What are the developmental milestones for babies 2 to 3 months?
Well, the 2 to 3 month development is actually one of my favorite months of development, because so many things happen. When parents come back at that 3 month-old visit, this is when they say, “I really feel like my child’s interacting with me, they’re not just a lump-on-a-log anymore,” – no offense to the babies out there. But, basically what happens is development goes from peripheral to central. And at 2 months, and before, your child actually doesn’t know their hands and feet exist. They don’t know they have their body. Their world is all out here. And that’s why you see them laying on their back with their arms and legs splayed out. Sometimes they hit themselves in the face, sometimes they get their hand in their mouth, but, for the most part, development is peripheral. Well, from month 2 to month 3, and beyond, development becomes central. So, their posture changes – it goes from out, to now more in, where they hold their hands and their body in toward the center. They start look
