First Year Milestones
Developments to love!
Birth to 3 Months
- Respond to parents voice
React to voice pitch and high volumes
Communicate with body language and crying
Suck on their thumbs -->
Finds arms and legs
Responds to smiles and laughing
Skin to Skin bonding is rewarding at this stage
Touching and pulling on hands
3 Months to 6 Months
- Playing Peek-a-Boo <--
- Recognizing their own name
- Laughing and smiling
- Begins to roll over
- Grasping objects effectively
6 Months to 9 Months
- Recognize familiar faces
- Learns to recognize toys
- Waving connects with “Hi and Bye” -->
- Crawling -->
- Child-Proof the house at this stage
- Sit up by themselves
9 Months to 1 Year
- Associates names with familiar faces
- Responds to "NO"
- "Finds" themselves in the mirrors <--
- Eats food with their hands
- Imitate peoples actions
- Holds bottle and cups themselves
- Walks with aid
- Throws and rolls toys