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Many things happen from birth to three months. You have to recognize, reinforce and watch these changes in your young ones. Your baby will grow and develop on her own.

Considering the milestones of infant development will be easy as you know your baby.

During first month, your family members can feel some trouble to adjust. But soon they will be habituated to it.

You can feel it as the endless circle of soothing, feeding and diapering. You can delight at your infant development and growth and it becomes a routine work for you.

Motor skills:

You can observe your baby wobbly during first few days. Your baby can lift their head when lying on tummies and face their head straight while on their back. These changes are observed few months later.

Your baby may not roll over but can turn from side to back. Kicking and stretching of your baby becomes vigorous. Your baby will grasp the toy that you hold and can hold for few minutes tightly.

Hearing:

Coming into the world is a big adventure for the babies.

The new born development involves the social and emotional development.

Sleepy and shy babies also take interest in your face and voice.

New born development in babies is understood by observing these.

• The new born can feel but they cannot think.
• They can’t understand what is happening to them.
• They do not know who is feeding them.
• They cry when they are hungry and tired but they don’t know who they are cared for.
• Smile by four to five weeks.
• They cannot respond to the parents with consciousness.
• Laugh out loudly by three months.

Some physical development characteristics are many babies cry a lot especially at late afternoons and evenings. The baby can feel overwhelmed and bombarded by external stimuli.

Hearing and seeing in newborns:

New borns can hear the noises and has been hearing before birth. New borns can see with their immature eye muscles but they cannot organise the visual images into meaningful shapes.

The newborn developmental characters are that they are attracted by bright lights, stripes, colors, patterns and dots in the first two months.

Your little baby will be growing day by day, when he or she became toddler you can observe various physical and mental developments in them.

Know various physical, intellectual, social, emotional and mental toddler developments that you can observe.

Physical toddler development:

• The toddlers may grow less quickly when compared to infancy.
• Most probably children at this age will eat less, but they prefer to eat more frequently throughout the day.
• Most of them will walk without support by 14 months.
• They can walk backward and up steps by 22 months.
• They prefer to eat the food by themselves although spills can be expected.
• They will like to drink water with cup (with help).
• They can scribble and stack blocks.

Social and emotional toddler development:

• They like to do their things independently.
• You can observe common toddler temper tantrums in them.
• They don’t like to play with other children. They like to play by themselves.
• They may be possessive or feel difficult to share toys with other children.
• Rules cannot be remembered by them.
• They feel themselves as the center of attraction to the whole world.

From birth to one year you will hear your baby sound in the form of crying to cooing to talking.

This baby sound is a sign for the development of her speech and language skills.

What type of baby sound you can observe from birth to one year?

One month:

Your baby at one month old can understand the speech before she begins to speak.

From the birth she will look at your face and listens to your voice. You can observe a small range of baby sound that will mean something to you.

With this sound she expresses the feelings of hunger, upset or cold and pain. The baby sound includes crying and certain sounds that she makes while breathing. When your baby is feeding she makes sucking noises and sound of happiness.

Baby’s cry is an important way to communicate. Crying is the foundation for speech as your baby learns to control the air that comes from her lungs and learns how to use her vocal cord.

Two months:

Learning baby walking is a key milestone in every baby’s life. The first step while learning baby walking takes place in between nine and thirteen months.

Sometimes baby walking starts at sixteenth or seventeenth month, you need not to worry, this is still perfectly normal.

Baby exercise is essentially important to their health. The first baby exercise of course will be in the nurse’s arms.

After a month or two when your baby begins to sleep less during the day, he will delight to roll and kick about on the sofa.

He will thus use his limbs freely. Expose your baby into the open air, is all the exercise he requires at this period.

At some period the child will make his first attempt to walk. There are some baby walking devices which have been devised to teach a child to walk.

If you adopt the go-cart, leading-strings etc, their tendency is harmful, and they can cause flatness of the chest, confined lungs, distorted spine, and deformed legs, are so many evils which often originate in such practices.

There are things you can do for your child development.

These things help in the process of developing the motor skills which are necessary for child walking on her own.

Here are few tips for child development:

• When you want to help in your child walking, don’t hold her legs or hands. You can hold her by the torso.
• Don’t allow your baby to wear shoes when she is inside. It is much easier for a baby to learn to walk barefoot.
• Try to encourage your child walking motor skills by calling her to come to you or by placing a favorite toy just out of reach so that she crawls towards it. This will help her engage in these actions on her own decision and will accelerate the development of several necessary skills for independence.
• Make sure that the floor in your house is not slippery. It is difficult for your baby to balance on a slippery floor and this will be dangerous for a baby just learning to balance.

Motor skills which are necessary for child development are not exactly the same thing as hand and eye coordination but they are pretty closely related. The development of hand-eye coordination often analogous and/or compliments the development of gross and fine motor skills.

Most of the parents are worried about their baby’s growth patterns.

Regular visits with the pediatrician can help to main the normal baby growth.

Your pediatrician can use growth charts as tools to keep track of your baby growth and development.

The doctor will measure your baby’s length, weight, and head circumference in each checkup.

Then the doctor compares your baby growth measurements to a chart of national averages for infants of the same age and sex.

Hence the doctor will be able to tell you what percentile your baby is in when compared to averages for babies around the nation.

There are many issues that come into play when determining where your baby growth statistics will fall in the percentile chart.

You have to remember that no two babies are the same and that every child depends on the body chemistry, heredity, diet, and many other factors. These measurements, charts, and percentile points are only guides for a doctor to help in evaluating your baby growth.

You can also track your baby growth at home, but the measurements you take at home may or may not be as accurate as the measurements your doctor takes.

When your baby begins to participate and engage in the world around him, it indicates that your baby is becoming more and more independent.

From the moment after the birth your baby will begin the process of developing the motor skills that are necessary for him to take command of that which is around him and for him to relate with the environment.

Physical baby development can be broken up into three-month intervals and divided into two categories. One is gross motor skills and the other is fine motor skills.

Gross motor skills are the term, which is used to describe your baby’s ability to control different parts of his own body.

Fine motor skills refer to your baby’s level of harmonization of different body parts, such as picking up an object with his thumb and forefinger. These two skills indicate your baby development.

Infant muscle development starts at the head and works its way down. Baby development first starts with control over the neck muscles. Soon after that your baby learns to control the torso and finally leg muscles.