formula) what kind of milk should i give?... im from Canada please give me some idea ... thanks

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