As a parent, your baby’s growth milestones is of utmost importance to you! Here’s a brief view on what you could expect from your child in his/her first three months:
0–1 Month:
Physical Milestones:
1. Growth: Most babies lose around 10% of their birth weight in the first few days which they normally regain by the end of the second week.
2. Motor Skills:
3. Sleep: Tends to sleep for 15-16 hours a day during the first three months
Cognitive development Milestones:
1. Smell: Babies like to smell sweet fragrances like their mother’s breast milk
2. Touch: Prefers soft touches and gets uncomfortable with coarse or abrupt handling
3. Eye Sight:
Can focus up to 8 to 12 inches away
Prefers black, red and white coloured things
Focuses more on a human face as compared to patterns
4. Hearing: Should turn towards familiar sounds and voices
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Eating/Feeding Milestones:
1. Breastfed babies 8-12 times a day (after every two to three hours)
2. Bottle Fed babies 6-8 times a day (150-200ml per kg of body weight in a day)
(Feeding pattern remains same for the first three months)
Communication and language milestones:
1–2 Months:
Physical Milestones:
1. Growth:
Drooling - as their salivary glands develop
Soft spot or fontanel of the head begins to close
2. Motor Skills:
Cognitive or Mental Milestones:
1. Eye Sight:
Can focus up to 18 inches away
Start following your close movements
Recognize the mother’s or father’s face
Pays attention to human faces
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2. Hearing:
Communication and language milestones:
2–3 Months:
Physical Milestones:
1. Growth: Upward trend in gaining weight and height
2. Motor Skills:
Cognitive or Mental Milestones:
1. Touch: Developed a new sense of touch towards textured things
2. Eye Sight:
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3. Hearing:
Communication and language milestones:
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