Many parents are wondering how to develop a baby at 2 months. There are those who consider any activity a waste of time, because the baby is still too young to understand anything. However, the degree of his development strongly depends on how often and fruitfully his relatives communicate with him.
Baby
At two months, the child already sees better, which means he distinguishes objects, he is especially good at recognizing the faces of adults who often come into contact with him. Do not neglect classes, because children's abilities directly depend on the interest of adults.
What to do with a child at 2 months
Games with a baby 2 months ago were meaningless, because he still could not perceive the world around him with the help of sight or hearing. However, now he perfectly understands where the sound comes from, and even turns towards the source, this is one of the first important skills. His second new ability is face recognition. Therefore, the simplest and most useful game for a 2 month old child is "cuckoo", when one of the parents or other persons known to the child hides behind his palms or other opaque obstacle, after which he appears, accompanying the event with the exclamation "cuckoo!" ...
Cuckoo game
The answer to the important question of how to develop a child at 2 months old at home is very simple and concise - you need to communicate with the child. Even when the grandfather does not know what to say or what to do with the baby, it is important to give each family member the opportunity to communicate with the child as best they can. The baby already easily recognizes the mother's voice and timbre, but this is the development in order to get acquainted with new sounds, with new faces and sensations.
The second month of a child's life is famous for the appearance of one of the most pleasant skills for all family members - this is a smile. Now, if you smile broadly at the kid, he will smile back. You can make grimaces or make funny sounds - all this will now make the baby smile.
A set of exercises for a child up to 2 months
Each morning, the child should begin with exercises. If he wakes up and requires food, the newborn is fed, the food is allowed to digest for 40 minutes, after which they begin to exercise. It consists in kneading the joints:
- The child is placed on his back, put in his palms on the finger and, after waiting for the grasping reflex, raise his hands to his head. Do these exercises five to seven times.
- Carefully knead the hands. To do this, you need to bend each hand separately, then to the inner, then to the outer side, and then make circular movements with an open hand or fist, without exerting great effort on the children's joint.
- Kneading the knees is carried out to a position that does not cause discomfort to the child. After the usual flexion / extension of the joint, the legs are alternately pressed against the stomach in a bent position.
- Stretch the ankle gently in a circular motion, without fighting the child's resistance.
- Using baby cream, massage the feet, feeling each joint at the base of the toes.
- It is imperative to massage the baby's belly in a strictly clockwise direction half an hour before meals.
- Placing your baby on his stomach before eating will help expel air from the esophagus, reducing the likelihood of regurgitation after eating.
Charging
Games for a 2 month old baby
Games for babies will help develop tactile skills, expand knowledge of the world and explore basic colors. Each game should bring joy to the child. If at this moment the kid does not like some kind of game, do not insist, it is better to postpone the venture for a while. The best tools for playing will be rustling and clinking toys, but you need to select them of good quality so that they do not make too annoying sounds and are free of sharp corners and holes for pinching your fingers.
It is important to understand! It is difficult for a baby to hold tightly even the lightest and smallest rattle, his coordination of movements is still imperfect. Therefore, the child will often let go of the object or occasionally accidentally hit himself in the face. In this connection, plastic rattles can bring physical pain, it is better to choose woven stuffed rattles for this age, which will save the skin from accidental bruises and tears.
Cloth rattle
Approximate daily routine at 2 months
When the baby is 2 months old, he already has a certain daily routine. If a child is fed by the hour, and not on demand, then by this age it is already easy to plan walks for 2 hours in the air without fear of hungry and capricious crying. He can stay awake for 2-2.5 hours. The child will sleep often, but not as long as before. Most often, the following regimen is observed in breastfed babies:
- food intake;
- sleep lasting 30 minutes or more;
- wakefulness from 2 to 2.5 hours;
- at night, the interval between feedings is often extended to 6 hours.
Infants who feed on formula may feel full for longer, so the intervals between feeds can be extended to 4 hours during the day.
