Can your newborn to five month old do this?
- Feel, taste, smell, and hear
- Move arms and legs in play
- Cry when in need of something
- Enjoy being held and spoken to
- See things 8”-12” away
- Begin to turn head
- Make eye contact
- Look at clear simple pictures or designs
- Grasp a small thing briefly
- Make cooing sounds
- Lift head to look around
- Smile
- Follow with eyes from side to side
- Reach toward a toy show happy and sad feelings by making sounds
- Watch your mouth when you talk
- Hold and shake a small toy
- See things farther than 12 inches away
- Look at hands and feet
- Bat or hit at things
- Support head and chest with arms when on stomach
- Try to roll over
- Reach out when on stomach
- Watch moving things
- Answer a sound you make with another sound
- Try to pull up to a sitting position
- Bounce when held in a standing position
- Enjoy looking in a mirror
- Hold something in either hand
- Play peek-a-boo
- Recognize familiar people
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