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Your baby is getting ready to take his first steps! He can stand on his own and if you hold onto his hands, he will walk. He does a good job of bending, squatting, stooping and getting back to a standing position. You might be able to tell if he is going to be right or lefthanded.

Your baby knows that people and objects have names. Expand her vocabulary by continuing to read, sing and talk to her. If you laugh at something your baby does, she will do it again. She will imitate everything that you do. She sees an expression on your face and will mimic it. She is learning what animals and people do. If she sees a cat ot dog, she will meow and bark. If your baby knows that you are dissapointed or upset with her, she will hide from you.

Each baby is different and develops at different paces. Just because your first child walked at 11 months, does not mean this child will. If you are concerned about your child's development, speak to his doctor. Remember that the more you interact and guide him, the more he will develop. If your baby gets frustrated when trying to do something new, don't push him. This will cause him to get frustrated and he will lose self confidence.

Show your child what you expect out of him. Realistic expectations will help your child follow directions better. She is still learning what is acceptable and what is not, and it is your job to guide her. Avoiding situations where you have to constantly redirect your baby will make it easier on you and him both. Love, attention and affection are all part of effective discipline. Always remember to praise your child when you see her being appropriate.

Toys that are good for this age are: books, push toys, ride on toys, balls, stacking rings, simple puzzles, telephones, puppets, large cars and trucks, shape boxes, pegboards and pegs, linking toys, large blocks, toys with textures, noisy toys, dolls and stuffed animals. Pretend play toys are also appropriate. Dress up clothes, hats and pretend foods are all good for little learners.

Your child is probably eating a wide variety of foods at this point. She is also getting better control of using a spoon, although alot still ends up in the floor. Although she is still nursing or being bottle-fed formula, she should be drinking juice or water from a cup. Remember to offer her a wide variety of nutritional foods. Establishing healthy eating habits now will go along ways in the future.

Developmental Milestones 11 Months Old

Physical

• Walks well by holding onto furniture
• Some babies take their first steps and some are walking well, while others will wait a bit longer
• Can stand alone

Intellectual

• Continues to learn about language and makes new sounds
• Uses pincer grasp well and can feed himself finger foods well
• Drinks well from a cup
• Says some one syllable words
• May say some two syllable words
• Enjoys outdoor activities
• Figures out how to get things he wants
• Is interested in colors and shapes
• Can scribble

Emotional

• Talk to you in conversational gibberish and wants you to respond
• Likes your applause
• Begins to test authority more
• Does not like to be held as much-she wants to play and explore

Age Appropriate Toys

• Crayons and paper for scribbling
• Colored and textured toys
• Toys with shapes
• Toys to bang
• Talking toys
• Push toys
• Some babies like ride on toys
• Blocks and stacking toys
• Bath toys
• Toys that require pretend play
• Toys that offer instant gratification
• Pop up toys
• Sorting toys

Comments:

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britta06 - Sunday, 16 Oct
Rjbrown- YES! My hair is exactly like that! It's growing back right where the hair line starts, right at my forehead! Argh, glad I'm not alone though :) I use John Freidas- Secret Weapon, I believe is what it's called. Helps tame my hair done! I got my hair done last weekend for my friends wedding and the hair-dresser asked me if I lost a bunch of hair after pregnancy, becuase she could tell it growing back in different spots! haha, it's that bad!

spelfrey (Shauna) - Saturday, 15 Oct
Rjbrown, mine is the same way! My hair is stick straight but that hair that grew back at my temples is coarse and curly. It looks weird when I pull my hair back. Like fly away curls! Lol

bumpalumpa (julie) - Saturday, 15 Oct
my hair really thinned out after i had sophie but not with isobel. It took about 6 months to lose the fuzzy hair to be honest. I just tied it back when it was wet so it held down and wasnt as noticeable. it does get better. just wait it out and try not to stress about it because stress can increase hair loss. i didnt but maybel try some folic acid? thats good for hair and nail growth? :o)

memedawn - Wednesday, 12 Oct
Having sick kids is the worst! Avery has started to sound congested, so I hope she isn't coming down with something too. I hope your LO gets feeling better!

bumpalumpa (julie) - Tuesday, 11 Oct
oh my god! its 6.15am and ive been up since 5! isobel has had a virus for about 5 days now and is hardly sleeping at night. if she closes her eyes its for about an hour at a time at the most. im so tired. alans already at work and ijus cant wait for him to come home cos i want to go to bed. sophies still asleep but i dont know for how long with the way isobel keeps having screaming fits :o( its horrible. i hate it when my ladies are ill.

bumpalumpa (julie) - Monday, 10 Oct
weve got a blue cookie monster (from sesame street i think?) and you can feed it cookies that slip down into its backpack. were doing a birthday party too. should be fun. theres only 13 days between my girls birthdays so two parties in 13 days! oh my goodness lol! were gonna be busy!

sacredgift - Sunday, 9 Oct
I'm not sure either what to get my little girl for the big 'One', but I was thinking something of a keepsake nature, like a pewter photo frame w/a special photo of the two of us, etc. She has so many toys and clothes and her grandparents and aunts will spoil her; her older sister got a radio flyer wagon back in June for her birthday, which was a great gift.

numba3 - Friday, 7 Oct
Well It has been such a long time since I have been in to say hi. Aiden will be 1 in 2 weeks and I am planing a little birthday party for him. Wow at how many Mums are expecting again. I don't think there will be anymore for me, but hey you never know what the future brings. I didn't think that I would have anymore after my girls but I have Aiden so you never know. I wanted to pop in and Say a big early/late happy birthday to all the Bubs.

