You've survived the first month of living with your newborn. In their first year, infants grow more and make more changes than at any other time in their lives. Your child entered this world pretty helpless.
Most infants have difficulty with eating, digesting food and breathing.
But, let's look down the road to the end of this year. In a year, your child will be able to chew and digest semisolid or chopped foods, will understand some words and may even say a few. She will recognize familiar people and things and know that even when things are not in sight, they still exist. Your child will begin to learn about herself or himself as a person separate from the surrounding world of people and things. Yet, we know from studying infant growth that all babies acquire certain skills in about the same order.