Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Child health and Milestones

 It's been a while that i was not able to update this blog. Now i will be updating it regularly.

I am also planning to add a section about child health, diet and milestone.

0-3 Month Milestones

Motor Milestones

  • While lying on tummy, pushes up on arms
  • While lying on tummy, lifts and holds head up
  • Able to move fists from closed to open
  • Able to bring hands to mouth
  • Moves legs and arms off of surface when excited

Sensory Milestones

  • While lying on back, attempts to reach for a toy held above their chest
  • While lying on back, visually tracks a moving toy from side to side
  • While lying on back, keeps head centered to watch faces or toys
  • Able to calm with rocking, touching, and gentle sounds
  • Enjoys a variety of movements

Communication Milestones

  • Quiets or smiles in response to sound or voice
  • Turns head towards sound or voice
  • Shows interest in faces
  • Makes eye contact
  • Cries differently for different needs (e.g. hungry vs. tired)
  • Coos and smiles

Feeding Milestones

  • Latches onto nipple or bottle
  • Tongue moves forward and back to suck
  • Drinks 2 oz. to 6 oz. of liquid per feeding, 6 times per day
  • Sucks and swallows well during feeding

4-6 Month Milestones

Motor Milestones

  • Uses hands to support self while sitting
  • Rolls from back to tummy and tummy to back
  • While standing with support, accepts entire weight with legs
  • Reaches for nearby toys while on tummy
  • While lying on back, reaches both hands to play with feet
  • While lying on back, transfers a toy from one hand to the other

Sensory Milestones

  • Uses both hands to explore toys
  • Generally happy when not hungry or tired
  • Brings hands and objects to mouth
  • Able to calm with rocking, touching, and gentle sounds
  • Is not upset by everyday sounds
  • Enjoys a variety of movements

Communication Milestones

  • Reacts to sudden noises or sounds
  • Listens and responds when spoken to
  • Begins to use consonant sounds in babbling, e.g. “da, da, da”
  • Makes different kinds of sounds to express feelings
  • Notices toys that make sounds
  • Uses babbling to get attention

Feeding Milestones

  • Shows interest in food
  • Opens mouth as spoon approaches
  • Moves pureed food from front of mouth to back
  • Begins to eat cereals and pureed foods – Smooth, pureed food (single ingredient only), like carrots, sweet potato, squash, apples, pears

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7-9 Month Milestones

Motor Milestones

  • Sits without support
  • Sits and reaches for toys without falling
  • Moves from tummy or back into sitting
  • Starts to move with alternate leg and arm movement e.g. creeping, crawling
  • Picks up head and pushes through elbows during Tummy Time
  • Turns head to visually track objects while sitting
  • Shows more control while rolling and sitting
  • Picks up small objects with thumbs and fingers
  • In simple play imitates others

Sensory Milestones

  • Enjoys a variety of movements – bouncing up and down, rocking back and forth
  • Explores and examines an object using both hands and mouth
  • Turns several pages of a chunky (board) book at once
  • Experiments with the amount of force needed to pick up different objects
  • Focuses on objects near and far
  • Investigates shapes, sizes, and textures of toys and surroundings
  • Observes environment from a variety of positions – while lying on back or tummy, sitting, crawling, and standing with assistance

Communication Milestones

  • Uses increased variety of sounds and syllable combinations in babbling
  • Looks at familiar objects and people when named
  • Recognizes sound of their name
  • Participates in two-way communication
  • Follows some routine commands when paired with gestures
  • Shows recognition of commonly used words
  • Simple gestures, e.g. shaking head for “no”
  • Imitates sounds

Feeding Milestones

  • In a highchair, holds and drinks from a bottle
  • Begins to eat thicker pureed and mashed table foods
  • Enjoys chew toys that can massage sore and swollen gums during teething
  • Stays full longer after eating
  • Starts to look and reach for objects, such as, food that is nearby
  • Shows strong reaction to new smells and tastes

10-12 Month Milestones

Motor Milestones

  • Pulls to stand and cruises along furniture
  • Stands alone and takes several independent steps
  • Moves in and out of various positions to explore environment and get desired toys
  • Maintains balance in sitting when throwing objects
  • Claps hands
  • Releases objects into a container with a large opening
  • Uses thumb and pointer finger to pick up tiny objects

Sensory Milestones

  • Enjoys listening to songs
  • Explores toys with fingers and mouth
  • Crawls to or away from objects baby sees in the distance

Communication Milestones

  • Meaningfully uses “mama” or “dada”
  • Responds to simple directions, e.g. “Come here”
  • Produces long strings of gibberish (jargoning) in social communication
  • Says one or two words
  • Imitates speech sounds
  • Babbling has sounds and rhythms of speech
  • Pays attention to where you are looking and pointing
  • Responds to “no”
  • Begins using hand movements to communicate wants and needs, e.g. reaches to be picked up

Feeding Milestones

  • Finger feeds self
  • Eating an increasing variety of food
  • Begins to use an open cup
  • Ready to try soft-cooked vegetables, soft fruits, and finger foods (banana slices, cooked pasta)
  • Might be ready to start self feeding with utensils
  • Enjoys a greater variety of smells and tastes

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13-18 Month Milestones

Motor Milestones

  • Walks independently
  • Squats to pick up a toy
  • Stacks two objects

Sensory Milestones

  • Helps with getting dressed/undressed
  • Has a regular sleep schedule
  • Eats an increasing variety of foods

Communication Milestones

By 15 months:

  • May use 5-10 words
  • Combines sounds and gestures
  • Imitates simple words and actions
  • Consistently follows simple directions
  • Shows interest in pictures
  • Can identify 1-2 body parts when named
  • Understands 50 words

By 18 months:

