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15 Months Old Baby Growth and Development
Your toddler is developing at an amazing rate and before you know it he/she is over a year old.
15-month baby milestones are many, and your baby will achieve them in order to be a healthy and happy child. From small smiles to full-hearted laughter you as parents will witness the many wonders of life as your toddler grows up.
15 Months Old Toddler Development
Your 15-month-old toddler is developing fast with his cognitive skills, motor skills and language skills shaping up. There are several milestones he will achieve around this time and begin to understand and grasp the world around him.
Physical Development
Running behind your little one can be both healthy and difficult at the same time, but you will have to learn how to keep up with your baby will be all over the house soon. Every day you will watch your child accomplish more physical goals than the previous day. Your 15-month-old baby weight will be around 21-24 pounds provided he/she has received nutritious, healthy food options including breast milk
Some of the things your cutie will be able to do are: -
Be able to walk slow and steady steps with or without help
Will be able to hold himself/herself up and sit up with no support
Will be able to grab toys and things with their hands with a firm grip
Will have developed hand to mouth coordination to a certain extent, i.e. will try and put food and anything else in sight into his/her mouth
Your baby will try to participate in activities by trying and helping you around the house either by picking up the phone and talking or by using the mop
Your child will also be learning to use all his/her five senses such as touch, smell, examination, sight and sound and begin making associations with them
Social and Emotional Development
Your child is developing various abilities to interact with his/her environment including social skills and emotional development.
Here are some sure signs of emotional development in your child
Loves being the centre of attention
Can identify himself/herself in the mirror
Will start smiling and recognising people in her environment
Starts getting their own likes and dislikes
Boldly explores and tries new things
Hugs and kisses you
Dislikes sharing toys
Has temper tantrums about things
Cognitive and Language Development
By the time your toddler has reached 15 months, he/she is capable of simple sounding words such as ‘Ma’ and ‘Pa’. His language and cognitive abilities are developing rapidly, and your baby will be more independent and willing to participate in the conversation in his/her own way
Most 15-month-olds will be able to
Recognise the tone of voice, i.e. angry, upset or happy
Will be able to use simple works such as ‘ball’, ‘dog’ ‘cat.’
Your toddler will be able to understand the word ‘No’ and will also use it effectively and frequently
He/she will also be able to grasp action-based words such as ‘Show me’, ‘Look here.’
Your toddler will be able to understand more words than he/she can speak
Behaviour
As your toddler approaches what is popularly termed as the ‘terrible twos’, i.e. 24 months or 2 years, he or she will start developing a personality of their own and may subject you to some of his/her temper tantrums. Your child will also be very curious about his/her environment and will be quite participative in everything. Your 15 month old also might start exhibiting a bit more stubborn behaviour when it comes to a lot of things. At this stage, it is important for you as parents to be more assertive and get him/her to calm down first and not encourage destructive behaviour. While don’t go too easy, also don’t be too hard on your baby. Moderation is the key to manage his/her behaviour.
Food and Nutrition
While your toddler grows, his/her food and nutrition is extremely important, and one of the key components of their diet will be breast milk. Breast milk contains all the nutrients required for a 15 months baby food. Not only that it also helps raise the baby’s immunity thereby protecting him/her from most illnesses.
The World Health Organisation recommends to continue breastfeeding till the age of 2, but it also needs to be supplemented with solid foods and formula milk. Although, remember to never substitute formula with breast milk. Mothers of 15-month-olds should try and get at least 3-4 times feeding done. This can get a bit tough especially if you are working, so you can then prepare a pumping schedule to ensure your baby is getting enough breast milk. It is also important to give different textured food to your toddler so that they can learn to use their molars and chew their food. Prepare a food schedule for them which also includes two snacks through the day so that they can start getting used to solid food. If you are trying to wean your baby off breast milk, let them take the lead and decide when they can confidently give up breast milk.
