👶 Your 1-Month-Old Baby

🌱 Development at 1 month

• Focuses on faces 20–30 cm away and prefers your face to anything else
• Startles at loud sounds; grasps your finger by reflex
• Lifts the head briefly during tummy time

These are things most children (about 3 in 4) can do by this age. Babies born early may reach them later — use their corrected age.

📏 Growth: WHO weight, length and head size

Any steady curve within this range is normal; what matters is that your baby follows their own curve over time.

🍼 Feeding

• Breast milk or formula only, on demand — usually 8–12 feeds in 24 hours
• No water, honey, ghutti or other liquids

😴 Sleep and teeth

• Total sleep: 14–17 h in 24 hours, usually 4–5 naps (National Sleep Foundation and American Academy of Sleep Medicine ranges).
• Most babies get their first tooth between 6 and 10 months, though some start at 4 months and some after 12.

💉 Vaccines due at 1 month

Your paediatrician may group doses differently. Keep the vaccination card safe.

💡 Tips for this month

• Give vitamin D drops (400 IU a day) if breastfeeding, as your doctor advises
• Always put your baby to sleep on the back, in their own cot