Baby Growth Chart and Development Guide, Things a New Mom can’t be Apart of
As I became new mother for my little Jasmine, I always was wondering what she may be doing this month. At that moment, I can’t be apart of Baby Growth Chart and also Baby Development Guide to get an idea of my baby’s development milestones!
Baby Growth Chart tells you the correlation of baby’s weight gain each month. Mother should make sure her baby’s weight gain is in the range of “normal” area, which means the baby is not underweight or overweight.
If you require, you can have your own Baby Growth Chart from this sites:
www.mybirthcare.com
www.bigfrog.net
Besides baby growth chart, I also check Baby Development Guide every month. It showed me what kind of abilities a baby should have in every month of its first year of life.
Below is an example of Baby Development Guide (I just highlighted on some critical period).
Month 1.
- Moro reflex (reacts to sudden noise)
- Begin to smile
- Fix gaze at 8-12”
- Highly disorganized of daily patterns of sleeping, crying and eating.
- Two night feedings at night, 5-6 times daily.
- Move bowels 3-4 times daily
Month 2.
- May only have feeding once at night
- Respond to laugh sound
- Have a favorite sleeping position
- Enjoy bath time
- Move bowels twice daily
- Can awake to 10 hours a day and has 2-4 longer sleep period
- At night, sleep as long as 7 hours.
Month 4
- Squeals, babbles and laugh
- Smiles spontaneously
- Holds rattle
- Begin reaching object using both arms simultaneously
- Regular pattern of eating and sleeping
- Interval between feeding and bowel can be predicted
- Splashes in bath, kicks and lifts head
- Brings hand together
Month 6
- Plays with feet
- Follows path of dropping object
- Sits with support
- Begin recognize its name
- Ready for solids
- Begin to sleep through the night
- Imitates sound
- May hold own milk bottle
Month 9
- Creep and or crawl
- Start to say Mama or Dada
- Sit up well
- Understand a few words
- Pull to stand and cruise along furniture or wall
- Feed self holding cracker and drink from cup
- May fear bath
Month 12
- Lower self from standing to sitting without falling
- Wave goodbye
- Give hug or kiss
- Bang two cubes together
- Walk with support, may take a few steps alone
- Take three meals a day
- May have trouble sleeping
One thing you should remember that each baby is unique; some babies may perform an activity sooner or later while their development might be unpredictable. I suggest parents to discuss with pediatrician.
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