Your baby will:

Birth to 3 months

• Pay special attention to faces and enjoys listening to human voices.
• Be comforted by being held.
• Move arms and legs.
• Cry a lot to tell you what he or she needs.
• Coo and vocalize.
• Smile when you speak to him or her.
• Sleep five to six hours at night and take three naps a day.

3 to 6 months

• Squeal, coo, smile and laugh.
• Roll from stomach to back and back to stomach.
• Hold a rattle and bring it to the mouth and from hand to hand.
• Sit with support.
• Bring feet to mouth and grab toes.
• Hold head erect, raise body on hands, arch back and rock when on stomach.
• Cry when left alone in a room.
• Recognize strangers and maybe begin to have some anxiety.

6 to12 months

• Sit up without help.
• Scoot around on his or her stomach and eventually crawl.
• Begin to pull up holding onto furniture and walk around it.
• Wave goodbye.
• Repeat sounds you make.
• Look at and study things for a long time.
• Sit down from a standing position.
• Walk if hands are held.
• Hold a cup.
• Play pat-a-cake.

Source: The La Crosse Kids Committee, Rotary Club of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc.

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