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The second year of life has alot in store for your toddler. He is moving from babyhood to childhood. It is important to give your child the love, support, patience, encouragement and guidance that he needs. Toddlers are a challenge and at times, he may test your patience. Continue to set rules and enforce them. Soon your child will learn his limits.

You might notice that your child has developed new fears. This is normal and should pass when she sees that there is really nothing to be afraid of. Some children are afraid of separation, change, inanimate obects, animals and imaginary creatures. If you subjected your child to these types of objects from a young age, she may not show fear. Respect her fears and gently tell her there is nothing to be afraid of.

Because your baby is probably standing and walking well, he does not like any type of restraint. Occasionally, there are times that he may need to be in a playpen for safety. Your baby is beginning to do things for attention and likes when you clap or acknowledge her cuteness. At this point, she is beginning to adjust to babysitters but she is still afraid of strangers. She will empty the contents out of anything that you allow her to. She likes to take socks out of drawers, pots out of cabinets, etc. It is very important that you have childproofed your home and made a safe place for your toddler to explore.

Language skills are developing and he will begin saying simple words. Sometimes he gets frustrated if he can not find the words to say. Your child will respond to his name and he will look in the right direction when you ask him where an object is. He has begun to understand the names of objects, foods, people and animals. You might notice that he has a favorite book and will want you to read it over and over.

Your child does like to play alone sometimes, but she really likes to play with you. She likes to hide and have you find her. Some of her favorite toys are push and pull toys, simple ride on toys, pretend play, building materials, crayons and paper, cars and trucks, balls and other bright objects. Providing her a variety of educational toys will encourage her learning. Help her build towers and play imitation games with her.

Sometimes it is hard for babies to give up the bottle or breast. Weaning from the breast or bottle should be done slowly. Many babies want to nurse or drink from a bottle before bed and when they wake up. Do not allow your child to take a bottle or cup to bed with her. By now, she can drink whole milk. Offer her milk in a cup and encourage her to drink from it. She will drink less milk as she is eating more foods. Soon your child will forget about the breast or bottle. Don't offer it if she has moved on.

Developmental Milestones - 13 Months

Physical

• Climbs onto a low step
• Can stand alone
• May walk well
• Puts objects away

Intellectual

• Can hug and kiss
• Likes when people are near
• Enjoys praise and attention
• Is learning simple words
• Can respond when her name is called
• Waves bye bye

Emotional

• Shy with strangers
• Likes other children
• Will adjust to familiar faces

Age Appropriate Toys

• Ride-on toys
• Push toys
• Puppets
• Books
• Balls
• Dolls
• Blocks
• Chunky crayons and paper
• Large trucks/cars
• Nesting cup

Comments:

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Luv2Bamama - Friday, 1 Apr
Karen—I’m sure your son will be an amazing little man…kids adapt pretty well to parents with limitations, and quite frankly, I think it does them some good. It helps them to become more compassionate individuals. On another note; anyone else’s children starting the “terrible twos” early. If things don’t go my daughter’s way and she gets frustrated, she is doing the traditional screaming/crying and flailing and stomping her feet etc. She did it when I picked her up from daycare the other day and she wanted to keep playing, but I was ready to leave…my daycare lady had a few comments, one being that “glad she doesn’t do that for me”, and the other was “wow, she shouldn’t be doing that for at least a few more months!”. I always knew my daughter was advanced :)

beebee16 - Thursday, 31 Mar
Well the good news is we seem to have got through the sleeping difficulties!!! Whenever Caitlin cries in the night i go to her and settle her, which can sometimes take an hour.....or sometimes all night! One night last week i didn't go to her when she cried & eventually she stopped. Over the last week the night time crying has gradually got less until last night when she didn't cry at all. I have put a couple of books in her cot which she sits and 'reads' if she does wake up early. Twice this week i've woken up on my own (and had a lie in!!) & when i've gone to check on Caitlin she's just been sitting quietly in her cot reading her books. Such a good girl x

