Baby Milestones Tracker Template
Make notes of your baby’s milestones
Keep track of your infant’s developmental milestones to help you remember what they’ve learned and when. It is useful for bringing to doctor's visits, and even reminiscing about the exciting things your baby has learned how to do.
Classify milestones into categories
Easily organize your baby's milestones by development type with category dropdowns. Categories include: Language, Cognitive, Emotional and Social, Sensory and Motor, and Other.
Infant Growth Chart
for Excel and Google Sheets
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⤓ Excel (.xlsx)License: Private Use (not for distribution or resale)
Description
This baby milestones tracker is a spreadsheet where you can list your baby’s developmental milestones. Like the first time they make eye contact, their first smile and laugh, when they get their first teeth, and other special moments. You can categorize each event by development type, track the day the event occurs so you can know how old they were, and write in any notes or things you want to remember. The milestones worksheet has 5 developmental categories:
- Language. Examples: Turning to someone who is talking, starting to babble and make "coos", saying "mama" and "dada", understanding their own name, associating other names (like mama/dada) with other people.
- Cognitive. Examples: making eye contact and following objects with their eyes, looking for objects and people of interest, beginning to use the other senses, object permanence.
- Emotional and Social. Examples: being more alert and social, smiling, laughing, learning new facial expressions and reacting to other people's facial expressions, fear of strangers and separation anxiety, specific cries in different scenarios.
- Sensory and Motor. Examples: holding their head up, tummy time, changes in the startle reflex, finding their hands and feet, reaching out to grab objects, rolling over, sitting up, crawling, grabbing and bringing food (and toys) to their mouth.
- Physical. Examples: changes in weight, height, and other physical measurements.
What developmental milestones should I look for as my infant grows?
The CDC’s website and your pediatrician are great resources for comprehensive examples of milestones at each age. We've also provided a list of useful References and Resources lower on this page.
Pair with the Infant Growth Chart Template
Want to keep track of your infant’s growth and percentiles? Check out the Infant Growth Chart template, a companion template to the Baby Milestones Tracker. You can create a copy of the Baby Milestones Tracker and copy it into a worksheet within the Infant Growth Chart template to save all of your baby’s stats all in one place.
Excel Instructions:
→ Open both templates and enable editing if you haven’t already done so
→ Navigate to the Baby Milestones Tracker template
→ Right click on the Milestones Tracker worksheet at the bottom of the window and select “Move or Copy”
→ In the “To book” field, choose the infant-growth-percentile-tracker file
→ In the “Before sheet:” field, choose where you want your worksheet to be
→ (Optional) Check the “Create a copy” box to create a copy of the worksheet you are moving
→ Click OK
Google Sheets Instructions:
→Open the Baby Milestones Tracker template, and make a note of where in your Google Drive your Infant Growth Chart template is saved.
→ In the Baby Milestones Tracker template, right click on the Milestones Tracker worksheet at the bottom of the window and select “Copy to” and “Existing spreadsheet”
→ Navigate to where your Infant Growth Chart template is stored, and select the template.
→ Click Insert.
Disclaimer
All reasonable precautions have been taken to correctly use the World Health Organization's child growth standards data. However, this spreadsheet is published without warranty of any kind, either express or implied. The responsibility for the use and interpretation of these tables and charts lies with the user. See the Vertex42 license agreement for more information. You should seek the advice of qualified professionals regarding medical and health decisions.
References and Resources
- What to Expect - WhatToExpect.com - You've probably heard of the book, now check out the site!
- Baby Schedule Template - Vertex42.com - Keep track of your baby's eating, sleeping, and diaper changing schedules.
- Baby Checklists - Vertex42.com - Checklists for new babies, newborns, traveling with a baby or toddler, and a mom's delivery bag checklist.
- CDC - cdc.gov - List of developmental milestones at various ages.
- Baby Well-Care Visits and Developmental Milestones - clevelandclinic.org - Find out when to bring your baby to the doctor, and other developmental milestones from 0-12months.
