Your baby may be...


 

What your baby may be doing at 5 months

  

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MASTERED SKILLS - most babies can:
• Raise their chest supported by their arms when lying on their tummy
• Reach for an object
• Grasp a rattle or small toy
• Roll over from front to back
• Laugh out loud.

EMERGING SKILLS - may be able to:
• Recognise his own name
• Understand cause and effect – may look for an object he has dropped
• Turn in the direction of a voice.

ADVANCED SKILLS - a few babies can:
• Sit without support
• Pull up to standing position from sitting.