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Experts separate a baby’s motor skills into two categories - gross and fine motor skills. Gross motor skills are skills that require the use of large muscles of the body, like your trunk. So in a newborn, a gross motor skill would be more like just holding their head up or maybe visually tracking something and using their head for that. And fine motor skills are motor skills that use the smaller muscles of your hand and your upper extremities. And fine motor skills would be just like grabbing a hand.

From birth to three months, really what the child is doing is trying to learn to control their head. And also being able to visually track things from side to side. When they're on their stomach, you can see them pushing up onto their elbows and having their head upright, and again, looking around to explore their environment.

From four to six months, it's all about controlling the trunk. So when they're laying on their back, now they can grab their feet and play with their feet, they can start to roll from their back to their stomach, And in terms of sitting, usually around the age of six months is when children start sitting independently, because they have the trunk control in order to do that.

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