Social-Emotional Development

• Develop trust and attachment: Infants learn to feel safe and secure through consistent, responsive interactions with their primary caregivers.
• Recognize familiar people: They develop the ability to distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar faces and show preference for certain individuals.
• Express emotions: Infants learn to use facial expressions, sounds (like cooing and crying), and body language to communicate their feelings and needs.
• Become socially interactive: They participate in early forms of social interaction, such as making eye contact and smiling.

Physical Development

• Develop gross motor skills: This includes developing abilities like rolling, sitting with support, and potentially crawling and pulling up to stand.
• Develop fine motor skills: Infants learn to control smaller muscle movements, such as grasping objects and bringing them to their mouths.
• Increase body awareness: They become aware of their own body and how to control it.

Language Development

• Respond to sounds and voices: Infants begin to distinguish and respond to different sounds and voices, especially familiar ones.
• Make vocalizations: They transition from crying to cooing and babbling, experimenting with different sounds.
• Understand simple words and phrases: They start to understand the meaning of common words, like “mama” or “dada,” and respond to simple commands.

Cognitive Development

• Develop object permanence: Infants learn that objects still exist even when they are not in sight.
• Understand cause and effect: They begin to recognize that certain actions lead to specific responses.
• Explore their environment: Infants use their senses to explore objects and their surroundings, learning through interaction.
• Develop memory: They can recognize familiar people, places, and things.