Developmental Milestones
Does Your Baby…
At 3 months:
• Push up on his arms and hold his head up?
• Follow a moving toy with his eyes?
• Startle by a loud noise?
At 4 Months:
• Follow and react to bright colors, movement, and objects?
• Turn toward sounds?
• Show interest in watching people's faces?
• Smile back when you smile?
At 6 months:
• Sit up with light support?
• Reach for objects?
• Relate to you with real joy?
• Smile often while playing with you?
• Coo or babble when happy?
• Cry when unhappy?
At 9 months:
• Sit without support?
• Crawl (up on hands and knees)?
• Smile and laugh while looking at you?
• Exchange back-and-forth smiles, loving faces, and other expressions with you?
• Exchange back-and-forth sounds with you?
• Exchange back-and-forth gestures with you, such as giving, taking, and reaching?
At 12 months:
• Pull up to a standing position?
• Finger-feed self solid foods?
• Use a few gestures, one after another, to get needs met, like giving, showing, reaching, waving, and pointing?
• Play peek-a-boo, patty cake, or other social games?
Make sounds, like “ma,” “ba,” “na,” “da,” and “ga”?
• Turn to the person speaking when his/her name is called?
At 15 Months:
• Use pointing or other “showing” gestures to draw attention to something of interest?
• Use different sounds to get needs met and draw attention to something of interest?
• Use and understand at least three words, such as “mama,” “dada,” “bottle,” or “bye-bye”?
At 18 months:
• Walk well and run?
• Name some objects?
• Use lots of gestures with words to get needs met, like pointing or taking you by the hand and saying, “want juice”?
• Use at least four different consonants in babbling or words, such as m, n, p, b, t, and d?
• Use and understand at least 10 words?
• Show that he or she knows the names of familiar people or body parts by pointing to or looking at them when they are named?
• Do simple pretend play, like feeding a doll or stuffed animal, and attracting your attention by looking up at you?
At 24 months:
• Walk up and down stairs?
• Stack 2-4 objects?
•Do pretend play with you with more than one action, like feeding the doll and then putting the doll to sleep?
• Use and understand at least 50 words?
• Use at least two words together (without imitating or repeating) and in a way that makes sense, like “want juice”?
• Enjoy being next to children of the same age and show interest in playing with them, perhaps giving a toy to another child?
• Look for familiar objects out of sight when asked?
