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Two weeks in, and you're likely running on fumes. This week brings your first pediatrician visit and the all-important weight check—a concrete metric that tells you feeding is working. Your mission: k...
Somewhere between week 4 and 6, your baby will look at your face and smile on purpose. Not gas. Not a reflex. An actual social response to you. This moment is evolution's reward for the brutal weeks b...
The test was positive. It's real. This week, a cluster of cells smaller than a sesame seed is developing its first primitive heartbeat—a tiny tube that will pulse about 110 times per minute by week's ...
This is often the week when pregnancy becomes visually real. At your first ultrasound, you'll see a tiny fluttering heartbeat on the screen—and that image tends to shift everything from abstract conce...
Two months is a milestone appointment—your baby's first round of immunizations. It's a big deal medically and emotionally. You should be there. Crying often peaks right around this time, but the good ...
Around week 10, something shifts. It's not fixed—there's no magic transition—but you might notice the chaos has a rhythm now. Crying has likely decreased from its peak. Baby is more interactive, cooin...
Your baby is now the size of a strawberry, and something remarkable has happened: fingers and toes are fully formed, and fingernails are starting to develop. The bones are beginning to harden from sof...
Week 12 is a threshold. Miscarriage risk, which runs about 15-20% in early pregnancy, drops significantly after this point—down to about 1-5% for most women. All the essential organs, limbs, bones, an...
Twelve weeks. You made it through the fourth trimester—the hardest, most disorienting phase of early parenthood. Your baby is no longer a newborn; they're an infant now, more social, more predictable,...
Welcome to the second trimester. Your baby is now the size of a lemon, and this week brings a developmental milestone: vocal cords are forming, preparing for that first cry (and years of subsequent on...
Week 16 marks your entry into the sweet spot of pregnancy. Morning sickness is fading, energy is returning, and your baby is big enough that your partner might feel the first tiny movements—though it'...
You're halfway there. Week 20 brings the anatomy scan—the most comprehensive ultrasound of the pregnancy. This is the appointment where specialists check every organ system and you can find out the se...
Social-emotional, intellectual, language, and motor development
CDC/AAP-backed milestone tracking with video demonstrations
10 milestones to watch for through age 5
Activity ideas with everyday items
What most children do by 18 months
What most children do by 15 months
Problem-solving and physical skills development
Weaning from breastfeeding, bottles, and pacifiers
Understanding early brain development
Mindfulness and self-compassion for parents
What most children do by 2 years
Communication and language milestones