Luv2Bamama - Tuesday, 29 Mar
Karen-I guess I am one of the many who have not heard of CMT. I am so sorry that there is no “cure” for it, but glad to hear that you are not dwelling on the issue. I know it is very hard having limitations on what you can do as a parent, but sadly, I am relieved to know I’m not the only parent out there living with a disabling disease! I am very fortunate with my MS that it hasn’t changed the quality of my life at this point. MS is an autoimmune disorder where your body sees the myelin (the protective fatty layer around the nerves in your brain) as the enemy so it attacks the myelin and exposes the nerve so the signals don’t get transferred from the brain to your body properly. Depending on what part of the brain is being attacked, that will be the symptoms you see, which is why people are affected by the disease so differently. For me, I have numbness on the entire right side of my body. Rub your finger along your bare skin on your arm…now rub your finger over the same spot but have your shirt sleeve pulled down. While you can feel it, the sensation is distorted—so that is what the right side of my body feels like all the time. I also have muscle weakness and muscle tremors if I do too much manual labor. I’ve just learned to listen to my body and slow down when I start seeing signs that I’m fatigued. I also have problems with my eyesight in my right eye because the myelin surrounding the optic nerve was attacked and left me blind in that eye for 3-4 months, but as the myelin rebuilt itself I regained most of the sight in that eye. Despite these few disturbances, I am so lucky that at this point I am able to be a “normal” parent and be very active in my daughter’s life. I can hold her, cuddle with her, take walks with her etc. While there is no “cure” either for MS, they have medications that help prevent other attacks, although I’ve been off my meds for almost two years since you can’t take them while pregnant or nursing. My husband and I thought long and hard about having children because I never want to be a burden to anyone. We decided that regardless of how my disease progresses, we know our children will always feel loved and supported by us, and that is the only real thing that matters in life!

Samirah - Tuesday, 29 Mar
i know im not in this category but can you please vote for my son?? Hi all, please vote for my son i entered him into a competition... the link is http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=291808665726 before you can 'vote' you have to like riverside mall page, then go to his picture the number of his pic is 0395 and like his pic or comment on it to vote, he is the lil baby with a t-shirt (daddys team) category 0-6months...please support my baby and i, thank you in advance! also if you not sure which baby it is go on my fb page Samantharabie01@webmail.co.za and see my latest wall comments i have the pic on my wall.. tx all

Luv2Bamama - Monday, 28 Mar
Colleen is still in her rear facing car seat only because she hasn’t even met the 20 lb weight requirement yet, so we will likely keep her rear facing for a bit longer. We were given two very nice, barely used car seats from our friends, so we will use those when she is a bit heavier. Maybe when we decide to have baby #2 we will get a convertible car seat that is more in line with the newest guidelines. @ Karen; what issue do you have that causes numbness? Is it MS? I’m curious because I have MS and am always interested in meeting other moms out there in the same boat!

gretch - Friday, 25 Mar
Rory will face front from now on. I am not turning him around. I figure it is important that I feel like a safer driver. I worried when I could not see him and he cried or threw stuff. Now I am not so distracted. He is 24 pounds and loves his new seat and seeing the world.

Luv2Bamama - Thursday, 24 Mar
In case you haven't seen this, the AAP issued new car seat guidelines. http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/carseat2011.htm

beebee16 - Thursday, 24 Mar
Cailtin has turned into the devil!! I swear! Tantrums galore in my house at the moment, over anything & everything. You wouldn't think it to look at her, with her angelic looking face & big blue eyes.....but she is a demon!! lol. And is sooooo loud when she's having a tantrum, the neighbours must wonder whats going on. Please, please, please let it be a phase.....& one that she gets over very quickley!!

cathylynn00 - Wednesday, 23 Mar
It is interesting to read all about the differences in bed times! I dont get home from work until 4:30 pm so my daughters bed time is around 9:00...sometimes later...but she goes down really easy ~ I hand her a bottle and she is out about 10 min. later...she sleeps through the night until between 8:00-9:00 in the morning and then she naps everyday from about 12:30-3:30. I guess we kind of put her on this schedule so my husband and I can spend time with her after work...my other daughter is and has always been on the same schedule as well. They are both great sleepers :)

Luv2Bamama - Tuesday, 22 Mar
So my daughter has joined the ranks of the “early risers” too. I am wondering if it has something to do with the time change? She started getting up around 5:30/5:45 am. You can’t really blame the kid since at that point she has already been asleep for 11.5 hrs or so, but I know it is making my husband’s morning a little more complex since he is the one to get up with her and get her ready for daycare (I start work at 6 am). I guess we will just take it in stride. The only consistent thing about kids is their ability to shake things up!

beebee16 - Monday, 21 Mar
lillhill - i think the issue karen was having, as i was too, was that emmett was overtired when he went to bed. Caitlin has been the same and has been waking around 4 am for a couple of weeks. I took karens advice on this and put her to bed earlier & she slept til 5.30. In her cot she has a couple of bears & her snuggly blanket and also a couple of books, i've heard her wake early a couple of times and she'll talk to herself for a bit and fall back to sleep 'reading' a book. Its so cute. She had her first fall outside in the garden at the weekend, and has a little graze on her head where she fell.....the first of many i think!!

