Developmental milestones provides a way to track the growth of children. 

• It provides information around various things a child should be doing at any particular age since the birth. 

• Not every child is the same. Hence not every child will be displaying all these attributes exactly as written but majority of these are true for majority of the children. 

• These milestones effectively help in 2 aspects

  • Tracking the growth of the child.

  • Identifying the areas where parents should act on, incase there is any difference between the growth of the child versus the milestones.

Resources for develomental milestones

You can get in-depth details about the developmental milestones from the following sources.

• Govt. of India - Developmental milestones

• AIIMS, Delhi - Developmental milestones

• Indian Academy of Pediatrics - Developmental milestones

• Unicef - Developmental milestones

• Standford - Development milestones