How your child plays, learns, speaks, acts, and moves offer important clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age.
What Most Babies Do at this Age:
Social/Emotional:
1. Smiles spontaneously, especially at people.
2. Likes to play with people and might cry when playing stops.
3. Copies some movements and facial expressions, like smiling or frowning.
Language/Communication:
1. Begins to babble.
2. Babbles with expression and copies sounds he hears.
3. Cries in different ways to show hunger, pain, or being tired.
Cognitive (learning, thinking, problem solving):
1. Lets you know if she is happy or sad.
2. Responds to affection.
3. Reaches for a toy with one hand.
4. Uses hands and eyes together, such as seeing a toy and reaching for it.
5. Follows moving things with eyes from side to side.
6. Watches faces closely.
7. Recognizes familiar people and things at a distance.
Movement/Physical Development:
1. Holds head steady, unsupported.
2. Pushes down on legs when feet are on a hard surface.
3. May be able to roll over from tummy to back.
4. Can hold a toy and shake it and swing at dangling toys.
5. Brings hands to mouth.
6. When lying on stomach, pushes up to elbows.