How to track & ensure that your baby is meeting their development milestones

My baby son is 28+ months old. We feed him normal boiled rice with mix veg, fish, eggs with veg soup on alternate days. He hardly drinks water and doesn't want to drink water and causing us difficult to feed him water. Mostly relies on formula milk (nangrow) as substitute of water. He still hasn't learned to speak only makes several sounds. He sometimes babbles/murmurs the 1to 10 and reverse as well as the ABCDs only. But only one or two words sometimes he speaks out as his mother tongue. We are a bit worried if he is lacking his developmental milestones. Please advise us, if he is not up to the mark.

Hell doctor,My 5 months old doesn't smile looking at us. He is rarely playful and cries most of the times. He keeps on staring at the roof. By what age do babies smile back?

Hello Doctor ! What is the right time for a child to learn to climb and come down from stairs independently? My child is 3 years old but is still not confident on stairs. We live on the 3 rd floor and need to use stairs many times in a day. How can we make him practice as I am scared he might fall down.

Doctor mera beta 2 saal ka hai. Woh bilkul bhi kuch nahi bolta aur isharon mai batata hai usey jo bhi chaihe. Kuch ajeeb se aawajein bhi kabhi kabhi nikalta hai. kya yeh language delay ka sign hai ya aur kisi problem ka sanket hai? Mujhe kya karna chaihe?

My child is 4 years old . His speech is not clear and he hardly speak a few words like 'Mama', 'Papa', 'Dada' 'chalo', 'bye-bye'. Is this a cause of worry? What can be done to foster his language development? Whom should we consult to get him assessed?

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Doctor my child can't understand simple instructions such as put the toys back in place or pick up that pencil from the floor and so on and so forth. She is 2 year and 6 months old. I have to repeat myself over and over again which makes me loose my tempers. she behaves as if she doesn't understand the language at all? Is there some issue with my child or is this normal for this age? What can be done to make her follow simple instructions?

Hello Doctor!My daughter is 4 years old . She is too scared in front of strangers and hides after seeing guests at home. She doens't play with agemates as well. She has issues with writing and sometimes write the mirror image of alphabets like P,B , C ,S ,9 and 6 and so on. Is this the indication of some developmental problem and is there a link between the two issues that she is facing? Kindly advise what can be done to deal with the issues she is facing?

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