Baby 1 month: new world, new schedule
In just twelve months, your baby will change beyond recognition, and not only in appearance.
He will turn into an active and curious toddler, already beginning to walk, talk and show the first signs of character. But this “ascent” has 12 steps, 12 months. The first stage - the starting stage - consists mainly of the baby’s adaptation to the new conditions of “being”. But this does not mean that a 1-month-old baby has absolutely nothing to brag about! A child's development in the first month of life really boils down to the fact that he is getting used to a new, big, strange world. And you get used to the fact that from now on you must constantly and inseparably be near him and take care of him.
Differences in head size between newborn girls and boys
The head circumference of a newborn is on average 35 cm. It increases by about 3 cm per month. Pediatricians note that the size of a child’s head depends on his gender. Because boys tend to be slightly larger than girls, their heads are larger, although the average difference is less than 1 cm. The table below shows infants' head circumferences depending on how many months the baby is.
Newborn boy and girl
Head circumference by month for infants
Age | Child's head circumference, cm | |
Boys | Girls | |
At birth | 35,0 | 34,0 |
1 month | 37,3 | 36,6 |
2 months | 38,6 | 38,4 |
3 months | 40,9 | 40,0 |
4 months | 41,0 | 40,5 |
5 months | 41,2 | 41,0 |
6 months | 44,2 | 42,2 |
7 months | 44,8 | 43,2 |
8 months | 45,4 | 43,3 |
9 months | 46,3 | 44,0 |
10 months | 46,6 | 45,6 |
11 months | 46,9 | 46,0 |
12 months | 47,2 | 46,0 |
As can be seen from the table, the child’s skull actively increases in the first year of life. In the second year of life, its circumference increases by an average of 1.5-2 cm; in the third year, the increase in the skull is even slower, the increase is 1-1.5 cm.
Attention! Too much growth in circumference, exceeding the norm, should alert parents. In this case, you need to consult a pediatric neurologist for advice.
Child development in the first month of life: losing weight, gaining weight
There is no need to worry if your baby loses a little weight in the first days of life. Newborns are born with extra fluid in their bodies and typically lose up to 10% of their body weight in the first week. After this, their body stabilizes, and the child begins to gain weight again. At the end of the second week, babies usually weigh about the same as they weighed at birth.
But by the end of the first month of life, children, in conditions of adequate care and diet, begin to rapidly and steadily gain weight - on average from 15 to 30 grams every day.
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What a 1 month old baby can do: touching reflexes
Despite the fact that in the first month of a child’s life his nervous system is still in the process of development, he already knows a lot. You will see that your baby has several innate reflexes. One of these, for example, is sucking. Soon after birth, your baby will be able to latch and eat, albeit with your help. And if you touch his palm or place your finger on it, he will involuntarily clench it into a fist.
This reflex has made more than one generation of fathers happy. It’s a rare dad who will miss an opportunity to touchingly boast that his offspring has a strong man’s handshake or an “iron” grip.
If the baby is suddenly frightened by something, for example, a flash of bright light, he spreads his arms and legs to the sides, and then presses them back. This is called the Moro reflex, it will remain in the child until the 4-5th month, then it will gradually begin to fade away.
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By the end of the first month of life, your baby will already have developed the instinct to walk. If you hold your baby and place his foot on a flat, hard surface, he will try to take his first steps. This reflex is called the automatic newborn gait. But don't rush! There is a time for everything - there is no need to try to place the child on the floor or table, supporting him only by the arms. The baby's spine is still too weak and definitely not ready for such a load.
In addition, although a one-month-old newborn is already able to turn his head when lying on his stomach, his neck is not yet strong enough for him to support his head on his own. Therefore, always support the back of your baby's head when picking him up.
Sleeping like a baby?
For the first few weeks, it may seem to you that the only thing a newborn needs besides his mother’s breast is a sound, healthy and long sleep. In fact, newborns actually sleep a lot, 15-16 hours a day. These hours may be irregular because the child is not yet accustomed to the normal day and night cycle.
Remember, in the first month of your baby's life, his sleep and wake cycles are very different from yours. Unlike adults, infants' sleep mostly consists of REM sleep. This means that during the first weeks, your baby will wake up as unexpectedly as he falls asleep.
You can help your baby acclimate to natural rhythms more quickly by playing and talking to him during the day, and keeping things monotonous and boring at night. Eventually, the baby will “understand” that they play during the day and sleep at night. And gradually, just towards the end of the first month of life, the baby will become more and more awake during the day and sleep more soundly at night.
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Child development at 1 month: what does he see, how does he hear?
In the first month of a child’s life, the development of his vision is just beginning; newborns are myopic. The baby sees only those objects that are no further than twenty to thirty centimeters from him. This means that the baby will be able to more or less clearly see your face when you feed him or are nearby. By the way, he will prefer to look at your face instead of the face of some plush toy - neonatologists note that newborns are naturally attracted to a greater extent by “live” human faces. The baby will also prefer to look at high-contrast objects, because they are easier to see (this does not mean that you need to fill the children's bedroom with only black and white toys; pastel “soft” colors are also good and useful).
