There are many important milestones in a baby’s first year, and it’s probably the most exciting phase in your baby’s life. He is constantly learning, and each new day will bring something different. In addition to this, he’ll change visually, and it’ll be fun deciding who he looks like in family resemblance.
Besides crying for attention, your baby will gurgle and make silly noises that mostly sound as though they are comfortable. In fact, the entire first year of your baby’s life is an experience that will fly by, and besides the routine feeding and changing, it’s also a big hurdle. It’s worthwhile if you’ve time to document milestones to do interesting reading in later years. Your child will enjoy reading about the many milestones too.
Key Developmental Milestones
These key milestones are known as major milestones. They include rolling over from the baby crawling position to sitting up easily, then onwards to standing, and possibly taking the first important steps in walking. Most 1-year-olds will usually sit without leaning on anything or being held up. They will belly crawl, scoot, or creep on hands and knees. Besides this, they will pull to standing up and move, usually holding on to furniture.
Babies enjoy hearing your happy praises as he achieves these milestones. Besides all this, the baby’s weight will grow to double once they reach 5 to 6 months of age. As a result, they will usually triple by their first birthday.
Crucial First-Year Development Milestone
In the same way, your baby develops weight-wise; it is also a crucial time for brain development. Their brain is developing by 80% in the first year by producing billions of cells, and in addition, a baby’s brain reaches over half of its adult size in the first three months of life. During the first year milestone, the brain cells are busy making millions of connections and, as a result, peak at about one year. This process is known as ‘pruning,’ They get eliminated if not used. The connections that babies regularly use are the ones that they keep.
The Essential Skills Set A Milestone
In addition to your baby growing in weight and producing lots of brain cells, it’s also equally important for growing in confidence, communication, and socialization skills. These skills help to protect the child from concerning disorders like public fear or social anxiety, which might be visible during the later years. Similarly, movement is one of the key experiences which promote all learning for babies. Their brains will grow through movement. In addition, introducing the correct movement experiences into your baby’s daily life will have a giant control on their brain growth and neurological expansion. The baby will succeed in all the fun and engaging activities. Babies get encouraged by everything, and this emotional growth will provide solid foundations for a future of learning, health, and happiness.
Never Hurry Your Baby
Give your child enough time and let them learn things at their own pace.
Maintaining a specific pace is equally important. Try not to hurry or bother your child during their development. Babies progress through each milestone at their own rate. Their brain needs lots of quality time to stimulate everything. Likewise, your baby will experience and practice to ‘wire up’ every new motor skill it learns. These movements and the quality of the actions within each stage of development will determine the amount of brain growth.
The correct early movement experiences are easy, natural, and fun, and as a parent, you can enjoy doing them with your baby.
Baby Talk Milestone
In addition to ongoing learning, your child will reach another milestone when they are a year old. They will probably begin speaking a few simple words. For instance, they will say ‘Ma-ma’ or ‘Da-da,’ or they may even try to speak easier words. For example, they might not speak the complete word such as ‘cat,’ but you’ll understand what your baby is trying to say. Your toddler will play happily with various early learning toys and utter baby talk and will bring a new adventure in some special form every day.
Cognitive Milestones
Babies achieve numerous milestones within the first year of their life.
- Your child will know the use of everyday objects, for example, a bath or a phone.
- They will follow simple instructions such as “blow me a kiss” or “sit down.”
- They will engage in simple pretend play, like feeding a favorite stuffed animal.
- The kid will be able to point toward their head, eyes, ears, nose, or mouth.
- The baby shall use exclamations, such as “oh-oh!”
- Baby will try to imitate words and respond to “no” and simple verbal requests.
- Will imitate simple gestures, such as shaking his head, “no,” and waving bye-bye
- In addition, the baby will explore objects in different ways, e.g., shaking, banging, throwing, and dropping.
- Begins to use objects correctly, e.g., drinking from a cup or brushing hair.
- Will find hidden objects easily.
- The baby will look at the correct picture when an image is named.