Your Baby’s Amazing Journey: Developmental Milestones

Physical Development:

• Sits without support.
• May start to crawl, scoot, or creep.
• Pulls themselves up to a standing position.
• Uses hands more skillfully.

Senses:

• Has more refined vision.

Feeding:

• Eating more solid foods with different textures.
• May start to hold their own bottle or cup.

Social and Emotional Development:

• Babbles strings of consonants and vowels (e.g., “mama,” “dada”).
• Understands “no.”
• May show stranger anxiety.
• Enjoys interactive games like pat-a-cake.

Cognitive Development:

• Understands object permanence (knowing an object still exists even when it’s out of sight).
• Enjoys dropping and picking up objects.

Things you can do to support development:

• Create a safe environment for crawling and exploring.
• Continue to name objects and talk about what you are doing.
• Play games that involve hiding and finding objects.
• Offer finger foods.
• Respond to their babbling.