Evidence-Based Developmental Markers for a 9-Month-Old Female Infant

Evidence-Based Developmental Markers for a 9-Month-Old Female Infant
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Evidence-Based Developmental Markers for a 9-Month-Old Female Infant
Insights on a child’s developmental milestones are important for parents as they mitigate against the degree of worries and concerns that ensue from parenting. This phenomenon can be arrived from various dimensions including normal motor and language, cognitive and social developments. The gross motor milestones of a 9-month-old female baby entails the presence of postural reflexes, sits well and further, rolls both ways (Dosman, Andrews, & Goulden, 2012). Cruises are predominant in this stage. Onwards, the fine motor elements entail the ability to hold small objects between their thumb and index finger, often referred to as immature pincer.
When it comes to the language and specifically, speech, the kid takes begins jargoning. Jargoning is the act of babbling that encapsulates the mixture of cadence, inflection, and consonants. At this stage, the kid is highly likely to elicit terms such as dada and mama and at the same time, laughs frequently. From a cognitive perspective, the child will look for dropped objects, bang objects together, and exhibit a couple of trial and errors while problem solving. Acts of social-emotional development include but not limited to predictable schedule, en...