britta06 - Monday, 3 Oct
For Bennetts first birthday, we are giving him books, Elefun ball popper (toy), and a sippy cup with his name on it! I had to order it online because his name isnn't common enough to just stumble upon one. So I'm hoping it turns out okay. Not sure what else to get him, maybe that will be it!

memedawn - Monday, 3 Oct
I have been planning my LO first birthday party too! I can't believe how big she is getting! What are you all getting your LO's for a first birthday present? I don't want to get her more clothes or toys, I want it to be special. I was thinking of getting her a wagon...I think she would like that!

britta06 - Monday, 3 Oct
Happy 11 months to my baby boy yesterday!! Planning his FIRST BIRTHDAY.... AH! My baby, isn't a 'baby' anymore.

scoob1977 - Wednesday, 28 Sep
hi guys...can't believe our little ones are nearly 1!!! anyway i have a problem....he hates the hoover (vaccuum)...literally screams when i put it on! any ideas how to get him over it???

kashsmommy - Monday, 26 Sep
I think it's a mix up of severe separation anxiety/change in nap schedule/teething! His poor little gums look like small, white mountains...he has 4 teeth but nothing else is breaking the skin. I sure wish they would just get out! He's been sleeping much better the past few days! Thank God!!!

jennifer dailey - Monday, 26 Sep
kashsmommy - my dd had gone through around 9months old and it lasted for about a month. She was sleeping well at night and took her one 2 hr nap a day around noon but then one day she became extremely clingy and would only nap in my arms during the day and woke up at night just like your child is. She'd stay up for hours screaming her head off at night, if it got real bad Id let her play while I layed on the floor with her and she'd be content but wouldnt want to go back to sleep for hours and she'd do this 2-3 times each night and when she did sleep she'd wake up crying once every 1/2 hr. It was a bad month for both of us, me being pregnant and her teething. Thats all it was for her, she was teething 4 top teeth. After a month of teething they started popping through and she went back to her regular sleeping schedule and Ive now even gotten her to take an extra small nap during the day. My older two dd's didnt get their top teeth until they were over a yr old so we never experienced anything like that before, theres a first for everything. I hope you are getting more sleep this week!

spelfrey (Shauna) - Monday, 26 Sep
My baby girl is 11 months old today!! In a month she will be 1 years old. Too crazy.

kashsmommy - Monday, 26 Sep
Hi ladies. Moving to 12 months on Wednesday but glad y'all are doing well! My sons party is this coming Saturday and we're doing the very hungry caterpillar...I made all of the decorations and posted pics if anyone is interested...just have flip a few pages back!

lipiello - Sunday, 25 Sep
Kaiya will be 11 months on Tuesday! is anyone planning their first birthday part yet? If so what are you doing? anyways my baby took her first steps at 9 months and she doesn't even attempt to crawl anymore, and i love it! she is getting so big she now loves bed time and actually says na na when she wants to go to sleep she is still sleeping in her own bed and doing great! how all is well:)

memedawn - Sunday, 25 Sep
I can't believe my Avery will be 11 months tomorrow! I also can't imagine being pregnant again. You ladies are defintily super moms! I am still breast feeding and have not gotten my period yet, so probably couldn't get pregnant again yet anyways (although I have heard it is possible!)

216exclusive(BLUE) - Sunday, 25 Sep
Thanks kathleen

kathleen112 - Saturday, 24 Sep
Congrats exclusive!! I can't believe how many women from our group are preggo again!!

216exclusive(BLUE) - Saturday, 24 Sep
Hey ladies it's been a long while. Well Giana will be one in 5 days! She still isn't 'walking' but she's trying! I am 19 weeks preggo now and doing well. It's a boy! I have to take time to read a few posts to get caught back up. You ladies are busy talkers on here.

memedawn - Thursday, 22 Sep
My LO has been taking only one nap a day at daycare, usually in the morning from like 9:30 - 11:00 or something. I wish they would try harder to make her take a second nap in the afternoon since she is usually cranky when I go to pick her up and I only have so much time with her in the evening! I don't want her to be cranky!

kashsmommy - Thursday, 22 Sep
Omg!!! I am so exhausted that I could cry or puke or domething! Idk at this point! Cole again woke up at 11pm, got him back to sleep then I didn't fall asleep until around 2:30 am(anticipating a wake up I suppose) then he woke up again at 4:45 am!!! I put him in bed with us and that lead to lots of kicking and squirming so I put him back in his bed to let him CIO and 30 minutes later he's still screaming his head off! So now I've been rocking him for 30 minutes and I'm seeing zero signs that he's going back to sleep!!! Here it is 6am now and I'm writing to you ladies when I'm really wishing I was asleep!!! I read somewhere that when babies first start to act like they only want one nap that it's too soon and this could lead to very interrupted overnight sleep. They basically say to keep your LO on a 2 nap schedule but shorten the naps by 15-30 minutes! Guess what I'm trying tomorrow?!?!?!

cupcake83 - Wednesday, 21 Sep
You're right Kash, they dream the days events so your theory could be correct. Bless his little heart.

kashsmommy - Tuesday, 20 Sep
Ok, maybe nightmare was the wrong word...what I meant by that was bad dream. From what I understand, babies dream about things they did and saw that day. And that, since he's been so clingy, when people(lately I've only allowed my parents to) try to hold him he starts freaking out and they assume he'll calm down in a minute or if they walk away and it makes Cole even more frantic in his efforts to try to get back to me. It does seem to be a fairly traumatizing experience for him and I'm wondering if maybe in his dreams those scenarios are reloading and he gets scared causing him to wake up? Like I said, I know that probably sound pretty crazy lol, but his actions when he wakes up are the same as if they were actually going on right now. Idk what else to think...I just find it a little strange that it only seems to happen on days when others try to hold him and that he wakes up at almost the exact same time on every one of the nights that he wakes up screaming.

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