gretch - Monday, 21 Mar
IKEA has foods, fruits, soft toys for kids that go with a cooker/stove set. The foods are made of material/cloth. I put a basket of food in Rory's crib so he has something to playwith when he wakes up and he has to toss about 12 little things out of the crib before he runs out. That's is why I canned the 'lovey' thing. Rory needs volume now. The tossing out of the crib was driving me nuts. I also leave acoupel of pacifiers in the crib. He only uses them at night but if he flings one out he has another. Rarely do both get flung.

beebee16 - Saturday, 19 Mar
Karen - i tried putting Caitlin to bed 15 mins earlier last night. She started crying at 3 but soon stopped and went back to sleep. And then woke up at 5.30!!! I'm hoping it wasn't just a one off & that she'll start to sleep longer again. Thanks for the advice x

sassyscissors(Tracy) - Saturday, 19 Mar
Will you guys do me a favour? I am from month 9 and have entered my son in a baby contest. Will you vote? Its takes only a minute of your time and its free. We would greatly appreciate any help! Its at www.niagarababy.ca First register at the site (this takes less than a minute), then click the 'view the entries' link. My son is the little boy having a bath in the giant yellow duck. The picture is labelled 'NicholasDucky'. Click his picture, then underneath it, click Vote. Thats it! Thanks very much for your time and help! Have fun with your own babies!

Luv2Bamama - Friday, 18 Mar
Don’t get me started on MIL’s…I have a very rough time with mine. She is my husband’s step mom (his biological mom passed away when he was a kid). My MIL is a liar, manipulative, and I don’t trust her with any ounce of my being! I use to question my husband (and my father in law) when they would talk about her, but after 5 years of first hand experience, I believe them and agree 100%. I have NO idea why my father in law continues to be married to her when HE doesn’t even trust his spouse. She lies about STUPID things, and recently lied about a BIG one. She gets very defensive if you try to call her out on things when you catch her in a lie. For example, she will buy the baby a new outfit and say “You don’t need to worry about washing it; I’ve already washed and ironed it” when she leaves, I then pull the price tags off…Why bother, who cares if it has been laundered or not? She has a deadbeat son who is in and out of jail. The deadbeat’s girlfriend just had a baby about 7 weeks ago. She is always defending her son, and bailing him out of jail and saying that he has done nothing wrong and the cops are just picking on him. BTW, since he was 15, I think he has spent about 12 years total in jail. He is almost 33 now. My husband and I have already decided that we do not want our daughter around him, and refuse to bring her to any family gatherings where this guy is present. The BIGGIE my MIL lied to us about is about her new grandbaby. She said that the girlfriend abandoned the child with her son and he is the only person raising it…which of course my husband and I spent sleepless nights talking about adopting, foster care, etc. to help this poor innocent baby brought into a world of craziness. Turns out the baby’s mother NEVER left it! Not that we trust the girlfriend either, but at this point social services can’t do anything. And my MIL thinks I’m going to leave my daughter in her care?! Heck NO! My daughter will NEVER be alone with her. The woman even had the NERVE to invite her son to our daughter’s 1st birthday, but he “wasn’t able to make it”. Lord help me if he would have shown up! That was not acceptable; he didn’t get an invite for a reason! I have often thought of confronting her on many issues, but choose to keep my mouth closed. I just choose to live my life, and keep my daughter away from her craziness. My husband and I agreed that we can just tag team family gatherings…one will stay at home because the “baby is sick” and the other can go and represent the family. That way we are “involved”, but it doesn’t put our daughter in the line of fire. We also invite them to our home (where we have control) for dinners on occasion so they can see their grand-daughter while she is young, but as she starts getting older and lied to, I will likely put the kibosh on those invites too. Sorry for my long rant, but it is so hard not to have family we can rely on near by! It stinks.

resie - Thursday, 17 Mar
beebee16- It's not just mil ,sometimes it's your mother...lol my mom usually babys meleah no matter what,she always reminds me it's my job to correct ,and her job to spoil,,and when i fuss she says one day when you are a grandma ,then come talk to me... so now i just humor her,,, because i know who's really in charge ME.

