| Every day of your new baby's life brings about | | | | night. The baby will begin rolling over and grasping |
| new activities they are going to be developing. | | | | at objects. Around five months, your baby will |
| Knowing what your child is going to be doing next | | | | begin the teething process and by a half year in |
| will help you know that your baby is developing | | | | age will be sitting by itself and holding its bottle. |
| normally. | | | | By the seventh month, your child will be starting |
| For the first month you will notice your child | | | | to feed itself with hand held foods, start playing |
| beginning to exercise its muscles. This will | | | | more complicated games like peekaboo and |
| demonstrate by short periods of lifting and | | | | imitate many more sounds. By the eighth and |
| moving its head and by making jerky arm and leg | | | | ninth months your child will be sitting up by itself |
| movements. Your new baby will try to turn | | | | and will be demonstrating its preferences in food, |
| towards familiar sounds and will blink at a strong | | | | toys and the people around it. At this time your |
| light as it had previously been used to the dark. | | | | child will begin showing parental separation anxiety. |
| By the time your baby has been experimenting | | | | Sometime around the tenth month your child will |
| with the world around it for a couple of months, it | | | | learn to stand by itself. It will understand the "no" |
| will be learning to smile, follow objects visually and | | | | command and will be much more dexterous in |
| start making its first attempts at repeating | | | | manipulating its toys. |
| sounds. | | | | By the first birthday, your child will be able to |
| These activities will increase in proficiency over | | | | recognize itself in a mirror, be crawling and pulling |
| the next few months. Your baby will be more | | | | on items to see what they do and other |
| aware of the world around it and respond | | | | experimental exercises with the world around it. |
| appropriately to color, movement and sounds. | | | | The big adventure of discovering the world is at |
| Your baby will be starting to sleep through the | | | | hand! |