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Fifth Month
- Baby actively flexes and reaches hands to feet.
- Baby brings feet to mouth.
- Baby rolls from supine to sidelying.
- Baby tucks the chin when engaged in supine flexion activities.
- Baby dissociates eye movements from head movements. Baby can use eyes to track an object without moving the head.
- Baby uses vision to guide reaching and grasping Baby flexes against gravity, lifting buttocks without flexing spine while reaching hands-to-feet Baby reaches with bilateral symmetrical arm movements.
- Baby reaches for and tactually explores the knees, legs and feet of lifted legs.
- Baby uses vision to orient hands before grasping an object.
- Baby uses fingers to hold objects firmly in the center of the palm.
- Baby can bring a toy into the visual field and visually inspect it.
- Baby moves lower extremities with symmetrical and asymmetrical movements.
- Baby kicks with dissociated lower extremity movements.
- Baby can flex hips to nearly 180 degrees and bring feet to mouth.
- Baby’s lower extremities no longer mirror upper extremities during reaching.
- Baby rolls to side lying from a symmetrically flexed position.
- Baby lifts head and laterally flexes neck when in sidelying In sidelying, baby exhibits brief lateral flexion of the trunk during lateral flexion of the head.
- In sidelying, baby bears weight on one arm and reaches with the other arm.
- In sidelying, baby dissociates legs; top leg remains flexed and abducted, bottom leg extends.