Baby's daily routine: tenth month

Approximate daily routine for a 10 month old child

Throughout the 10th month of life, the baby continues to walk and sleep twice a day. The number of feedings also does not change - the child eats 5 times a day. It is important to maintain a strict, established feeding and sleep schedule, as well as to exercise the baby as much as possible physically. In case of any deviations, the routine should be adjusted immediately.

Approximate daily routine for a child: Komarovsky

A well-known pediatrician today is confident that up to six months the baby’s diet should be free. Evgeniy Olegovich does not recommend that mothers, as was before, maintain intervals between feedings of either two or three hours. Such interruptions can only harm the child and his mother and interfere with breastfeeding. Therefore, the pediatrician recommends adhering to a free breastfeeding schedule for up to 6 months if the child is on it. Accordingly, there is no need to talk about a clear daily routine. After all, the baby almost always falls asleep at the breast and wakes up hungry.

Already from six months (for some from 5, for others from 7 months), an approximate life schedule for mother and baby gradually emerges, in which there are two periods of daytime sleep. This is the child's pre-lunch rest, and the afternoon rest for one and a half to two hours. The pediatrician emphasizes approximateness, since there are children who can sleep for three hours during the day, and there are those who continue to sleep 4-5 times a day for 40 minutes or an hour. However, they are completely healthy. As for the nutrition of children from 6 to 12 months, it should also improve. Breakfast, lunch, dinner plus two complementary foods are required. They are called second breakfast and afternoon tea.

The sleep requirement of babies up to 12 months is 10-12 hours. But this only applies to healthy children, and if the child is sick or overtired, then he can sleep longer. At this age, the pediatrician advises walking with the child twice a day. These are the morning hours, before lunch, and also an hour or two before bedtime.

Nutrition

The intervals between feedings for babies in the tenth month are 4 hours, and they are no longer as dependent on sleep as they were in the first six months. The baby can wake up and calmly do gymnastics until it is time to eat. Portions during feeding gradually increase, and for lunch the baby can eat two dishes - soup and a side dish with yolk, meat or fish.

1. The “consistency” of food gradually changes, the baby needs to be prepared for the adult table. Instead of vegetable puree, offer your baby a finely chopped stew, and meat purees can be replaced with soufflé or meatballs.
2. The volume of lactation in mothers is gradually decreasing, so the last evening breastfeeding before bedtime is replaced with kefir. If the baby asks for the breast in the evening, do not refuse him, mother’s milk is very useful for digestion, in addition, traditional contact with the mother before bedtime will calm the baby. But feeding should remain just that: feeding - you cannot allow the baby to fall asleep with the breast in his mouth.
3. The crackers that you gave to the baby along with vegetable puree and soup can be gradually replaced with pieces of yesterday's bread.
4. Because growing teeth need to be active, give your child something to bite on every day. To train the jaws and strengthen chewing skills, offer your baby pieces of peeled apple.
5. The child must definitely eat all the recommended foods, since each of them has its own unique nutritional value. If your baby doesn’t like a particular vegetable or fruit, discreetly mix it into your baby’s favorite dishes, gradually increasing its percentage in the serving.

Child nutrition

The child's diet should be varied and must include meat, fish dishes, fruit and vegetable purees. Also, nutrition should be balanced and contain sufficient amounts of vitamins and minerals. The baby's diet still includes breast milk or formula. You need to feed 5 times a day.

You can include new dishes in the menu of a 10-month-old child - once a week, porridge is replaced with milk noodles or boiled noodles. To develop the chewing reflex, you can give your baby to chew crackers, small pieces of soft fruits and vegetables.

Meat and fish are served to the child in the form of meatballs, meatballs, and cutlets. You can also grind boiled fish or meat in a blender and add it to vegetable puree. From time to time, the baby is given cottage cheese in the form of a casserole. Sometimes puree can be replaced with pureed raw vegetables and fruits (carrots and apples). Almost all fruits can be given, except grapes and citrus fruits.

Dream

The intervals between episodes of daytime sleep are about 4 hours. If you adhere to a strict schedule, then as the time for rest approaches, the baby’s body will begin to give signals about this. The baby will yawn and rub his eyes.