Sleeping
Your baby is developing his/her personality and having little nuances of things that they like and dislike. Your toddler is also teething and maybe a bit restless when it comes to sleeping continuously. Your baby will also love to cuddle and sleep for 3-4 hours at a stretch. Napping in the afternoon will also become a common recurrence, but also make sure you make these naps shorter so that he/she can fall asleep well at night. It is important to create a routine before bed-time and start regularising the same so that your baby can fall asleep at the same time every day. Keep your baby’s sleeping environment as consistent as possible in terms of temperature, placement and toys so that he/she can put their fears at rest and go to sleep peacefully.
Play and Activities
Bonding with your baby is integral to growing up in a healthy fashion. Your baby will also start asking to help out around the house and will try to learn new skills. One of the best way to introduce new activities and learning is by playing games with your 15-month-old. Your baby would have become an expert at pee-a-boo so make it a habit to continue that. You can also teach your kid about word association by teaching them about animal sounds.
Another fun activity to do with your baby would be to play hide and seek. Since toddlers this age love peeks a boo, this will be a hit. While playing with your toddler, tire them out in the afternoons so that they can sleep soundly at night.
Bath time is also a great opportunity for you to play with your kid. Introduce toys and bubble baths and essential oils so that your kid can have fun. You can also plan play dates with your toddler and a friend so that they can learn how to share and play with other kids and develop their social skills further.
Tips for Parents
Silly songs and games should become a part of your bonding routine with your toddler
If you are travelling, make sure you have a separate baby seat for your child where he/she can be strapped in securely
Make sure you have a fully stocked diaper bag handy which includes extra diapers, bottles, toys, tissues and extra underwear
Start creating a stable and regular routine which your toddler can get used to. For example, you can include a bath routine before bedtime
Keep your toddler busy through the day especially during the afternoon with games and toys so that they can tire themselves out and fall asleep easily at night
Keep your paediatrician number handy in case of any emergency
Be patient and start teaching your toddler manners from very young. Be assertive but not to an extent where the child develops a fear
Make sure you and your partner takes time to do all the chores evenly, and you get some ‘me time’ for yourself
Start introducing healthy food options and different kind of fruits and vegetables so that they do not become fussy eaters.
Consult a Doctor If
While you may have taken your kid to the doc for their regular vaccines such as measles and mumps and Hepatitis, it is also important to prepare a chart with regular check-ups in mind for your toddler. If your toddler is doing anything out of the ordinary such as not being able to poop for days or pee for days, then it is time to consult your doc. As parents its also important to watch out for any redness in the eyes, any ear pain which may be making them uncomfortable. Some of the sure signs to watch out for is your baby is uncomfortable and crying and has difficulty falling asleep. Your baby also tries to touch inside his/her ears frequently or in the case of an eye infection tries to rub his/her eyes frequently.
If your baby has fever or cold and cough for more than 48 hours, it is important to call your doctor. If you spot blood either in his/her stools or anywhere else, do consult the doctor. If your child is allergic to something, take him/her immediately to the doctor. Make sure to ask plenty of questions, show his/her medical history and have a regular check-up.
Your toddler has already crossed many milestones till now and 15 months is one of them. Make sure to document this journey in pictures and videos.
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10 Stunning and Innovative Homemade Wall Decor Ideas
A wall if adorned the right way can do wonders for a room. For example, a mirror on the wall can create an illusion and make a small room look big, or a small hanging wooden plant corner can add greenery to a room and make the room look fresh and vibrant. So are you looking for ways to create something stunning for an empty, boring wall? Well, here we are with 10 interesting, spectacular and easy “Do-It-Yourself” wall decor ideas that would make your otherwise dull looking wall vibrant and gorgeous.
Awesome DIY Wall Decor Ideas
Have you ever tried making a wall decor yourself at home? If you haven’t then here are 10 creative and ingenious wall decor ideas that you can try from.
1. Clothesline Wall Photo Frame
This is one of the best homemade wall decoration ideas for the bedroom. What is more interesting about this piece of hand-made wonder is that you can hold beautiful memories (read photos) in it.
