When your baby has bonded with you the baby will show signs of recognizing and seeking out comfort from you.
Common ways that a baby is bonding with you and seeking comfort and recognizing you are the baby will smile, make eye contact, calm down when you hold them and coo or babble in response to your voice.
The baby may also reach out to touch you and show signs of distress when you leave their presence or the room they are in.
Babies are bonded with you when they prefer your presence over others and will respond positively to your interactions.
Looking relaxed and interested in you is also a sign that your baby has bonded with you.
Most babies will establish a well established bond with their parent within a few months after you bring the baby home from the hospital.
The age that babies become affectionate is between 4 months to 6 months of age.
By 4 to 6 months of age most babies become more affectionate and social and they love to laugh and cuddle and become expressive and may even "flirt" with people across the room.
A baby should start crawling by the ages of 7 months to 12 months.
Babies can often get into a crawling position on their hands and knees when they are 6 to 9 months of age.
Babies often begin rolling around and crawling on their tummies which is known as commando crawling by 9 months of age.
Around half of babies start to crawl at around 8 months of age.
The signs that your baby is read to start crawling include.
Rolling to reach a toy across the room.
Using their arms to pull forward while their tummy remains close to the floor.
Rocking back and forth on their hands and knees.
And pushing up to their hands and knees.
The age that a baby should roll over is between 2 months to 4 months of age which is when you often stop swaddling the baby as well.
Although a baby can roll over by 2 to 4 months they won't usually be able to roll back over on their own.
By 5 months to 7 months a baby should be able to roll from their back to their belly and back and forth.
By 3 months and 5.5 months babies usually learn to roll from their belly to their back.
By 6 months of age most babies will roll over in both directions.
You can stop swaddling your baby when the baby starts to roll over which is between the ages of 2 months to 4 months old.
By 2 to 4 months of age your baby may be able to roll over onto their tummy but not yet be able to roll back over themselves.
Once the baby starts to try to roll over they should stop being swaddled.
While your baby may not actually start to roll over until they are 3 months to 4 months old, it is safest to stop swaddling your baby before your baby rolls over.
When you do stop swaddling your baby, you should stop swaddling your baby gradually.
Start by leaving one of the baby's arm or both arms out of the swaddle while you keep the rest of the baby's body wrapped.
Over time you can gradually increase the amount of freedom your baby has out of the swaddle until the baby is comfortable sleeping without being swaddled.
An alternative to swaddling is a sleep blanket or wearable blanket which are bodysuits with blanket like material.
The wearable blankets or sleep sacks are perfect for baby's that want to feel comfortable an warm but need a little more wiggle room than a regular swaddle provides them.