31 Mar 2016 | 5 min Read
Prachi Arora
Author | 28 Articles
Watching your baby growing and changing is always exciting and if you have been watching this space, you were already awaiting this article! So, here’s the complete guide on your baby’s upcoming developmental milestones between 3-6 months, start noting them today!
3 – 4 Month:
Physical Milestones:
Growth:
This month you can expect a weight gain of 250 grams to 500 grams, which is comparatively less than the first three months.
1. Motor Skills:
2. Sleep:
Cognitive development Milestones:
1. Eyesight:
2. Touch
Eating/Feeding Milestones:
1. Breastfed babies – 8-10 times a day or on demand (after every three to four hours)
2. Bottle Fed babies – 6-8 times a day (150-200ml per kg of body weight in a day)
(This will remain same during the 3-5 months)
Communication and language milestones:
1. Starts babbling with vowel sounds
2. Cries to get a response
Social and Emotional Milestones:
1. Uses face to express different emotions
2. Understands your emotions from your voice and face expressions
3. Deliberately drops objects to communicate and play
4. Smiles more often, especially at human faces
5. Mimics movements and expressions
4 – 5 Months:
Physical Milestones:
1. Growth:
2. Motor Skills:
Cognitive or Mental Milestones:
1. Eye Sight:
2. Hearing:
Communication and language milestones:
1. Makes continuous sounds to get a response
2. Babbles as in making real words’ sound
Social and Emotional Milestones:
1. Laughs on showing funny faces or making different sounds
2. Smiles while looking in the mirror
3. Looks at new people in a public place
5 – 6 Months:
Physical Milestones:
1. Growth:
2. Motor Skills:
Cognitive or Mental Milestones:
1. Eye Sight:
2. Taste
Eating/Feeding Milestones:
1. With breastfeed or bottle, may take 1-2 teaspoon of cereals
Communication and language milestones:
1. Responds to sounds by making sounds in return
2. Understands the word “no” and stops when hears “no”
3. Babbles and make sounds in turn with parents
4. Actively responds when his/her name is called out
Social and Emotional Milestones:
1. Shows early signs of stranger anxiety
2. Loves to play with parents or with familiar faces
Red Flags: When to contact your paediatrician
By 4 month | By 5 month | By 6 month |
• Doesn’t try to mimic sounds or babble • Doesn’t mouth objects at all • Doesn’t push down with legs when feet are on a stable surface • Poor head control • Always keeps hands in a fist • Crossing eyes most of the time | • Doesn’t roll over in either direction • Doesn’t try to grab objects which are in reach • Doesn’t make vowel sounds • Doesn’t make eye contact at all • Doesn’t respond to loud sounds | • Can’t sit with help • Doesn’t laugh or make yelling sounds • Seems very stiff or floppy • Doesn’t follow moving objects • Doesn’t make any sound |
Also read more about: Development of the baby: 0-4 weeks, Development Of The Baby: 4 Weeks To 8 weeks, Development of your little one – Birth to 36 Months, A complete guide to baby’s developmental milestones from 0-3 Months
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