Babies Milestone-Patience(Time for Everything)

One of the first things we’re aware of as new parents is the long list of “Milestones”. If you’re like me, you must have asked a lot of questions from your mother, mother-in-law, friends who have children, even bought books about what and when babies do things for example what month they sit, crawl, walk, when they start solids, how to pet them to sleep, when they respond to sound, learn when other babies reached their milestone . And probably bought a diary to note every detail our child did like “Today baby rolled over for the first time!”, “Today baby ate solid food for the first time!”, “Today baby crawled for the first time!”.

But what about when you wait for your baby to reach a Milestone especially when you see another baby of same month doing something new, I remember i panicked when i saw my neighbours baby had 4 teeth and my baby had none. Well i learnt it was totally normal. Or you read books with a chart on other babies and when they reached their milestone?

I have had an education from mothers and learnt by experience, babies will reach that milestone

when they want to, just be patient, at some point i wondered when will baby sit, she sat eventually, then came crawling, ah she would use her belly, i felt worried but my mum and mother in law encouraged me, and they were telling me that everything was totally fine,  that she would soon progress to the more traditional crawl, that most children pass through that phase and she crawled did eventually, standing, walking....the key thing here is patience because babies are not robots and there is no award for doing it in time.

What i experienced in milestones from 0-12 months. And remember every child is different.

0-3 months: Baby eats, sleeps, crying, lifting heads, first baby smile

4-6 months: Recognises faces, can roll over, can play with his/her hands and legs, responds to sounds, sits without support and make funny sounds, playing with toys

7-9 months: Attaches to people she sees a lot, Crawl, making funny sounds, Eat solid food, Teething, Grabbing Object, waves goodbye, eat whatever i eat

10-12 months: Imitates body movements, stands, walk, first words, imitating sounds and words

As a mum what you can do is to support and guide them. If you baby has not yet reached her milestone, be patient, don’t panic because they are becoming what God wants them to be no matter what the path they may be.