beebee16 - Thursday, 17 Mar
Caitlin had a major tantrum while we were in town today, she hates being in her buggy....the little monkey loves walking so much she wants to walk everywhere. Not always possible though! I've bought her a little backpack with a strap on it so i can let her walk more. Anyway when she was screaming the place down (and everyone was staring because i wasn't picking her up and comforting her - i'm such an evil mummy!! lol) i spotted that another 2 eye teeth had cut. I can see an end in sight as far as teething goes......only 5 more teeth to go!! Yay!!! She is really testing me at the moment with the tantrums, but i refuse to give into her and let her have her own way - she needs to understand that she is not the boss - I AM!! I think she is starting to realise that i am not going to give her what she wants when she screams for it. Does anyone else have a problem with MIL's being all sympathetic with their LO's when trying to discipline them? In the last week its happened twice when we've taken Caitlin to see her grandma. The first instance i told her off for smacking people in the face and she started crying like i'd beaten her or something (when all i said was 'its naughty to smack people'!!). Anyway while she was crying and i was explaining to her that it was wrong my MIL kept saying to her 'Aah, whats wrong Caitlin, whats mummy doing to you'. I wanted to scream!! She did exactly the same today. I said (through gritted teeth!) 'don't give her sympathy when she's being told off, it doesn't help when i'm trying to discipline her'. It got me so angry, i want my daughter to know the difference between right and wrong & not to think that mummys nasty shouting at me when grandma's all nice to me (does that bit make sense?). Thats it - rant over!! x

beebee16 - Tuesday, 15 Mar
Oh i really don't know what is up with Caitlin at the moment, she will not sleep past 4.30 in the morning. I don't know if its because of the teething, the canines are really giving her grief. She has also started screaming (and i mean SCREAMING!!!) whenever i leave the room, even if her daddy is with her. She'll fight to get to the saftey gate and then scream non stop for me. If she's in the room on her own when i go into the other room she'll scream for about 30 seconds and then busy herself with some toys until i return (she's only ever left for a couple of minutes at a time). She has turned into a proper little madam, throwing tantrums all the time. She has gone off food almost completely (which again i have put down to teething - you don't really feel like eating when you have a toothache do you?). I'm keeping my fingers crossed that all this is just a phase & that she'll grow out of it soon x

gretch - Monday, 14 Mar
Rory has developed a fear of loud noises. Loud cars, the washing machine in spin cycle, etc. He actually flings himself on the ground and lays his head to the side. As if he is laying down to go to sleep. I think he thinks he is invisible. He will fling himself on the sidewalk when it's a car. It is hysterical if not a little disconcerting. He will also comeup to me or my husband and cling to legs if it is a noise that is concerning but does not merit flinging himself to the floor. He is a bit shy. Very observant.

BabySaunders - Sunday, 13 Mar
I haven't posted all these months with you guys, but I just came back on the site (I did my entire pregnancy here). My son Michael has 14 teeth now and I have to agree. The eye teeth are the worst! I've never seen so much drool in my life. He also is refusing to eat, stopped nursing :(, and has bitten his own hand pretty severely. I don't know how to make him stop biting his hand. No blood yet, but I'm just waiting. He also cries out in the middle of the night, but thankfully goes back to sleep. Poor babies! Hope it's over soon.

beebee16 - Thursday, 10 Mar
How many teeth has everyone's LO's got? Caitlin has just cut her first canine (she's got 13 teeth now) and i can see another just about to cut too. You would think that, because canine teeth are quite pointy, they would cut with little or no problem. How wrong was i to think that!! They have caused the most discomfort, the most dribble, a rash from dribbling (that she's never had before), she's been off her food and also the most sleepless nights we've ever had. I just keep thinking we're nearly there....7 teeth to go & thats teething over and done with!!! Yay! x

beebee16 - Wednesday, 9 Mar
Just recently Caitlin has started to spit food out, she'll chew it up a bit then spit it out. I think its an attention thing as she laughs everytime she does it, tonight at dinner i didn't even acknowledge that she had done it. I just gave her a very straight, blank look. After a couple of times she realised i wasn't bothered & gave up and carried on eating properly. Has anyone else's LO's done anything like this?

mugs - Friday, 4 Mar
Ajoke-your post made me giggle...not the croup part ( Nora's got it too and it's just terrible) but the husband part...my husband had a fever, the chills, etc. The other night and between moans while laying on the couch, he took his temperature about 18 times in an hour! I was like, seriously?! Men are such babies when they're sick!

ajoke - Friday, 4 Mar
Poor little guy has came down with croup! The only thing that I can think that is worse that a sick baby is a sick husband...sure in the heck hope that doesn't happen!

beebee16 - Thursday, 3 Mar
Caitlin is changing so much everyday now, she can be a little madam at times but is beginning to know who's the boss (and it ain't her!! lol). She's got 13 teeth now and is walking more than she crawls, the other night she spent about 10 minutes walking from one settee to the other & back.....over and over again. Everytime she did it she was squealing & laughing!! She has a book that she loves, each page has about 15 small pictures on. On the last page is a picture of 'mummy' so when she opened it at this page i asked her where mummy was and she pointed at the right picture and said what sounded like 'there'. We've been looking at this book loads over the past few days & she has learnt the pictures of dog, pig, sheep, mummy, girl, car & each time i ask her where any of them are she points to the right picture and says 'there' again. She's so clever!!

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