It is likely that you will notice that in the first month of life your baby will squint his eyes while trying to focus. This is normal, because the visual control apparatus of a newborn has not yet formed. However, if the child continues to “squint” up to three or four months, he needs to be seen by a doctor, this may be a sign of strabismus.
A newborn's hearing has also not yet developed, but by the end of the first month of life he can already hear many sounds clearly. Especially the voices of his parents, to which he was accustomed while he was in the womb. By the way, newborns like to listen to high-pitched, shrill sounds. So don’t be too indignant when your mother or nanny deliberately talks to him in a squeaky childish voice - for a while, this is even useful.
If your one-month-old baby does not respond to any sounds at all, take him to the doctor. Despite the fact that in the maternity hospital the neonatologist checks the hearing of all newborns, it doesn’t hurt to be on the safe side.
Reaching the first month - love for sweets
Like older children (and many adults), newborns love sweet tastes. The thing is that in the first month of a child’s life, the development of his taste buds is just beginning - the baby does not yet know how to recognize bitter and salty. But the sweetish taste of his food (which is formed due to the special composition and fat content of breast milk) is already recognized very well by a month-old baby.
As for the sense of smell, it is already well developed in a one-month-old baby - from the first days of life he is quite capable of distinguishing the smell of the mother's breast nipple and the smell of breast milk.
Baby 1 month: communication through tears
A 1-month-old child still has only one way of communicating with the outside world - crying. Your baby may cry up to three hours a day, and this is normal. Don't panic - the older he gets, the fewer tears there will be. Crying is your baby's way of saying, "I'm hungry - feed me!", or "I have a wet diaper - change it!", or simply, "I'm tired." Eventually, you will learn to recognize this crying and choose the right way to soothe your baby.
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The achievements are not great, but the will to win is enormous!
So, a month-old baby cannot yet boast of many new skills and abilities. For now, he is still just getting used to new living conditions, which are radically different from those in which he lived before birth. However, he already knows something. Namely:
- looks with interest at the face of the person leaning towards him
- tries to repeat the facial expressions of his “interlocutor”
- with curiosity happens speech
- sometimes repeats some sounds “in unison” to the speaker;
- distinguishes bright solid colors (red, black, white, yellow);
- recognizes the voice, smell and touch of the person who spends the most time with him (most often this is his mother);
- able to focus his gaze on a stationary bright object;
- in a prone position, he actively tries to lift and turn his head.
Compared to what your baby can demonstrate in a year, all of these skills seem insignificant. But you evaluate your child’s successes “from the other side” - compared to that tiny “flagrant lump” that your baby looked like at birth, today’s month-old toddler is already an incredible hero and hero. Is not it?
Newborn mode
At first glance, the routine of a newborn baby is simple: it consists mainly of sleep and short periods of wakefulness, which are barely enough for feeding, changing clothes and hygiene procedures. It is believed that a newborn sleeps 18–20 hours a day. However, all children are different, and such norms are conditional.
Many young parents, who in theory know that the baby should sleep all the time in the first month, are very surprised when he takes a shallow nap between feedings, or even falls asleep during the day only for a few minutes after feeding. (READ ALSO: Peculiarities of newborn sleep)
For a child who has been one with his mother for 9 months, the first weeks of adaptation to “separate living” are very difficult. Therefore, physical contact with mom is especially important now. Many children in the first months of life require it almost around the clock - the baby stops crying and falls asleep only in his mother’s arms.
If your child is now behaving this way, do not worry - the time until the baby so desperately needs your constant presence will fly by very quickly. Now it seems unthinkable, but very soon you will remember with tenderness the period of your child’s newbornhood. In the meantime, enlist the support of other family members, delegate household chores to them as much as possible and enjoy motherhood: rock the baby in your arms, carry around the apartment (while moving, you create vibrations similar to those that the child felt for 9 months while staying in your stomach), sing songs (nothing pleases a baby’s ear more than his mother’s voice, which he learned to recognize from thousands of others long before birth), hug him more often, lay him on your stomach and, of course, feed him on demand.
In recent decades, the method of increased contact between mother and baby has been especially widely used for nursing children born prematurely or with insufficient body weight. This approach is called the “Kangaroo Method” and is based on three things: constant coexistence of mother and child from the moment of birth, breastfeeding on demand (without limiting the time spent at the breast), frequent skin-to-skin contact (the undressed baby is laid out on the tummy on the mother’s bare chest, cover the baby with a flannelette diaper on top to keep the baby warm).
However, not all children require constant holding in their mother's arms. Many newborns easily fall asleep on their own in the cradle. Only the mother decides whether to carry the baby in her arms for a long time or not, based on the baby’s reactions. No general recommendations, as in many other issues of infant development and care, can be accepted a priori, because all children are different. And each mother develops her own comfortable mode of interaction with her child exclusively individually - alas, only by trial and error, and nothing else.