Developmental Recap

From the book What to Expect the First Year (Finwe already could do the things in red) The things in green are the accomplishments that he has added:

By the end of the seventh month, your baby

. . . should be able to:

• sit without support
• feed self a cracker
• razz (a sound, like the one made when aparent blows on a kid's belly)
  

. . . will probably be able to:

• bear some weight on legs when held upright
• object if you try to take a toy away
• work to get a toy out of reach
• pass a cube or other object from one hand to the other
• look for a dropped object
• rake a raisin and pick it up in fist (but it wasn't a raisin--a cheerio)
  
• turn in the direction of a voice
• babble, combining wovels and consonants such as ga-ga-ga, ba-ba-ba, da-da-da, ma-ma-ma
• play peekaboo--He likes it but doesn't quite play it yet; he does try to move the cloth off his head. He's trying.
  

. . . may possibly be able to:

• stand holding on to someone or something

. . .may even be able to:

• pull to standing position from sitting
• get into a sitting position from stomach
• play patty-cake (clap hands) or wave bye-bye
• pick up tiny object with any part of thumb and finger
• walk holding on to furniture (cruise)
• say mama or dada indiscriminately