12/31/08

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Milestone chart: One to six months

What to expect from your baby at this stage.

Child’s Age
Mastered Skills
(most children can do)
Emerging Skills
(half of children can do)
Advanced Skills
(a few children can do)

One month
• Lifts head
• Responds to sound
• Stares at faces
• Follows objects
• Ooohs and ahhs
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• Smiles
• Laughs
• Holds head at 45-degree angle

Two months
• Vocalises sounds – gurgling and cooing
• Follows objects
• Holds head up for short periods
• Smiles, laughs
• Holds head at 45-degree angle
• Movements become smoother
• Holds head steady
• Bears weight on legs
• May lift head and shoulder (mini-pushup)

Three months
• Laughs
• Holds head steady
• Recognises your face and scent
• Squeals, gurgles, coos
• Recognises your voice
• Does mini-pushups
• Turns toward loud sounds
• Can bring hands together and may bat at toys
• Can roll over (onto sides)

Four months
• Holds head up steadily
• Can bear weight on legs
• Coos when you talk to him
• Can grasp a toy
• Reaches out for objects
• Can roll over
• Imitates speech sounds – baba, dada
• May cut first tooth
• May be ready for solids

Five months
•  Can roll over
• Amuses himself by playing with hands and feet
• Turns towards new sounds
• Recognises own name
• May be ready for solids
• May sit momentarily without support
• Mouths objects
• Stranger anxiety may begin

Six months
• Turns towards sounds and voices
• Imitates sounds, blows bubbles
• Rolls in both directions (on his sides)
• Reaches for objects and mouths them
• Sits without support
• Is ready for solids
• May lunge forward or start crawling
• May jabber or combine syllables
• May drag object towards himself

since i don’t have NYE pics yet, here are bday pics:

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