Articles & Expert Guides on Baby Milestones

Medically-reviewed expert guides, tips, real-life stories, and articles on Baby Milestones

2 Week Old Baby: Feeding, Care, Sleep & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

7 Week Old Baby: Feeding, Care, Sleep & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

12 Week Old Baby: Feeding, Care, Sleep & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

11 Week Old Baby: Feeding, Care, Sleep & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

10 Week Old Baby: Feeding, Care, Sleep & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

9 Week Old Baby: Feeding, Care, Sleep & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

8 Week Old Baby: Feeding, Care, Sleep & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

5 Week Old Baby: Feeding, Care, Sleep & What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

When Do Babies Learn Their Name?

Katie Mill

When Do Babies Get Tears?

Katie Mill

7 Stages of Crawling: The Ultimate Survival Guide for Parents

Tassia O'Callaghan

When Do Babies See Color?

Tassia Agatowski

5 Cute and Fun Half Birthday Ideas

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

6 Week Old Baby: What to Expect

Tassia O'Callaghan

16-Month-Old Baby: Milestones & Development

Team Peanut

15-Month-Old Baby: Milestones & Development

Team Peanut

When Does the Startle Reflex Go Away?

Deborah Vieyra

10 Brilliant First Birthday Themes for a Day to Remember

Team Peanut

When Do Babies Lose Their Hair? And Why?

Team Peanut

How Far Can Babies See? Your Baby’s Week-by-Week Vision Guide

Tassia O'Callaghan

From the community

How to help 2.5year old son

Hi everyone, I’m looking for some advice. My son is 2.5 and is currently non-verbal/struggles to communicate. He also finds busy environments really overwhelming.

I feel like I’m getting very little advice or support at the moment, and I’m worried about just being told to wait until he starts nursery. I really want to help him communicate now and give him ways to express what he wants and needs.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? What helped your child communicate at this age — PECS, communication boards, Makaton, AAC/apps, speech therapy, or anything else? I’d really appreciate any practical advice or recommendations for where I can get help. ❤️

Baby needs constant stimulation

My baby very rarely can just sit and chill. He needs me to be there and entertain him / talk to him. He’s approaching 3 months. I find it difficult to just leave him in his bouncer or play mat and get on with things. He gets bored really quickly. I always speak to him but he needs to see me otherwise he starts whinging. Is this normal?

Screaming

Is everyone else’s 5 month old screaming bloody murder 24/7?
When he s distracted nothing. As soon as he s bored he just scream like crazy. As soon as I pick him up (sometimes not even that stops him) or he’s getting his attention to something else he s quiet. Is really hard to hear him screaming like that but he learns how to be picked up as soon as he makes a bit of noise and I don’t like it…

Tips on de escalating tantrums and encouraging respect and patience ?? (17 month old )

I’m in the trenches and up for suggestions 😅 ( nothing that includes physical discipline or screaming ) I also know this is part developmental but I’m really wanting to foster calm , confidence and respect in my child to feel secure growing up

Speech

Hi everyone. My little boys is now 2. He has a slight tongue tie which wasn’t revised as an infant as it was discovered too late. He only has about 5 clear words and about 10 sounds that he uses instead of a word but we know exactly what he’s saying. Anyone else’s little ones not talking yet. I’m starting to get really worried about his speech but we have been unable to get in touch with this HV

Baby sounds

My baby is 5 and a half months he started babbling and screaming about a month ago but since then ive noticed he's stopped anyone else?

Crawling/Forward movement

My LO who just turned 4 month old can roll both ways for last 2-3 weeks. It was fine until she flips on her tummy within one second of putting her down. It doesn't stop there, she is using both arms and feet to move forward and she does manage to get ahead a tiny bit. I don't mind whatever she naturally wants to do but this comes with several minutes of grunting, getting tired and frustrated at herself. What do I do? Send help 🥲

11 month old showing signs ?

11-month-old’s development — would love some reassurance/perspectives

My daughter is 11 months old and overall seems like a very happy, active, curious baby. I’ve become quite anxious about autism after reading too much online, and I’d really appreciate some honest perspectives from other parents.

She has good eye contact and smiles at us. She responds to her name and familiar words such as “water”, “bye bye” and “come here”. She babbles “mama”, “dada”, “tatata” and sometimes “aja” (Urdu for come here). She waves bye-bye when prompted, claps, gives high-fives/salaam, reaches her arms up to be picked up and follows us if we leave the room. She crawls over to me and often sits on my feet or wants to be picked up. She also looks where I point and sometimes looks back at me after something exciting happens.

She imitates things like coughing, sticking her tongue out and facial expressions, enjoys songs and silly noises, and likes playing with us. She can be a little wary of unfamiliar people and often comes back towards me.

Physically she crawls everywhere, pulls herself to stand, cruises along furniture, transfers objects between hands, has a pincer grip and feeds herself finger foods. She is extremely active and constantly wants to explore/climb/move.

The things that have made me worry are:

* She sometimes shakes her head from side to side, although this comes and goes and can happen while playing/teething.
* She sometimes rotates/twirls her wrist, particularly when excited or when trying to get our attention.
* She waves with quite a wristy movement, although she only really does it when asked to wave or when saying goodbye.
* She sometimes waves/throws her arms around when excited.
* She bounces/slams herself forward and backwards on the sofa when excited.
* She sometimes takes food out of her mouth, touches/squishes it and then puts it back in.
* She is VERY active and doesn’t sit still for long.
* She doesn’t particularly enjoy cuddling or lying still on me, although she does seek me out and wants to be picked up/touch me in other ways.

She hasn’t had any clear loss of skills. There are just days where she might not wave or do a particular gesture she did the day before.

I know some of these behaviours can be seen in autistic children, but I’m struggling to understand what is actually meaningful at this age versus completely normal baby behaviour.

Would you say her overall social communication sounds reassuring for an 11-month-old? And are any of these individual behaviours things you’d genuinely be concerned about, or am I overinterpreting normal baby behaviours?

6-8 weeks baby

Mums with babies around 6–8 weeks — did your baby suddenly become super clingy? 😭

My little one is 6 weeks old and suddenly wants to be held ALL the time. He’s fed, changed and absolutely fine, but the minute I put him down he cries. As soon as I pick him up, walk around with him or let him comfort suck, he’s happy again 😂

He’s also suddenly much more alert, looking at us, smiling and having longer wake windows.

Is this a phase around this age? Please tell me I’m not alone because my arms need a break 😂

Toddlers losing toys 😃

Anyone else feel like all the toys disappeared from their house?🤣 my daughter is 18 months and today I was cleaning her room and I realised I haven’t seen ms rachel doll in about 3 to 4 months and she also had the whole Peppa Pig family teddy bears 2sets of them that she used to sleep with and now they’re nowhere to be seen 🫣