What are some of the developmental milestones my child should reach by seven months of age?
From age four to seven months, the most important changes take place within your child. This is the period when he’ll learn to coordinate his emerging perceptive abilities (the use of senses like vision, touch, and hearing) and his increasing motor abilities to develop skills like grasping, rolling over, sitting up, and possibly even crawling.
Here are some other milestones to look for.
Movement Milestones
- Rolls both ways (front to back, back to front)
- Sits with, and then without, support of her hands
- Supports her whole weight on her legs
- Reaches with one hand
- Transfers object from hand to hand
- Uses raking grasp (not pincer)
Visual Milestones
- Develops full color vision
- Distance vision matures
- Ability to track moving objects improves
Language Milestones
- Responds to own name
- Begins to respond to “no”
- Distinguishes emotions by tone of voice
- Responds to sound by making sounds
- Uses voice to express joy and displeasure
- Babbles chains of consonants
Cognitive Milestones
- Finds partially hidden object
- Explores with hands and mouth
- Struggles to get objects that are out of reach
Social and Emotional Milestones
- Enjoys social play
- Interested in mirror images
- Responds to other people’s expressions of emotion and appears joyful often
Last Updated 6/7/2009
Source Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 (Copyright © 2009 American Academy of Pediatrics)
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