Your baby’s development in their fourth month
Receptive Language
Watches speaker’s/signer’s hands/face
Recognizes parent/caregiver by sight/sound
Stops crying when comforted
Expressive Language
Smiles when smiled at
Babbles manually and/or vocally
Laughs
Cognitive
Reaches for toy with one hand
Begins tracking objects with eyes
Social
Begins to show varied facial expressions
May try to copy movements
Motor
Raises head in line with trunk when pulled to sit
Pushes up on forearms and turns head side to side while on belly
Tolerates tummy time well
Rocks from side to side
Rolls from belly to back
Sources:
https://helpmegrowmn.org
https://www.cdc.gov/act-early/milestones
www.michigan.gov/mikidsmatter
https://idrpp.usu.edu/projects/ski-hi/deaf-hard-of-hearing/early-intervention
https://hopepubl.com/product/ski-hi-curriculum/
ASL Words and Phrases this Month
LIGHT
TIRED
LOOK
YOU TIRED?
Serve and Return
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Serve and return interactions are back and forth communicative exchanges between a baby and their caregiver (Harvard University, 2007). These interactions not only help infants develop communication and social skills, but also help develop their neural circuitry (Bick & Nelson, 2017).
