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3 months | 6 months | 1 year |
- Turn their heads toward bright colors and lights
- Recognize bottle or breast
- Respond to their mother's voice
- Make cooing sounds
- Bring their hands together
- Wiggle and kick with arms and legs
- Lift head when on stomach
- Become quiet in response to sound, especially to speech
| - Follow moving objects with their eyes
- Turn toward the source of normal sound
- Reach for objects and pick them up
- Play with their toes
- Help hold the bottle during feeding
- Recognize familiar faces
- Imitate speech sounds
- Roll over
| - Get to a sitting position
- Stand briefly without support
- Crawl
- Imitate adults using a cup or telephone
- Play peek-a-boo and patty cake
- Wave bye-bye
- Put objects in a container
- Make "ma-ma" or "da-da" sounds
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More Milestones at 3 Months | More Milestones at 7 Months | More Milestones at 1 Year |
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18 months | 2 years | 3 years |
- Like to push and pull objects
- Say at least six words
- Follow simple directions
- Pull off shoes, socks, and mittens
- Can point to a picture that you name in a book
- Feed themselves
- Make marks on paper with crayons
- Walk without help
- Walk backwards
- Point, make sounds and try to use words to ask for things
| - Use two-to-three-word sentences
- Say about 50 words
- Recognize familiar pictures
- Kick a ball forward
- Feed themselves with a spoon
- Demand a lot of your attention
- Turn two or three pages together
- Identify hair, eyes, ears, and nose by pointing
- Show affection
| - Throw a ball overhand
- Ride a tricycle
- Put on their shoes
- Open the door
- Turn one page at a time
- Play with other children for a few minutes
- Repeat common rhymes
- Use three -to-five-word sentences
- Name at least one color correctly
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| More Milestones at 2 Years | More Milestones at 3 Years |
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4 years | 5 years | Remember |
- Use five to six word sentences
- Go up and down stairs without support
- Throw a ball overhand
- Understand the concept of counting and may know a few numbers
- Draw a person with two to four body parts
- Recall parts of a story
- Begin to have a clearer sense of time
- Understand the concepts of "same" and "different"
- Imagine that many unfamiliar images may be "monsters"
| - Use more than five words in a sentence
- Like to sing dance and act
- Aware of gender
- Can count 10 or more objects
- Tell longer stories
- Say name and address
- Hops, somersaults, swings, climbs
- Draw people with bodies
- Print some letters
- Dress and undress without help
- Use fork, spoon and (sometimes) a table knife
| Babies develop at their own pace, so it's impossible to tell exactly when your child will learn a given skill. The developmental milestones here will give you a general idea of the changes you can expect, but don't be alarmed if your own baby's development takes a slightly different course.
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More Milestones at 4 Years | More Milestones at 5 Years | |