What You Will Need
You may get all the things required for this photo display in your house itself. You may use old or not in use items.
A big photo frame (as big as you would like to have).
Paint (any colour that will compliment your wall and the room of course).
Paintbrush
String or wire
Clothes’ clip
What to Do
First, paint the frame and leave it to dry thoroughly.
Then secure the string or wire in the frame with the help of adhesives.
Once the strings or wires are secured, place the photos one by one with the help of the clothes’ pins (to make the pins look nice and vibrant, you may either put decorative tapes around them or paint them).
2. Collage
This beautiful piece of artwork is something which will make an otherwise dull room vibrant. More importantly, you can make use of recycled materials which in itself makes it all the more interesting.
What You Will Need
The materials required are easily available at home and therefore making this will not pinch your pocket.
Colourful pages of magazines and newspapers.
Glue
A pair of scissors
Stationery knife
A piece of board (depends on how big you want your collage to be).
Pencil
Stencil (if you cannot draw free-hand)
What to Do
Outline a figure on the cardboard of which you wish to make a collage.
Cut out the figure using a stationary knife.
Then with a scissor, cut long strips (take colourful pages of glossy magazines or newspaper)
Paste them vertically on the cut out one by one.
Cut out the excess paper from the sides.
After it is completed, you may frame it up.
3. Rope Wall Designs
It is a hassle-free way of putting your feelings into a piece of art. It is one of the best wall hanging ideas that you could try.
What You Will Need
The requisites for this Do-It-Yourself wall decor can be easily available in any hardware store, or you can even find them all at home.
A piece of wooden board (It can be in any shapes).
Wax paper or parchment paper (the size of your board).
Mix – 1/4th cup corn starch, a bottle of glue and some water
Rope (long enough to form the word or design)
Small nails
Hammer
What to Do
First of all, spray-paint the board and let it dry.
Then lay the wax paper or parchment paper on the board and trace the word or design in it.
Then dunk the rope into the glue and corn starch mix.
According to the design in the wax or parchment paper, trace the word or design with the rope and use weights to hold the design intact.
Once dry, place the rope design onto the board and fix it up with small nails.
4. Skewer Wall Decor
If you are one of those who wants a piece of retro-art in your home, try this wall art for the living room. It requires inexpensive materials and is extremely easy to make.
What You Will Need
Most of the requirements for this will be easily available at home.
Bamboo skewers
Smooth Styrofoam balls
Spray paints – silver metallic and soft white colours
Sandpaper
Velcro
What to Do
Spray-paint the balls with the white colour and the skewers with silver colour.
Once the paint dries up, using the thin line in the ball, insert the skewers about ¼ inside it all around the ball.
Then once this line is done, put the skewers upwards too (fill up one side of the ball entirely with skewers).
Spray-paint the centre (base of the skewers) with white.
Once the paint dries up, sand up the back of the ball flat and attach a Velcro to it so that you can stick it to the wall.
5. Embroidery Hoop Wall Hanging
A simple, easy and colourful wall hanging that can help brighten your wall and add character to the room.
What You Will Need
To make this DIY wall hanging, you need to first decide on the colour scheme. Once that is sorted out, go for it.
Coloured knitting yarn (in two different colours)
Embroidery loops (in two different sizes)
Long wooden knitting pins (cut ½ centimetre from each side and make it smooth with sandpaper)
Sandpaper
Stationery knife
Dendrite
What to Do
Take both the loops and place the smaller loop inside the bigger loop.
Then take one side of the smaller loop, stick it on one side of the bigger loop.
Then stick the knitting pin to the two loops (it should be placed horizontally to the place where the two loops have been attached).
Then cut 34 inches of any one yarn for the middle section.
Cut 34 and 36 inches long strips of yarn of another colour for the loop.
Then take 5 strips of yarn and make a larks head knot.
