New abilities

Your little one is already 5 months old!

Up until now, you’ve been the one showing all the affection, but you may soon start to see something back, and it will be so worth the wait. You baby might hold out their arms to be picked up, and – in a true-heart-melt moment - put their pudgy little arms around your neck.

As the months go on, your baby’s muscles will be getting stronger and they’ll be progressing from laying on their back, to laying on their front. By five months old a few babies may have mastered sitting up around now, but the majority will still look like the leaning Tower of Pisa and will need all the cushions you have to prop them up.