  • Responds to questions
  • Repeats words overheard in conversation
  • Continues to produce speech-like babbling
  • Points at familiar objects and people in pictures
  • Understands “in” and “on”
  • Responds to yes/no questions with head shake/nod

Feeding Milestones

  • Increases variety of coarsely chopped table foods
  • Holds and drinks from a cup

19-24 Month Milestones

Communication Milestones

By 21 Months:

  • Uses at least 50 words
  • Consistently imitates new words
  • Names objects and pictures
  • Understands simple pronouns (me, you, my)
  • Identifies 3-5 body parts when named
  • Understands new words quickly

By 24 months:

  • Begins to use 2 word phrases
  • Uses simple pronouns (me, you, my)
  • Understands action words
  • Uses gestures and words during pretend play
  • Follows 2-step related directions e.g. “Pick up your coat and bring it to me”
  • Enjoys listening to stories

2-3 Year Milestones

Communication Milestones

By 30 Months:

  • Consistently uses 2-3 word phrases
  • Uses “in” and “on”
  • At least 50% of speech is understood by caregiver
  • Follows 2-step unrelated directions, e.g. “give me the ball and go get your coat”
  • Understands basic nouns and pronouns
  • Understands “mine” and “yours”

By 36 months:

  • Asks “what” and “where” questions
  • Uses plurals, e.g. “dogs”
  • Most speech is understood by caregiver
  • Simple understanding of concepts including color, space, time
  • Understands “why” questions
  • Understands most simple sentences

Missing Milestones

What to do if your child is not reaching their key developmental milestones

If your child is missing a developmental milestone, request an appointment with a healthcare provider to ask them about how you can get your baby on track!

Remember every baby is different, and milestones typically occur within a general age range.

Baby’s early years are some of the most important years for their development, which is why early detection and early intervention are so critical.


Thursday, August 11, 2016

Anant Vashishtha went to USA

It's been long that i have not updated this blog. I will now update it frequently. My son my life went to USA to meet his uncle, aunt and cousins in USA Minnesota along with his grandparents. He went on 26th April 2016 and returned on 23rd July 2016. It was a long period of 3 months and we missed him  a lot.

He had a great time their in the USA with his cousins specially with the new born Ansh. Ansh is new member in our family. Anat loves him a lot and takes care of him.


Friday, August 1, 2014

Anant participating in various activities.

Anant is growing so are his activities and naughtiness. He is getting naughty day by day. enjoying latest songs and singing has become his passion. Last week there was inter class poem recitation competition and he participated in it with full enthu but does not got any prize

Now as all of us know festival season is going to begin so the excitement of children and elders in the family. all waiting to buy new clothes, accessories nd gifts for relatives.

Anant now ask others to visit him instaed of he going to see them or visit them. as pe him he has visit all those relatives so many times but they have come once or twice, so insists others to come and visit us.

Now rakhi is coming and he wants to get bestes gifts for his cousins Riddhi and Siddhi.

So weekends of our totally booked for shopping with my little prince.Hope he does not insist to buy things which we don't like.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Schools reopen after summer vacations

After vacations today is the first day of school. Anant very excited to meet his teachers and friends. Much excitement to show his holiday homework to his teacher.

In vacations he has completed his all holiday home work and traveled to Alwar, Delhi. In alwar he spent good time with his cousins and grandparents. Whole day children's gang playing games one or the other. ohh gosh they have so much of stamina, they can play whole day without taking any rest.

This is the childhood, best phase of life, away from all worries of life.

Let's hope after vacations Anant enjoy his first day at school.


Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Anant Enjoying cake

Anant has started reading and writing. He can write counting 1-10 and can write alphabets A-Z with some help. He is becoming more adorable as time passes. Mama misses him a lot but you can say some constraints in life keeping him away from parents.


I am planning to leave job and stay with my baby.

Anant loves cake and Pizza. See the pic how he is enjoying cake. It's March and he still has to go to school till 22nd March. He was there in Gurgaon with us from last few days, he came with his grandparents on 15th March night as his Tauzi will be coming to India from USA on 16th. Time is running so fast that if it would have been in my hands i would have stopped it. Tomorrow i.e 20th morning he will be going to Alwar and now i will be seeing him on 27th March(Holi celebration).

I am getting negative vibes everywhere whether home or work place, but hope to do something better. My son keeps me full of energy and life.

Check his photos.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Anant a school going Boy


Days are passing and Anant is also growing day by day with lots of naughtiness in him. Anant has started going to School and his first day in school 9th July 2012. He is in Nursery brown, my little prince has lots to learn. On the first day we all went to leave him in the school. 

Anant carried his water bottle. Mickey mouse bag and tiffin. On first day we had given him crunchy and biscuits his favourite one. Second day we gave him sabzi and parantha and you know whenever we ask him to eat food he asks for milk and literlly in the school he asked for the milk. When returned home he throw his bag and tiffin in the garden and said to his grandma “School main to doodho bhi nahi milta, mam ne mujhe nahi diya"when he was saying all this he was so innocent and unaware of the truth about the school.

In school he is very sincere and obedient but at home he is opposite of it. He wants us to do all that he wants. Chota hai par ajab-gajab ka gola hai. 

Now he is enjoying school and whenever he gets lots of homework first thing he wants is to finish his work. God bless him and give all he wants. All the best my Chotu- Anant Vashishtha.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Language development


Now my sweety is getting naughty day by day.He is trying to learn new things.He has completed 2 years on 26th September 2011 and acting as if he has grown up.

Some word he try to speak but can not speak as they are like we say Sadak(road) and his version turns to be "Sakat" really funny. Other word he speaks is "Gambal" for Garam(hot).

He calls his grandmother - ma, and grandfather sometimes dada ji and sometimes Abha name of his grandmother.

Now he can loves car and other stuff like trains, bike etc.