Your Baby at Four Months
Date: 12/31/19
MHS and Project Home Indy care about you and your baby. How your child plays, learns, speaks and acts offers important clues about his or her development. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age.
Check the milestones your child has reached by the end of four months.
What most babies do at this age:
Social/emotional:
- Smiles spontaneously, especially at people
- Likes to play with people and might cry when playing stops
- Copies some movements and facial expressions, like smiling or frowning
Language/communication:
- Begins to babble
- Babbles with expression and copies sounds he hears
- Cries in different ways to show hunger, pain or being tired
Cognitive:
- Lets you know if she is happy or sad
- Responds to affection
- Reaches for toy with one hand
- Uses hands and eyes together, such as seeing a toy and reaching for it
- Follows moving things with eyes from side to side
- Watches faces closely
- Recognizes familiar people and things at a distance
Movement/physical development:
- Holds head steady, unsupported
- Pushes down on legs when feet are on a hard surface
- May be able to roll over from tummy to back
- Can hold a toy and shake it and swing at dangling toys
- Brings hands to mouth
- When lying on stomach, pushes up to elbows
Talk to your child’s doctor if your child:
- Doesn’t watch things as they move
- Doesn’t smile at people
- Can’t hold head steady
- Doesn’t coo or make sounds
- Doesn’t bring hands to mouth
- Doesn’t push down with legs when feet are placed on a hard surface
- Has trouble moving one or both eyes in all directions
MHS can help you make your baby’s well-child appointment. We can also help you schedule a free ride to and from the appointment. Please call us at 1-877-647-4848, ext. 20404.
MHS and Project Home Indy want to be helpful resources during this exciting time!