What are the developmental milestones for babies within the first 2 months?
From zero to two months, especially in that first month, you shouldn't expect a lot of development from your child. It's very normal that your child stares right through you - maybe even a little cross-eyed, or stares up at a light or a ceiling fan, but doesn't watch you when they move. This is very normal. This doesn't mean that anything is going wrong with your child's development. But at around six to eight weeks of age, we want to see the child to start to fix on you, on your face and watch you move. Now I'm not suggesting that they should watch you move across the room, it should be more like when you move from here to here - just fixing and following. And also maybe smiling in response to you, which is called a "social smile". Babies will smile in their sleep or with gas, but at around six to eight weeks is when you start seeing a social smile, another sign of development. This is also the time where babies start cooing and making little cute noises when they're awake. And when you put them on their stomach they'll start lifting their head 45 degrees above their back. So the four big development milestones I look at around 2 months are: a social smile, fixing and following, cooing, and lifting their head.
