Baby development – First 3 months | Developmental steps in the baby

Baby development – First 3 months

The social contact or interaction with the environment without language includes, until the third month of life, the observation and viewing of faces, the return of a smile and the spontaneous smile of the infant. The development of speech until the end of the third month of life is only slightly different from the first 9 weeks of life. The infant should laugh from time to time, make “chirp” and other sounds, and respond to sounds made to him.

By the end of the third month of life, the infant’s eyes should be movable in all directions (when tracking an object). He should clap his hands together from time to time and try to touch or grasp an object placed in front of him. In addition to the learned lifting of the head in prone position, which should become better and better by strengthening the muscles, the infant between the second and third month of life starts to support himself in prone position also occasionally on the forearms.

Baby development – 3rd -6th month

Already at the beginning of the sixth month of life, the baby begins to be more reserved and “shy” towards unknown persons or to be afraid. This is a natural process of development. In addition, the baby is able to continue to perform the previous skills learned or acquired up to six months of age.

Between the sixth and seventh month of life, the baby’s fine motor skills, i.e. the ability to perform more precise movements, continue to develop. The so-called thumb-finger grip is a typical sign of this. When grasping, the baby extends the index finger and thumb and grasps with the remaining three fingers. The skills acquired so far are now supplemented, if necessary, by sitting without help and standing with holding on tight.

Development of the baby – 7th – 8th month

The social development until the eighth month of life differs little from the previous development. Only at the beginning of the eighth month of life do the babies make further significant progress in development. Also the linguistic development hardly changes in comparison to what is learned until the seventh month of life.

In addition to the thumb-finger grip, the child is now able to hit objects such as building blocks against each other. Up to now, the baby was able to stand on its own when it was holding on. However, standing up on its own was previously rather untypical. Now the baby starts to pull up on objects in order to stand up. In addition, the baby can now manage to sit up by itself.