At Two Months, Your Child will Likely…

Physical Development:

• Focuses eyes.
• Eats every 3 to 4 hours.

Social & Emotional Development:

• Smiles.
• Reacts to distress by crying.

Intellectual Development:

• Follows light or objects with eyes.
• Recognizes bottle or breast.

Developmental milestones associated with feeding:

• Extrusion reflex is fading.
• Begins to develop hand-eye coordination.

Birth to 18 Months - First Connections with Families
First Connections with Families provides information about child development, reading to your child, and child health and safety.

The Early Learning Guidelines for Ages Birth to 3
This exciting new resource is being written to assist early childhood caregivers/teachers, parents and other adults with information about supporting the learning and development of young children. The Guidelines provide information related to seven domains or areas of learning and development:

• Social & Emotional Developmentment
• Approaches to Learning
• Health & Physical Development
• Language & Literacy Development
• Mathematics
• Science
• Creative Arts