You suddenly realize that the days are long and the year is short. The days of waking up early dawn to appease your little will soon be gone. You are about to enter the beginning of the real fun of the whirlwind events of your baby.
Tracking the baby milestone is essential to determine the markers of their health and wellbeing. To have a baby milestone chart is necessary to have a guide and monitor the baby’s development. The first smile, the first step, and the first word are extremely an accomplishment of goals for the parents.
You want to be on the lookout of every important milestone with your camera ready. Most parents fail to understand and unfold how baby development will progress; that is why they are so obsessive in monitoring the child’s progress.
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Typically, parents worry on the right track of the development of their baby. Doctors will ultimately advise the parents to be not overreacting if the baby is not hitting one of the milestones. A child develops in a broad spectrum. Every child is unique, and not all can do the same things at the same time. Parents’ concern is how their child is moving forward to making progress towards new skills.
We are going to provide a baby milestone chart that can give you an overview of the child’s behavior in every age. It is helpful for you to know the indications and what milestones to expect.
Importance of baby milestones
Baby milestones are exciting and memorable moments to capture. These are essential indicators of health and wellbeing of how the child grows cognitively, socially, emotionally, and physically.
- Gross motor skills: These are muscles, balancing, and changing the position that includes sitting, standing and walking
- Excellent motor skills: This is the use of hands for smaller and refined movements such as playing and eating
- Language skills: communicating with collaborative body language and understanding what others are saying
- Cognitive skills: more-refined thinking skills, like perceptive and retention
- Social skills: conveying feelings and responding to the opinions of others
What to track with the baby milestone chart
A baby milestone chart is just a rough guide. Babies mature in different ways. A study shows that there is one in six children who experience a developmental delay that was not adequately responded by the parents. Missing a development milestone is not a reason for you to cause panic. It does not mean that the missing piece will immediately conclude a long-term issue is at stake. Several factors that influence baby milestones. You don’t need to pressure your baby to boom all the skills as you need to give your baby a little extra time.
1 Month old baby milestones
It is known to be the fantastic first month for you and your baby! Your day-to-day routine will change and will start to turn your life upside down. This time you will be highly confident with your abilities as a mom than a month ago.
Baby milestones:
- She can notices faces
- sees bold patterns and determine the colors black and white
- Recognizes the sound of your voice
- Brings his hands inside the array of his eyes and mouth
- Moves his crown side to side when lying on his belly
2 Month old baby milestones
A two-month-old baby will start to realize the joy of interaction. The baby will stay up to socialize. He is going to entertain you and others around the house. This time you will be getting little extra sleep at night.
Baby milestones:
- Starts to smile at people
- Momentarily calms herself (may bring her hands to her mouth to self-soothe
- Begins to follow things with eyes and distinguishes people at a distance
- Starts to get chintzy and acts boredom
- Holds her head up
- Commences to push up when lying on her tummy
- Makes flatter movements with her arms and legs
3 Month old baby milestones
The emotional skills will start to develop. He explores to be creative when crying to express when he expresses what he feels. He also knows how to tell you with his head that he is no longer happy and bored with you.
Baby milestones:
- Can differentiate your face from others around him
- Joltsto have different cries for different needs—hunger, diaper change, pain, etc
- Turns his head away to express boredom
- Opens and shuts his hands
- Swipesat hanging things
- Trailshis eyes with the moving objects
- Knows how to go his head in the path of noises
- Playing with other people and sometime may cry when the playing stops
4 Month old baby milestones
This time your baby is becoming alert and eager to explore everything around her.
Baby milestones:
- Starts to giggle and laugh
- Copies facial expressions
- Grasps for a toy with one hand
- Holds her head steady without support
- Thrusts up onto her elbows when she’s lying on her tummy
5-month-old baby milestones
The baby is now starting to build smaller skills that will become a foundation for the development of more critical skills.
Baby milestones:
- rolling above from belly
- He picks up to sightsee the figures and act of putting them to mouth
- Loves looking at the mirror and entertains himself and make babbles
6 Month old baby milestones
The baby will be more mobile in this 6-month mark. The baby may start to crawl. If he doesn’t no need to worry because not all babies crawl before they know how to walk. Some babies do not necessarily crawl but immediately start to walk in the next milestones.
Baby milestones:
- Starts crawling along the surface
- Moving belongings from one hand to the other
- Starts sitting without support
- Begins to understand simple words
- Responds to her name
7 Month old baby milestones
Baby is now eager to manipulate objects around him to learn about them. Sometimes he loves the annoying habit of dropping things onto the floor. It is a way of building a sign of a baby’s curiosity.
Baby milestones:
- Enjoys dropping things on the floor
- Playssimple games like peekaboo
- BeginS to respond to “no overreacting.”
- Finds partially hidden objects
8 Month old baby milestones
At this stage, you must be keen on babyproofing because the baby will be moving around. They will become prone to possible accidents.
Baby milestones:
- The baby can start crawling, use the thumb and index finger
9 Month old baby milestones
The baby babbling will start to experiment with different tones and sounds.
Baby milestones:
- May be wary of strangers and clings to familiar people.
- Has favorite toys.
- Makes a lot of altered sounds, like “mamamama” and “bababababa.
- Copiessounds and gestures of others.
- Uses fingers to point at things.
10 Month old baby milestones
Their different skills you can observe in this stage. If your 10-month old baby has a playgroup, you can see that some may be crawling, but some are starting to cruise.
Baby milestones:
- Discover things in diverse ways, like a quivering, banging and tossing
- Tugs to stand
- Starts shuffling along by holding onto stuff
- Gets into a sitting place without assistance
- Commences feeding herself finger food, thanks to better hand-eye coordination
11 Month old baby milestones
The baby is now developing its personality and temperament. The baby is learning and observing to figure out things that are happening around. The baby also shows shyness and independence.
Baby milestones:
- Appreciates item permanence
- Sneaks up the stairs (while supervised)
- Makes sounds with variations in tone (sounds more like speech)
- Develops separation anxiety
12 Month old baby milestones
The baby is now transitioning to a toddler stage.
Baby milestones:
- Responds to simple articulated requests and direction
- Uses basic motions, like shaking his head “no” or waving “bye-bye.
- ays “mama” and “dada” and screams like “uh-oh!
- Looks at the right image or thing when it’s named
- Starts to use belongings correctly such as drinks from a cup or brushes his hair
- May take a few footsteps without holding on
- May stand alone
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