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Protect Your Back by Bending Your Knees When Picking Up Your Baby

Last Updated: September 26, 2008

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Parenting Tips for Your 7 Month Old Baby

  • When you pick up your baby, bend from your knees and kneel or squat, keeping your back as straight as possible.
  • Hold onto your baby, and straighten up from the knee-bend or squat position.
  • Make your knees do the work, not your back.
  • Do not bend over from your waist.


Learn more about Your 7 Month Old Baby from Just In Time Parenting. You can also go to our Resource Links for additional information on child care and development.


Note to Parents: When reading this newsletter, remember: Every baby is different. Children may do things earlier or later than described here. This newsletter gives equal space and time to both sexes. If he or she is used, we are talking about all babies.
References: These materials were adapted by authors from Extension Just in Time Parenting Newsletters in California, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Tennessee, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Wisconsin.

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