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3 months
  • Can push up on forearms
  • Can lift and hold up head while lying on tummy
  • Sucks and swallows well during feeding
  • Quiets or smiles in response to voices and other sounds
  • Coos or vocalizes other than crying
  • Eyes follow an object moving from side to side
  • Attempts to reach for a rattle held above chest
  • Keeps head in the middle to watch faces or toys

6 months

  • Can use hands to support self in sitting position
  • Rolls from back to tummy
  • Can support body weight with legs while standing
  • Begins to use consonant sounds when babbling ("dada")
  • Uses babbling to get attention
  • Begins to eat cereals and pureed foods
  • Reaches for a nearby toy while lying on tummy

9 months

  • Sits and reaches for toy without falling
  • Moves from tummy or back into sitting position
  • Crawls on hands and knees with alternate arm-and-leg movement
  • Increases variety of sounds and syllable combinations when babbling
  • Looks at familiar objects and people upon hearing their name
  • Begins to eat junior and mashed table foods
  • When sitting in a high chair, holds and drinks from a bottle
  • Explores and examines objects using both hands
  • Can turn several pages of a board book at once
  • Imitates others when playing

12 months

  • Pulls to stand up, and moves around by hanging onto furniture
  • Can stand alone and take several steps by self
  • Meaningfully uses words like “mama” and “dada”
  • Produces long strings of gibberish in social communication
  • Responds to simple commands such as, “come here”
  • Begins to use an open drinking cup
  • Feeds self with fingers
  • Can release objects into a container that has a large opening
  • Use thumb and index finger to pick up small objects

15 months

  • Walks independently and seldom falls
  • Squats to pick up toys
  • Has a vocabulary of 5 to 10 words
  • Imitates new words
  • Understands 50 words
  • Can stack two objects or blocks
  • Helps get self undressed
  • Holds and drinks from a cup

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