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Your baby's developmental milestones at 2 months
Everything you need to know about your growing 2-month-old
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Your 2-month-old is wide-eyed and curious, smiling at faces and engaging with everything around her/him. Babies at this age are social and love to interact. Here is how your little one will be growing, learning and changing during this sweet age.
Social and emotional milestones at 2 months
Some of the ways you’ll see your little one learning to connect with the people around her at 2 months.
- Can self-soothe by sucking on her hand.
- Starting to smile at others.
- Attempting to look at her parents.
Tips for parents
- Engage in skin-to-skin contact. Your warmth will help soothe her.
- Hold your baby close to your face and make eye contact. This will help your little one learn your features.
Language and communication milestones at 2 months
How your baby is engaging and expressing his needs.
- Alerted by sounds and turns toward them.
- Making cooing noises.
Tips for parents
- Have “conversations” with your baby when he makes cooing noises by speaking back to him in a baby talk voice. This back and forth is important for helping him to develop language and communication skills.
Brain development milestones at 2 months
Your child’s brain is growing!
- Beginning to track people and objects with her eyes.
- Starting to get fussy if she’s feeling bored.
- Paying attention to the faces she sees.
Tips for parents
- Say the names of the objects or people your little one is showing interest in.
Movement and physical development milestones at 2 months
How he’ll move through his environment.
- Arm and leg motions will be smoother.
- Can push up while on his belly and hold his head up.
Tips for parents
- Participate in tummy-time with your little one by facing your baby and speaking with him while he is placed on his stomach in front of you.
- Encourage him to move his head, arms and legs by moving safe toys around him.
Food and nutrition milestones at 2 months
What mealtimes look like at 2 months.
- All of the nutrition your baby needs can be found in breastmilk.
- She’ll easily suck and swallow during feeding.
- Her tongue will move back and forward to suck.
- She’ll latch onto her mother’s nipple or a bottle.
Tips for parents
- You should see signs of hunger about 8 to 12 times in 24 hours. Newborn babies need to eat a lot because they’re growing rapidly. They double their birth weight in the first six months of life, or before.
Things to look out for
While all babies develop differently, you should speak to your paediatrician if your 2-month-old:
- Can’t latch while nursing or bottle feeding.
- Loses a lot of breastmilk or formula out of the side of his mouth while feeding.
- Won’t smile at people.
- Doesn’t bring his hands to his mouth.
- Has no response to loud noises.
- Doesn’t track people and objects as they move.
- Is unable to hold his head up while on his tummy.