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Sensory Abilities
Four-Day-Old Babies
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Can focus only on objects eight to twelve inches away.
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Love looking at light/dark contrasts and designs.
Four-Month-Old Babies
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Easily focus on large objects across a room.
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Can turn their head to find where a sound comes from.
Social Abilities
Four-Day-Old Babies
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More attracted to the sound of the human voice than to music or
noise. Can recognize their mother’s voice from the muffled
sounds they heard in the womb.
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Prefer looking at a person’s face rather than an object. May be
able to imitate facial expressions like a mom opening her mouth
or sticking out her tongue.
Four-Month-Old Babies
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Patiently wait for you to stop talking before they take a turn in
the conversation by releasing a symphony of coos, grunts, and
giggles.
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Enamored with their parents’ faces and brighten visibly when

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they enter the room. Smile and coo to make their parents smile
and may become upset when ignored.
Motor Abilities
Four-Day-Old Babies
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Often get crossed eyes. Can follow only slowly moving objects and
have very jerky eye movements.
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Hard for them to get their fingers to their mouths and very hard
for them to keep them there for more than thirty seconds.
Four-Month-Old Babies
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No longer get crossed eyes. Can now follow objects swiftly and
smoothly as they move around the room.
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Much more able to reach out and touch objects. Easily get their
fingers to their mouths and keep them there for many minutes.
Physiological Characteristics
Four-Day-Old Babies
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Hands and feet are blue much of the time.
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Bodies occasionally get jolted by hiccups, jittery tremors, and
irregular breathing.
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Have little ability to control body movements.