Egg Baby 17-18 months

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Egg Baby 17-18 months
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EGG BabyGrowth and Development Age 17-18 Months

• Physical- Firsts and Milestones
• Able to hold crayon or fat pencil
• Can undress themselves
• Vocabulary has grown to more than mama and dada
  i.e. juice, bottle, blanket, NO
• Balance improved to bend over and pick up toys,
• Can even run at this point and can throw overhand
• Can manage stairs more easily
• Brush teeth on their own

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Egg Baby 17-18 Months

• Intellectual- Firsts and Milestones
• Will scribble
• Will turn the pages of a book
• Button large buttons
• Unzip things
• Turn door knobs
• Stack things, make towers

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Egg baby 17-18 Months

• Social- Firsts and Milestones
• NO is big in their social setting
• Very self centered, they are their own world
• Beginning of the famous terrible two temper
  tantrums

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Egg baby 17-18 Months

• Emotional- Firsts and Milestones
• Because they are still forming the center of
  their world the 1.5 year old continues to develop
  and exhibit strong likes and dislikes and voice
  them with full body

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Egg Baby 17-18 Months

• Sleep
• Generally sleeps well thru the night
• Still needs daily naps - keeps morning nap until
  2 years old
• No drink, food or play 1 hour before nap or
  bedtime will help settle them down
• Food
• Uses spoon to feed themselves with little mess
• Masters a drinking cup by the second birthday
• May have as many as 12 teeth
• 1st Dental Check up is recommended