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Seventh Month

Baby rarely stays on back for a very long time.
Baby is independent and functional in prone.
Baby bears weight on the forearms and extended arms.
Baby shifts weight in the shoulder girdle and pelvic girdle and reaches while in forearm and extended arm weight bearing.
Baby shifts weight in the lower trunk and pelvis and assumes a position of lower extremity dissociation.
Baby reaches in all directions for toys.
Baby uses radial-palmar grasp and inferior scissor grasp with adducted thumbs and flexed fingers.
Baby spends much of the time in prone in a laterally shifted, asymmetrical posture.
In sidelying, baby dissociates the lower extremities:
- Baby extends weight-bearing leg at hip and knee.
- Baby flexes and abducts unweighted leg at hop and flexes at knee.
Baby transitions from back to all fours.
- Baby initiates transitions from prone to quadruped with dissociation of the lower extremities.
- Baby maintains upper extremity extension and lifts pelvis laterally over flexed leg.
Baby rocks in on all fours:
- Baby rocks forward and backward, fixing with hip flexors.
- Baby initially rocks with large movements and falling.
Baby shifts weight over the wrists and hands during rocking:
- Baby shifts weight forward over hands.
- Baby shifts weight laterally over hands.
- Baby transitions from quadruped to prone.
- Baby initiates pull to sit, by independently flexing the head and actively pulling with the arms.
- Baby sits independently with straight back Baby demonstrates head rotation leading to trunk rotation, which causes subtle weight shifting to the face-side.
- Baby bangs and shakes a toy.
- Baby transfers toy from hand to hand.
- Baby rises to stand independently by using upper extremities to pull up on furniture or people.
- Baby uses both arms and legs to stabilize in standing Baby tries stabilizing with one hand while the other hand reaches.
- Baby takes full weight on the legs when held around the chest or by the hands in standing Baby attempts to walk forward when supported in standing.