#AskTheExpert My 8.5 month old sits, crawls, pulls to stand, smiles, laughs, recognises her name and babbles a bit. she started imitating simple sounds and actions recently. she seems to recognise very few words like pigeon she will look outside or very few times we say fan she will look up, not sure if she recognise us by names. she does for few days and then forgets. is this concerning. please suggest.

1 Answer

Dr GhouseGuardian of 3 children4 years ago

A. the baby is more than 8.5 months of age at this stage babies will be learning things but they may not be having everything proper memory in course of time they we can have all those things it is quite normal

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