Your baby’s development in their fifth month

Receptive Language

  • Begins to attend to signs

  • May follow eye gaze of adult

Expressive Language

  • Begins to move hands in early babbles (e.g., wiggle fingers, twists wrists).

  • May vocalize

Cognitive

  • Reaches for a toy

  • Follows a moving item with their eyes

  • Recognizes familiar people

  • Responds to affection

Social

  • Smiles at people

  • Likes to play with people

  • Copies some facial expressions

Motor

  • Rolls from back to belly

  • Brings feet to mouth laying on back

  • Pushes up on hands with arms extended while on belly

  • Pivots in a circle while on belly to each side

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

WANT-TO DRINK?

FAN

BATH

DIAPER CHANGE