A lighthearted look at baby personality by birth month, with a gentle reminder that every baby develops in their own unique way.

An overview of how babies grow and change during the first year, including movement, communication, exploration and personality development.

Your baby recognises your voice long before they can see you clearly, and that recognition is doing something important for their sense of safety, attachment, and early language.

Babies are drawn to mirrors for reasons that go well beyond curiosity, and a few minutes of mirror play is doing more for your baby's development than you might expect.

Some babies seem to arrive already looking for answers - studying faces, reacting to every sound and moving on the moment they have figured something out. Here is what a highly curious baby can look like in the first year, and what all that investigating really means.