Important Milestones: By the End of 7 Months
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Topics: All Developmental Milestones (Ages 3-5)
Babies develop at their own pace, so it's impossible to tell exactly when your child will learn a given skill. The developmental milestones listed below will give you a general idea of the changes you can expect, but don't be alarmed if your own baby's development takes a slightly different course.
Social and Emotional
- Enjoys social play
- Interested in mirror images
- Responds to other people's expressions of emotion and appears joyful often
Cognitive
- Finds partially hidden object
- Explores with hands and mouth
- Struggles to get objects that are out of reach
Language
- Responds to own name
- Begins to respond to "no"
- Can tell emotions by tone of voice
- Responds to sound by making sounds
- Uses voice to express joy and displeasure
- Babbles chains of sounds
Movement
- Rolls both ways (front to back, back to front)
- Sits with, and then without, support on hands
- Supports whole weight on legs
- Reaches with one hand
- Transfers object from hand to hand
- Uses hand to rake objects
Vision
- Develops full color vision
- Distance vision matures
- Ability to track moving objects improves
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Reprinted with the permission of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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