Results of the 4th month

Motor reactions. During wakefulness, a "revitalization complex" often and easily arises. The child knits with legs and handles, showing animation and joy. He lifts his legs up, quickly straightens them. He keeps his weight, leaning his legs on the support. Lying on his stomach, leans on his forearms, maybe, resting his hands on the mattress, slightly lift the trunk. Turns independently to the barrel.

Skills. During feeding, he holds the mother's breast or bottle by the hands. At the sight of her mother's chest, she reaches out to her arms, grabs her. During feeding, she does not remove her hands from the bottle or breast.

Hand movements. Considers, feels and captures low toys hanging over his chest, holding out both hands, pulls toys into his mouth. The appearance of grasping is a very important stage in the development of the baby. Expresses joy at the appearance of new toys. Develops tactile sensitivity, which is important for the occurrence of the act of grasping and examination.

From 4 to 7 months there are effective actions: moving objects, moving them, extracting sounds from them.

Spotting reactions. Recognizes the mother or loved one, smiling happily. He looks calmly at the stranger. Distinguishes between the flat and

volumetric images. Follows the toy up to 3 minutes or more in all directions.

Auditory responses. Listens to the sounds of voice, music, sounding toys, looks for a source of sound, clearly turns his head towards him. Looks at it for 10 seconds. It reacts differently to calm and dance melodies. She quietly listens to the lullaby and is animated by the sounds of the dance. Distinguishes the voices of those close to the voices of strangers. Mother's voice connects with her face.

Speech reactions. Gulit himself after eating, when falling asleep and after talking with adults in 1-3 minutes. Repeats vowel sounds, emits enthusiastic cries, plays with sounds produced by saliva. The singing of the song is vividly expressed.

Emotions. The child laughs with all his heart, in his voice. For the first time the child begins to respond to tickling: the effectiveness of tickling depends on whether the kid himself gives a report that it is doing another person. Up to 3.5 months the child is not able to recognize another person.

Interested in everything that happens around, is inspected. Responds with a smile to a smile. Looks for another child's eyes, reaches out to him, tries to touch.

• A child of 4 months is a creature with a developed visual-motor system, good overall auditory abilities.

• It is able to control the movements of the arms and legs, but it is still difficult to control the body.

• There is a reaction to the novelty.

• The baby sleeps all night long.

• Gives parents a real smile and laughs loudly.

• The child at this age becomes round, elastic and unusually beautiful.

• weight of the boy - 6000-6900 g

• weight of the girl - 5500-6400 g

• height of the boy - 62-64 cm

• height of the girl - 61-62 cm

Intelligence. The third stage of development of sensory intelligence begins( from 4 to 8 months) - the implementation of targeted actions. The child begins to distinguish between the cause and effect: if you tug at the ring, the bell tones, you press on the switch, the light goes out.

A four-month-old child has certain schemes for the faces of his parents. He will long look at a graphic or sculptural image of a person with eyes located on the mouth, but briefly will hold his gaze on the image of a person without eyes at all. This suggests that minor changes in the object or phenomenon for an infant are much more attractive than full novelty.

At 4 months, the response to novelty manifests itself in the duration of the retention of the view on the new subject.

First Attachments. Try to stand beside your baby without looking at him. He at first smiles, expectantly looks, waits a little, and then, most likely, begins to decide with handles and legs.

If you refrain from a return smile or glance, which is very difficult to implement, then the baby's attempts are still possible to induce you to respond with invocative sounds that turn into discontented intonations, or even whimper;possible and resentment - the child will turn away.

If the four-month-old does not react in this way in the proposed situation, but simply does not pay attention to you - and this is repeated several times during other moments of wakefulness - it is a signal: the child does not show initiative in communication.

If he is passive with your passivity - you can be sure that this is the result of your attitude towards the child, who does not develop or support his own initiative, the result of the wrong organization of your communication with him.