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• Your 6-month-old baby is making great strides in the growth department.
• Thanks to a continuing diet of breast milk or formula (around 500 to 700 ml) and solids (ranging from about 1 to 2 tablespoons to 3 to 9 tablespoons of cereal, fruit and vegetables each per day), your baby will weigh in somewhere between 5.9 kg to 10.4 kg and measure somewhere between 24 and 29 inches.
• What’s keeping baby busy these days in the milestone and development department? Plenty! If she’s like half of all babies, she’ll likely be able to sit up without support.
• The “average” baby sits unsupported somewhere around 6½ months.
• Now is the time to start solid foods for your little one.

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Childproofing

• With independent mobility just around the corner (and with it, access to dangerous baby temptations like the stairs, the dishwasher and the glass coffee table), it’s time to do a thorough childproofing of your home if you haven’t yet.
• Get down on the floor — and down on your hands and knees — to survey your home for potential trouble spots, and make changes as necessary.
• Teach your baby what’s safe and what’s not by starting to use a vocabulary of warning words (ouch, boo-boo, hot, sharp) and phrases (“don’t touch,” “that’s dangerous,” “be careful,” “that’s an ouch,” “that could give you a boo-boo”) that your baby will come to associate with dangerous objects, substances and situations.

• Stimulating your now-older baby requires new activities and toys that will help boost large and small motor skills as well as social, intellectual, and language skills.
• Think stacking toys (ones with different-size rings or multi-colored cubes), toys that encourage crawling (cars, trains, balls that roll, light up, make music) roly-poly toys (they right themselves when rolled over), toys that encourage pulling up to standing (make sure they’re sturdy!), and of course colorful board books that will keep your baby entertained.

Sign Language: Try baby sign language. Start using hand movements along with words to teach baby that he can communicate. Even if he can’t speak yet, he can learn how to sign that he wants more or is all done! Baby may already use forms of sign language to communicate with you like reaching toward you when he wants to be picked up.