For the hoop, take 36 inches long yarn (for the sides) and 34 inches long yarn for the middle portion of the hoop. Tie all of it in lark’s head knot.
Once all the yarn strips have been put in place, even out the strips at the bottom.
6. Colourful Dipped Spoons
This piece of wall art can spruce up any Kitchen wall or dining hall wall and add radiance to the walls.
What You Will Need
Latex Paint – several colours
Paintbrush
Spoons(various types and weighing light)
Tape (simple tapes and double-sided tapes)
scissors
What to Do
Put the spoons into the paints and scrape the excess paint off the backs of the spoon.
With a tape, hang the spoons at the end of the tables (keep a paper for the dripping paint on the floor).
Once they are dried up, lay them on the floor to decide which spoon looks best where.
Tape the topmost line and according to the measurement of the spoons, measure the next two layers and put a tape (the space left in between two layers should be the same).
Using double-sided tapes, stick the spoons on the walls.
7. Crayon Art
This piece of wall art is perfect as wall decor in your children’s bedroom. It looks great and is just the thing to add a dash of colour to the wall and room.
What You Will Need
It is an easy DIY, and you can ask your little one to give you a helping hand.
Crayons of various shades and colours (leave out the black, greys, browns, silver and gold).
Hot glue gun
Canvas
Heat gun
What to Do
Arrange the crayons on a table and place them the way you would like it to be placed on the canvas.
Then using a glue gun, stick the crayons to the canvas (you may stick the crayons with their wrappers on without them).
Place the canvas slightly vertically and support it against a table.
Once all the crayons are stuck on the canvas, begin heating the pointed section of the crayons (before you start melting the crayons, remember to put a paper beneath the canvas so that it does mess up your table).
As the crayons heat, it melts and runs down the canvas. Continue the process with the other crayons.
Once all the crayons have melted and run down, take off the excess wax from the edges by scraping and using the heat gun.
8. Salvaged Wood Wall Decor
For wood wall art decor, using salvaged wood is the ultimate. The use of this kind of wood gives the wall art a rustic charm and adding colours to the wood, makes it a cheerful and vibrant piece of artwork.
What You Will Need
This art piece requires fewer resources and can be finished in no time.
Salvaged wood pieces (cut into different sizes of rectangle and squares).
Nail
Hammer
Paint (different colours)
Sandpaper
What to Do
First place each of the pieces on the ground, as you would want it to be placed.
Then starting from the centre, nail another block to it.
Keep on nailing each piece with another till everything comes together.
Then paint each wood block with different colour paint, as per your liking.
Once the paint dries up properly, rub all the painted blocks with sandpaper to get the “worn out” look.
Lastly, apply a coat of a mix made of 2/3rd of coconut oil and 1/3rd of soft wax on top of the surface.
Keep it aside for 24 hours for the oil to soak in and the wax to coat the surface.
Once it is ready, frame it up.
9. Looped Yarn Art
This easy-to-make art piece is inexpensive and exudes rustic charm. It can be kept in the living room, bedroom or the nursery.
What You Will Need
This piece can be easily made with things that are easily available in every household. It can be touted as one of the best wall decor ideas since it is an amalgamation of yarn, wood and metal (iron nails).
Thick yarn
Wooden board
Wooden frame (the thickness of the frame has to be either equal to the board or thicker than it)
Nails and screws
Hammer
Paint
Brush
What to Do
Paint your board in any colour; preferably in white or light brown (the paint should have a matte look).
Make a fancy word on sentence stencil design on a paper.
Cut it out and place it on the board and trace it out.
Then put dots all along the traced line.
Once the dots are done, drill small holes into them so that you can screw your nails.
Then screw your nails in them.
Start wrapping the yarn around the nails and work through.
Once it is complete, attach the frame to it.
10. Plastic spoon Chrysanthemum mirror
Plastic spoons used for mirror wall art is something very few may have heard of or imagined. The DIY artwork is very cost efficient also since the main thing used are plastic spoons.
