Developmmental Milestones

3 Months

At 3 months of Age, most babies:

• Turn their head toward bright colors and light
• No longer “cross their eyes” while trying to focus.  They move both their eyes in the same direction at one time
• Recognize bottle or breast
• Respond to their mother’s voice
• Make cooing sounds
• Bring their hands together
• Wiggle and kick their arms and legs
• Lift their head while lying on their stomach
• Become quiet in response to sound, especially to speech
• Smile

6 Months

At 6 months of age, most babies:

• Follow moving objects with their eyes
• Turn toward the source of normal sound
• Reach for objects and pick them up
• Switch toys from one hand to the other
• Play with their toes
• Help hold the bottle during feeding
• Recognize familiar faces
• Imitate speech sounds
• Respond to soft sounds, especially talking
• Roll over

12 Months

At 12 months of age, most babies:

• Get to a sitting position
• Pull to a standing position
• Stand briefly without support
• Crawl
• Imitate adults using a cup or a telephone
• Play peek-a-boo and patty-cake
• Wave goodbye
• Put objects in a container
• Say at least one word
• Make “ma-ma” or “da-da” sounds

18 Months

At 18 months of age, most children:

• Like to push and pull objects
• Say at least six words
• Follow simple directions (“bring the ball”)
• Pull of their 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 or try to use words to ask for things
• Say “no”, shake their head or push away things they don’t want

2 Years

At 2 years of age, most children:

• Use two-to-three word sentences
• Say about 50 words
• Recognize familiar pictures
• Kick a ball forward
• Feel themselves with a spoon
• Demand a lot of your attention
• Turn two or three pages together
• Like to imitate their parent
• Identify their hair, eyes, ears and nose by pointing
• Build a tower of four blocks
• Show affection

3 Years

At 3 years of age, most children:

• 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