Month 6

Mouths objects due to exploration as well as teething⁶

Sustained active closure of lips in supine, prone, and sitting⁶

Active movements of lip, jaw, and tongue in prone and sitting⁶

Mainly uses sucking while feeding, some suckling still occurs⁶

No liquid loss in nipple or bottle sucking^{6, 29}

Long sequences of suck-swallow-breathe⁶

Suckles liquid from cup with some liquid loss⁶

May protrude tongue with swallow⁶

Teething ⁶

Drools with babbling, reaching, teething; less during feeding⁶

Opens and lowers mouth to spoon⁶

Begins to take food from spoon with upper lip, may see suckling from spoon⁶

Some food loss with spoon⁶

Biting movements accompanied with drooling⁶

Munching pattern for eating solids^{6, 29}

Bite-small phasic up and down movements^{6, 29}

Some lateral tongue movement with solids placed on side biting surfaces⁶

Gags or chokes on pieces that fall to back of tongue⁶

Gag reflex diminishing⁶