What You Will Need
The requisites for this art piece are nothing out of the box. Cheap and simple materials are used to turn a simple mirror into a beautiful work of art.
Plastic spoon (you will require loads of it)
Cardboard
Round mirror
Hot glue gun
Primer
Spray paint
Acrylic paint
Brush
What to Do
Taking a slightly smaller circle than the mirror, trace out a circle. Take a slightly bigger circle, trace another circle.
With a knife, cut the small circle and the big circle.
Then start cutting the spoon heads with scissors.
Once you are done with the cutting work, start attaching the spoon heads with hot glue (space it in a way that one spoon head is in the top and the next one little below it and then the third spoon again on the same line as the first one) on the circle cut out.
After attaching all the spoons, spray several coats of primer and the silver spray paint.
After it dries up, start painting the inner ring with a dark colour of acrylic paint (any colour that suits you).
As you paint on the upper layers, go lighter on the shade (you can mix white primer with the dark colour to make it a shade lighter).
For the next shade, add white paint to get the shade even lighter.
Work up till the last ring by adding more of the white paint to the dark colour, giving it a lighter shade as you go up.
After the paint dries up, attach the mirror to the back with hot glue.
Put a strong jute twine with hot glue at the back of the mirror to hang it.
These innovative home décor ideas for wall art are easy to make, and the things that you require to make them are readily available. Try out any or all of these fantastic do-it-yourself wall decors and feel a sense of pride and accomplishment every time somebody praises your handmade piece of artwork.
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This story is about me when I was just 10 months! It begins as me and my mom went to my grandpa's house to reside there for some days as they wanted to play with me as I was the only infant to play with during that day rather I was very cute!😊They used to play with me a lot and enjoyed the smallest of my smile.But when it was the return time after 10 days they all got sad and wanted that I and mom reside there a few more days but due to some reason it was not possible.Even I used to enjoy there as it was a cool and calm place with loving and caring people who made every try to make me laugh! And I was a naughty one!
On the day of returning back home I didnt wanted to come back so I just went up the stairs crawling slowly without making noise while mom was busy packing and grandma too was helping her. But when the car came to pick us up everbody released that I was missing and everyone was tensed and busy finding me out here and there! Suddenly my elder cousin found me out when he saw me from down he soon told mom about it. Mom ran towards me as I was on the crimp of the stairs she cried with joy and hugged me up! All this ended up from a tensed atmosphere to a cute and happy ending! I hope this was quit funny as all this happened when I was just 10 months. All this reminded me of another incident when I was two years one morning I asked my mom to take me to the bathtub and she denied as she was busy doing some stuff so I went to the bathroom and then locked it up as I saw elders doing it I tried to copy them! But when I tried to open it I was not able to do so! I got afraid as I didnt knew how to switch on the light and cried a lot and shouted for help! Mom came running and tried to open the door with keys but unluckily the keys were not the correct one .She tried all the keys and at the end called dad and he came with a key man who made a key and opened the door. While all this was going on I got tired of crying and slept on the floor there so mom got tensed as I was not speaking for some time. When they opened the door I was found sleeping on the floor.Mom picked me up and cried hugging me and when I opened my eyes I laughed out seeing my mom and dad with me.But again it ended happily with an ice-cream party to make me feel relaxed! Even today as I lock the door I remember this incident!😊Childhood is the best part of life.Live its every moment and enjoy it! Read more
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Q. hello doctor, I'm 3 weeks pregnant. can we sleep on our belly or which side We can sleep on during pregnancy...
Akifa Tahreem
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A. no you can't sleep in your tummy
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when should I check pregnancy test at home?
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A. If you have missed your periods you can wait for one week more and then do a urine pregnancy test to know about the pregnancy result and consult with your doctor according to the result for medication
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A. after 2 weeks. do ultrasound n necessary tests after consulting a specialist. without proper check up we can't advise or help you.. Avoid shirt cuts when it comes to health if mother n baby. ok.
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so when should I take pregnancy test at home?
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