Motor Development Milestones

• Learns to roll from stomach to back with help
• Learns to roll from back to stomach with help
• May sit erect when supported
• Begins to show interest in holding a rattle and can do with some success
• Reaches for objects with both arms simultaneously; later reaches with one hand
• Reaches for toys
• Holds objects
• Reaches for feet and brings them to mouth
• Moves toys from hand to hand
• Begins to stand locking knees and bearing some weight when held and supported
• Turns head to localized sounds
• Follows people with eyes and turns head to keep in view

Cognitive Development Milestones

• Uses hand, mouth, and eyes to explore own body, toys, and surroundings
• Focuses eyes on smaller objects and may reach for them
• Attracted to bright light and interested in colored objects
• Indicates a desire to be picked up with some gesture or specific cry
• Focuses on the action(s) performed by objects such as banging or shaking
• Turns head towards and locates familiar voices and sounds