SIX TO NINE MONTHS

Remember to use your child’s corrected age when comparing her accomplishments to a developmental chart!  If your baby has been generally healthy since she came home from the hospital, you can expect she will:

• babble and begin to combine vowel consonant sounds. For example, "dadadada."
  
  
• turn to locate the source of a sound.
  
  
• respond to her name.
  
  
• roll over.
  
  
• move from sitting with support to sitting independently.
  
  
• transfer objects from hand to hand.
  
  
• support her weight on her feet when held in an upright position.
  
  
• use the thumb and fingers to pick up small objects (rather than using the whole hand in a raking motion).
  
  
• crawl (supporting her weight on her hands and knees rather than pulling herself along in a semi-lying position).
  

EXCEPTIONS  

CONCERNS

For variations associated with neonatal complications, click on EXCEPTIONS.
For descriptions of observations which should be addressed further, click on CONCERNS.