Parenting at mealtime & playtime

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Fast Facts:

  • Continue breastfeeding on demand
  • Self-feeding with finger foods
  • Serve vegetables first when the child is most hungry
  • Give your baby a spoon for practice
  • Introduce drinking from a cup
  • Focus on variety – offer a variety of textures, flavors, and colors
  • Avoid juice and drinks with added sugar
  • Trust the child’s appetite: let the child decide when they are hungry and when they are full

Videos:

 6-12 Months: Nutrition

Resources:

Complementary Feeding 6-12 Months

 Recognizing Hunger and Fullness Cues

Transition to Solids

6-12month

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Fast Facts:

  • Encourage reaching, playing with toys, crawling, and standing
  • Put toys just out of reach to make them roll, scoot, crawl or pull up to get them
  • Talk back and forth – wait to let the baby make sounds
  • Offer toys with different textures, rough, smooth, soft or furry
  • Play simple games using all 5 senses
  • Screen time is not recommended
  • As your child is learning to walk and run, help them balance

Videos:

 6-12 Months: Play

Resources:

Role of Play

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Fast Facts:

  • Continue breastfeeding on demand
  • Take turns in conversations to help build your child’s language skills
  • Your baby will develop the ability to pick up small objects with fingers
  • Your child might enjoy action songs and rhymes
  • Tell your baby stories
  • Eat family meals at the table
  • Build your child’s words – talk to them
  • Read to your baby daily
  • Baby sleeps approximately 14 hours daily

Tips & Advice During COVID-19

Videos:

Common Myths Among Parents – Dina Rose, PhD
6-12 Months: Tips
Family Meal Time
Family Play Time
Healthy Sleep Habits: Getting Ready for Nap

Reading to Your Child

Resources:

 baby_readingYour Baby at 6 Months – See What Most Babies Do at this Age – A Handout from the CDC

Your Baby at 9 Months – See What Most Babies Do at this Age – A Handout from the CDC

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  • American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Ohio Department of Health
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