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Transform Your Life with McKee Therapy Specialists

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.


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