Every day of your new baby's life brings about new activities they are going to be developing.
Knowing what your child is going to be doing next will help you know that your baby is developing normally.
For the first month you will notice your child beginning to exercise its muscles.
This will demonstrate by short periods of lifting and moving its head and by making jerky arm and leg movements.
Your new baby will try to turn towards familiar sounds and will blink at a strong light as it had previously been used to the dark.
By the time your baby has been experimenting with the world around it for a couple of months, it will be learning to smile, follow objects visually and start making its first attempts at repeating sounds.
These activities will increase in proficiency over the next few months.
Your baby will be more aware of the world around it and respond appropriately to color, movement and sounds.
Your baby will be starting to sleep through the night.
The baby will begin rolling over and grasping at objects.
Around five months, your baby will begin the teething process and by a half year in age will be sitting by itself and holding its bottle.
By the seventh month, your child will be starting to feed itself with hand held foods, start playing more complicated games like peekaboo and imitate many more sounds.
By the eighth and ninth months your child will be sitting up by itself and will be demonstrating its preferences in food, toys and the people around it.
At this time your child will begin showing parental separation anxiety.
Sometime around the tenth month your child will learn to stand by itself.
It will understand the "no" command and will be much more dexterous in manipulating its toys.
By the first birthday, your child will be able to recognize itself in a mirror, be crawling and pulling on items to see what they do and other experimental exercises with the world around it.
The big adventure of discovering the world is at hand!