Sometimes you may experience slight disruptions in your sleep patterns. The child may want to sleep ahead of time due to the fact that the period of wakefulness was very active and full of impressions. In such cases, it is better to take into account the body's signals that require rest and sleep, and put the baby to bed.

Also, the baby may sleep longer during the day due to the fact that it is cloudy outside or because he moved a lot before going to bed. If a child relaxes outdoors or outside the city, he may also experience unusually long sleep. Then it is better to wait 10-15 minutes, and if the baby does not wake up, you should gently wake him up.

A baby's nighttime sleep in the tenth month lasts from 8 to 10 hours. During this period, the baby’s body rests, and the brain processes the information received during the day and the skills it has mastered. That is why sound and uninterrupted sleep is very important for a child.

Child's daily routine by month

The daily routine of a newborn and a one-year-old baby is very different from each other. After all, a newborn sleeps almost 20 hours a day. Before the age of one month, you shouldn’t even try to accustom your baby to a routine, because he adapts to a completely different environment, air, and nutrition.

By the age of three months we can already talk about the formation of a regime. At this age, the baby sleeps 16-17 hours. Of these, 10 occur during sleep at night, and the rest during 3-4 periods of sleep during the day. They usually last an hour and a half. Feedings are also becoming periodic, and the gap between them is 3 hours. In this case, the baby may wake up once or twice at night to feed.

Children under 6 months sleep even less - 13-15 hours a day due to a decrease in the period of night sleep. The time between feedings increases. Typically this is five meals a day and one meal at night. A six-month-old baby sleeps at night for 6-7 hours without waking up. And mom is already feeling better. Daytime sleep can be two or three times a day. Usually at 6 months there are two periods of daytime sleep.

From 6 to 9 months, a child can easily stay awake for 3 hours; his daytime sleep is two times a day, lasting an hour or two. The number of feedings during this age period is 4-5 with an interval of 4 hours. Many children of this age already refuse night feeding and sleep peacefully throughout the night. But some mothers still have to wait for this and still feed the baby once at night.

At 9-12 months the child is almost an adult. He sleeps twice a day (some people get by with a long, one-time afternoon nap). The period of his daily activity can be 3.5 hours, and if he is interested in something, then 4. The diet for up to a year is 4-5 times a day.

Pediatricians emphasize that you should always go for walks with children under one year old. Temperatures of -10 degrees Celsius are considered quite normal for walking. After all, today strollers are equipped in such a way that wind, snow, drafts and cold do not threaten children. Until the age of three months, the baby should be in the fresh air for at least an hour a day. The best sleep is sleeping outside, in the fresh air. And young mothers should not worry about the fact that the child sleeps a lot on the street during the day. This does not mean at all that the baby will not sleep at night. On the contrary, the amount of fresh air has a beneficial effect on night sleep.

Walks

1. Continue to walk with your baby every day, setting aside two periods of time during the day for walking.
2. In summer, in general, walks should last at least 5 hours; in winter, they can be reduced to 4 hours.
3. A ten-month-old baby's need to communicate with his peers increases. Take your child for walks on playgrounds, ride him on carousels with other kids. In the summer, a baby can sit in the sandbox, watching children play and repeating their actions.

Hygiene

Hygiene procedures in the tenth month remain the same: morning washing, brushing teeth and combing, washing during the day and exciting evening bathing.

A ten-month-old baby can already be gradually potty trained. Of course, he will be able to “walk” consciously only at the age of 2-2.5 years, when the corresponding mechanisms in his body have matured. While the child does not know how to unravel the signals of the systems and restrain the urge to urinate and defecate, so you will have to “seize the moment.”

• Place your child on the potty after waking up and after eating;
• if the child becomes capricious, he must be removed from the potty so that the baby does not develop a persistent dislike for this important accessory;
• It is not recommended for a baby to sit on the potty for longer than 10 minutes;
• while on the potty, the child should be occupied only with the process for which you put him there; there should be no books or toys with the baby;
• If the baby still “did the job,” be sure to praise him.

Gymnastics and massage

Most children can already walk with support by the tenth month. At this stage, you should continue to strengthen the baby's muscles and train the vestibular system. It is advisable to conduct physical activity sessions twice a day, preferably after sleep.

