When do babies start......

[keelie_b]

My LO is 11 days old and im a first time mum so not particuarly clued up.
Please could someone tell me at what age babies start to do the following, (i know every baby is different but just an idea would be great )

What age do babies start:

Lifting thier heads?
Teething?
sleeping for more than an hour ?(im breast feeding)
smiling?
having established routines with nap times and feeds?
seeing close people (mum, dad ect) and recognising them?

Thanks all xx

 

[daftscotslass]

Here's when these happened for us...

Lifted her head when on her tummy fairly early on but hated it for a long time! Can't remember the exact age. Was a good bit longer before she'd lift it up when lying on her back.

Teething... umm... she started showing signs from only a couple of months old but no teeth until she was 7 months.

Sleeping... can't help as I wasn't bf'ing but was a good while before there was any pattern to her sleep. Sometimes she'd be up every half hour, sometimes she'd sleep for 3 or 4!

She smiled at around 5 weeks I think.

She's 8 and a bit months now and still sleeps in the day when she's tired which can be at different times but is usually late morning and mid afternoon. We've had a bedtime routine from early on as she was colicky and a bath in the evening was all that would console her. Only in the last couple of months has she started to feed more predictably but again she's bottle fed so there might be a difference there.

She recognised us from quite early on I think as we were the only folk who could get a smile out of her for some time!

Hope that helps a bit

 

[Morganuk]

Hello hun

I can't answe all the questions but i'll see what I can find out:
Lifting thier heads?



Newborn to 1 month
Most babies, by the time they reach 1 month of age, are able to turn or even lift their heads. Some babies are so skilled at this particular milestone that they can even do so at birth. That said, it is important to remember that you always need to carefully support a newborn's head, since it will be many months before she can do it on her own.

1 to 3 months
Your baby will begin to develop better head control at this age. While all 3-month-olds still need special attention paid to supporting their heads, they definitely require less support than they did as a newborn.

Don't let your infant's increasing head control fool you, however — many 3-month-olds like to show off their abilities while being held, only to suddenly thrust themselves back, causing their heads to flop over.

3 to 6 months
At this age, babies will start rolling their heads. While the general timing when it comes to rolling is front-to-back at 4 months and back-to-front at 6, there is a great deal of variation on this timing.

In general, a 4-month-old should be able to push up on his forearms and lift his head and chest 90 degrees when lying on his stomach — a position which requires only a slight lean to either side to become a roll. Some babies are able to roll from back to side at 4 or 5 months, but typically, most aren't able to complete the task until 6 months or so.

Teething?

Although six months is the most common age at which children sprout their first tooth, not all babies follow the typical pattern.

Sometimes the first tooth appears later, and sometimes much earlier (very occasionally it's already there at birth!)

sleeping for more than an hour ?(im breast feeding)
Not sure about this hun.

smiling?

Jaeda starting smiling at about a mth, it really does depend with each baby hun

having established routines with nap times and feeds?

Keep in mind that it's perfectly normal for your newborn to have totally unpredictable eating and sleeping habits. He may even have his days and nights mixed up. So don't fight his rhythms. In fact, it's important for you to learn and respect his cues — those that tell you when he's hungry and when he's full. That said, there are some things you can do to gently coax your baby into a schedule of sorts:

* Establish other schedules. Give your baby a bath and take him for a walk every day at about the same time. It'll get him used to the idea of daily routine. In fact, he'll probably take comfort in it. With a little luck, other schedules will fall into place more easily, too.
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* Help your baby sleep soundly. Sometimes your baby will fall asleep at the end of a feeding, as if to signal that he's finished. Other times he may doze off in the middle of a feeding, only to wake up half an hour later because he's still hungry. So when you nurse your baby or give him a bottle, don't overfeed him (by trying to get that last ounce in him) if he's awake and clearly has had enough — but do try to make sure he gets his fill before he sleeps. Play lively music, talk with him, or change his diaper mid-feeding if you think he's nodding off in the middle of a meal.

If you're breastfeeding, offer both breasts at each feeding. Make sure your baby takes the rich hind milk from at least one breast, even if he doesn't need to empty both breasts to be satisfied. (This high-fat hind milk will help him sleep longer between feedings.) If your baby has a weaker suck, you can help him get the hind milk by massaging your breast during the last few minutes of nursing. If you have a very strong baby with a powerful suck and a good latch-on, then he'll most likely have no difficulty obtaining the hind milk all by himself.

Remember, too, that babies are different. Some can empty a breast in four or five minutes, while others — especially tiny babies — may need 15 to 20 minutes. Efficient nursing is a skill that babies master as they get older and stronger.
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* Pay attention to your baby's rhythms. When your baby is very young, feed him whenever you notice hunger signals — even when they seem completely random. This might be up to a dozen times a day in the first few weeks. Once he becomes a more efficient eater, though (at around 4 weeks), he'll likely drop to about eight feedings in 24 hours. This is a good time to look for a pattern in his feeding.

If you observe closely, you may be able to detect other consistencies, too. Note when he's alert, how long he sleeps, and when he has a bowel movement. Sometimes BMs occur at regular intervals in relation to sleeping and eating. Your baby might not be able to settle down until he's had one, for example, or he may be ready to eat only after his first BM of the day. Once you begin to pick up on his consistencies, you can both settle into a (flexible) schedule of sorts.
seeing close people (mum, dad ect) and recognising them


Hope this has helpeda bit hun.

 

[Squiglet]

All babies run at their own pace. Some do things early others don't do things until they are much older. So I will only comment by what happened with us and lil miss...

Lifting thier heads? Lil miss could support and lift her head from birth.
Teething? 4 months she got her first tooth but was niggly from 2 months but that was really early.
sleeping for more than an hour ?(im breast feeding) Lil miss didn't start sleeping for more than an hour till gone 12 weeks and only at night if she was co sleeping. Oh and it wasn't consistent. She started sleeping through from around 9 months.
smiling? Lil miss was around 3 weeks old.
having established routines with nap times and feeds? I had a "routine" from day one. I have Tia so there was already a routine... All I did was to get lil miss up at 8am every morning without fail and start the bedtime routine at 8pm every night. She eventually just fell into a general routine, which changes every few months depending on her development. Feeds have never EVER been consistent...although she would get hungry around the same time.
seeing close people (mum, dad ect) and recognising them? I have absolutely no idea... She seemed to recognise me from birth and DH within a few days following birth...but she didn't really start showing happiness at our presence until she was around 6 weeks old.

At the moment you are giving EVERYTHING to your LO especially as you are bfing and your baby is giving you nothing in return. But when they do.. you realise that it was completely worth it and it gives you the get go to keep going.. but at the moment its slightly demoralising being boob all the time and no one appreciating you for it.... but they will