2-3 months
Milestones: 2-3 Months
Topics covered: Cognition, Movement, and Language
Milestones in Language:
During these couple of months, you may start to notice your child is producing more sounds, they will not be meaningful communication, but they are producing sounds other than crying! When interacting with them, they will start to react and smile. Infants at this age range will:
make cooing sounds
turn their head towards the direction where sound is coming from
make gurgling noises
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Milestones in Cognition:
While infants at this age are still extremely young and have are not able to cognitively understand much, you will notice that they will:
watch your movements
look at a toy for several seconds
pay attention to faces
Milestones in Movement:
As for movement, they are not capable of crawling and all that fun stuff just yet, but there are a few things they have the ability to do already during this time. They can:
raise their head when lying on stomach
grasp and shake hand toys
open and shut their hands
move their arms and legs