It is recommended to add squats, bends and standing to the previous gymnastic complex. Encourage your baby to make these movements by placing a toy at the feet of a standing baby and asking him to take it. Exercises for getting up from a sitting position are very useful; Give the sitting baby your hand and pull him towards you, provoking him to take a vertical position.

The following activities are useful and effective for strengthening ligaments and muscles:

• circular rotation of handles;
• squats;
• flexion and extension of limbs;
• raising straightened legs.

A very important skill that you should teach your child in the tenth month of life is how to get off the couch correctly. Show your baby how to do this safely: lay him on his tummy and gently pull him, causing him to slide off the surface of the furniture onto the floor and stand on his feet. Practice this skill regularly until your baby gets off the couch confidently and without mistakes.

Communication and games

1. Your activities with your ten-month-old baby in your free time from sleep should be supplemented with speech games. The baby already consciously repeats certain syllables and can tell how which animal “talks.” You should play with your baby every day, acting out scenes with soft pet animals. Observing your behavior during class, the child will subsequently repeat it in games with peers.
2. Children can already say hello and goodbye; this skill can be practiced on large soft toys. Act out scenes as if a teddy bear comes to visit the child and then leaves. The baby should greet him and say goodbye verbally and with gestures. The child will enjoy playing and then putting the acquired skills into practice with adults or their peers.
3. Study pictures in books with your baby, show the body parts of the characters in the pictures. You can reinforce these skills with soft toys that your baby loves to play with. Show him where their eyes, mouth, ears, hands, etc. are, and then ask the baby to show the named parts of the body.
4. To train the articulation apparatus, it will be useful to make faces with your baby, show your tongue and move it from side to side. It will be useful if you can teach your baby to click his tongue, imitating the sounds of hooves.
5. As the time approaches for your child to begin speaking consciously, it is important to continue developing his fine motor skills. The actions of his fingers are coordinated enough for the baby to work with soft plasticine or dough. Of course, he is unlikely to be able to sculpt figures, but you can teach your baby how to roll sausages or show him how to attach small plucked pieces of plasticine or dough to a sheet of thick cardboard.
6. Kids enthusiastically build towers from cubes, now you can actively teach him to count and compare objects. “Construction” activities develop the child’s coordination, logic and perseverance, although he will not be able to play for a long time and will often get upset if he fails.

Child development at 10 months

At this age, the baby continues to train his ability to crawl. Now he moves from room to room like a meteor. Some can crawl like monkeys, lifting their knees off the floor. They can sit for a long time with their back straight and confidently stand against support. At this time, the baby can already begin to take the first independent steps along the support. Therefore, it is time to buy the right shoes.

A child at 10 months begins to master the descent and ascent. He can already climb onto a low sofa, steps and go down them backwards. He has mastered facial expressions, movements of his arms, fingers, and hands, and can now easily repeat the movements of adults. Imitating an adult, a child will wave bye-bye, press buttons, knock on a drum, feed a doll, rock a teddy bear, rub his hands in water, etc. However, the baby is not yet able to transfer these actions to other objects. For example, when rocking a teddy bear, he will not rock a doll until an adult shows him this.

At this age, a new skill appears - with the help of one object he can get another. For example, use a spoon to move a bagel towards you. If your child does not know how to do this, then teach him.

The child is already capable of drawing and modeling. He confidently moves paints or pencils across paper, and when working with play dough, he will tear off small pieces and attach them to a piece of paper by pressing down with his finger. Of course, adults should show all this to the baby, and he will repeat it.

At 10 months, the child gradually begins to understand that everything exists not only in his field of vision, he remembers the connection between actions. He begins to understand that if his mother has gone somewhere, she will definitely return after some time, that there are toys in a closed box. The child also develops an understanding of the relationship between various events and actions. For example, when dad returns from work, he begins to squeal with pleasure, anticipating the “flights”.

A ten-month-old child can already fulfill simple requests from an adult, for example, “bring a book,” “give me a teddy bear,” “give me a pen,” “open your mouth.”

Changes in speech at this stage of life are not so noticeable; he continues to pronounce paired syllables: “pa-pa”, “ma-ma”, “ba-ba”, “ta-ta”, “dya-dya”, as a rule, not as intended. He reacts well to his name, understands when he is praised and when he is scolded.