Growth and development

Head Anterior Posterior

Weight Length Tooth
Circumference fontanel fontanel
3.4 Kg. 50 cm. 35 cm. First by 5-9 m.
First yr by By 6 m. 44 cm.
Close by
Double by 5m. 25-30 cm. By 1 yr. 47 cm. By 1 year 6-8 Close by 4 m.
9-18 m
Triples by 1 yr. 2-12 yrs= HC: Length/2 + teeth.
[(age × 6)+ 77] 10 ± 2

First 3 months
Prone: avoid Social smile by 3-5
suffocation by Head lag still Grasp reflex till 8 w. If not by 8-12w By 3 m says “aah,
turning from side present. w  active grasp.  serious ngah”
to side. deviation.

3 – 6 months
Rolls over by Reach toward Support weight
5-6 m (first objects by 6 m upon extended
Prone: raise Head lag Laughs aloud
from prone to  mouth for legs + bounces.
head and chest. absent by 4 m. at 4 m.
supine then oral Sit alone with
reversibly). exploitation. support.

6 – 12 months
Stand for a short Use thumb and
Creep and crawl Sit without 9 m waves bye-
time at 8 m with forefinger with
by 9-10 m. support 8-9 m. bye.
hands held. pincer motion.
By the end of 1st yr
moves from
12 m simple At 1 yr walks with
dependency
games like Says Baba, Mama, Few more words hand held and
towards
throwing ball and Dada by 8 m. by 1 yr. holding to
independent
peek-a-boo. furniture.
activities to
explore the world.

Second year of birth

By 15 m walks By 18 m runs By 20 m go down By 18 m imitates By 24 m enters the
alone. stiffly, climbs stairs one hand vertical line. “run about” age
stairs with one held. moving from a
hand held going safe environment
one step at a time. into danger and
By 21 m imitates By 18 m By 24 m 3 words By 18-24 m needs constant
circular and make vocabulary of 10 together in a verbalize toilet surveillance.
horizontal lines words with lots of sentence. needs.
jargon talk.

Dr. Moath Abusharar