Sleeps in a wheelchair
Additional Information. In the fresh air, children sleep much better and longer, despite the noise of the street. Therefore, young mothers, wishing to wander along the paths with a stroller for a longer time, adhere to the following rule: they feed the child, immediately they collect him for a walk, where he falls asleep in a very short time. Stay in the fresh air in this case can last up to 3 hours.
The development of the child's motor activity
For the development of physical activity, in addition to daily exercise, it is useful to use bathing in a bath. Famous practicing pediatrician Komarovsky E.O. recommends such bathing from the moment the umbilical wound healed, that is, almost from the first days of life. In water, as you know, any movement is easier to do than on land. So, a baby immersed in water can try to sit and even stand without harm to health. The most useful bathing for a child is complete freedom of movement, when only the head remains above the water, and the whole body, bypassing the force of gravity, easily moves in different directions. For such a bathing, a special swimming neck ring or the caring hands of parents are perfect.
Swimming circle
In the daytime, an hour and a half after feeding, it will be useful to exercise on a large inflatable ball (fitball). It does an excellent job of developing the muscles of the back and neck. The exercise is as follows:
- cover the ball with a clean diaper;
- lay the child on the ball, constantly holding the legs;
- roll back and forth, allowing the baby to touch first with the handles, then with the legs of the floor;
- with a small amplitude, make circular rolling movements with a ball, massaging the stomach.
The first year of a child's life exercising on such a ball will be very useful and will help prepare the muscular skeleton for the subsequent vertical position of the body.
Communicative development of a child at 2 months of life
It is very important that not only mom is involved in the game. It will be interesting for a child to observe the facial expressions of grandparents, because mother's usual timbre of voice is so different from others. Activities with a grandfather can be very interesting if he has a mustache or beard. Keeping your child busy by feeling the hairy part of the face will be not only useful, but also extremely pleasant. As a grandfather to play with a two-month-old child, he will decide for himself, remembering his youth.
Baby and grandfather
Classes with a baby at 2 months to develop attention
The best thing to do at home with a child is to play to develop mindfulness. To do this, a bright object or a relative's face is hidden behind an opaque fabric and always appears in different parts of it: either from the edge, then in the central part of the fabric, but from the other edge, then from below. The kid, busy tracking the appearance of the hidden target, will try to guess the place of its subsequent appearance.
How to develop visual perception at 2 months
In order to develop the child's organ of vision, it is best to use bright objects. It is important to choose colors at this age without halftones. Ideal choices are red, yellow, blue and green. It is better not to use shades such as turquoise, blue, pink in educational games yet.
Correct play is for the child to follow the slow movement of a bright object. There is no need to carry the toy further than a meter. First, show it directly in front of your face, at a distance of about 50 cm. Then slowly take it to the right, then again in the center, then to the left. Such gymnastics for the eyes will also help develop the eye muscles, strengthening them.
Games and toys for children at 2 months, developing hearing
Toys that can develop a child's hearing should not be too loud to avoid frightening the child. High-quality mobiles attached to the crib will help not only to develop hearing with their melodic pleasant music, but also to give your mother enough free time so that she can go about her business. Many contain a whole program of different melodies that help both develop and calm down before bed.
Attention! Mount the mobile on the crib in strict accordance with the detailed instructions, without neglecting safety precautions.
Educational rugs with arches for hanging toys perfectly develop not only hearing, but also other senses. The child can reach any object hanging over him. Most often, each element has its own separate function: some rustle, others vibrate, others ring. This is done in order to teach the baby to distinguish an object not only by colors, but also by sound in the aggregate. By remembering what sound each toy makes, the baby will soon be able to choose his favorite.
Developing mat
Educational games should not tire the baby. It is possible to engage a child with an exciting, but still difficult game for no longer than a couple of minutes. He will certainly report his fatigue by crying. During the first few years, the child should be taught in a playful way, without causing negative emotions.
