Around 9 months your baby may

  • sit unsupported
  • bottom shuffle or crawl
  • clap hands together
  • poke at objects to make them move
  • pick up tiny bits of fluff or small objects with a “pincer grip”, using finger and thumb
  • pull to standing position in their cot or with chair support
  • react to familiar faces, and act warily to new ones
  • blow kisses
  • look for dropped toys
  • babble tunefully

You can encourage development by

  • playing with building blocks, and interlocking toys, first books, activity centres
  • giving her saucepans, lids and a wooden spoon to play with
  • playing music and singing nursery rhymes
  • pretend to have a conversation with them on the phone