3 month old doesn’t put hands to mouth - worried!

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Hi everyone

I have made a post like this a couple of weeks ago but reposting as there wasn’t much response. My dd is 3 months old today and still doesn’t bring her hands to her mouth. I know you should stay away from Google but when u do Google it, autism comes up everywhere!! I’m so worried, I try everything to encourage her to do it. Anyone else had a baby at this age who didn’t do it and all was fine? I know all babies develop differently but every baby, literally every baby, at this age I’ve met is doing this

Ah I can sense the worry, and I've been there.. Please try not to, they all develop so differently. Does the baby use hands on other ways? Trying to grip things or hold things? If you're really worried try contacting your health visitor for some reassurance.

My DS was very slow at everything - didn't sit till 8 months, crawled at 11 months and only walked at 18months.. at over 2 his speech is very behind and I'm trying not to stress about that! There will always be something.. best thing to do is not compare and don't google!!

Please try not to worry and step away from google.

Babies develop in their own time and along their own path. She might not be doing this one thing, but could be doing other stuff babies her age don't do.

There's a really good episode of a kids show called Bluey all about this. It's called Baby Race. Look it up on YouTube. I think it should be compulsory viewing for new parents lol.

You're doing great.

DD is 15 weeks and has only started doing it in the last 2 weeks.

DS did it from 2 months and has autism so I wouldn't worry about what Google says.

Babies develop at their own pace.

@jalu47 hi hun, she does. She’s actually great at hitting things and grasping, she just can’t seem to get them to her mouth. It’s like she tries but doesn’t know how to keep them there. Thank u for your response x

@Twizbe hey hun, this is very true. Thank u so much, I will check it out x

@fairgame84 hey hun, thank u so much. I’ll keep working with her and hopefully she’ll get there soon x

You can Google pretty much any part of development and get autism links. So stop googling because it isn’t helping you or your baby. Use a reliable source of milestones
She is only 3 months old and they don’t all do things at the same time, If she was 7 months and not doing it then I would be concerned.

@fairgame84 if brother autistic the second child will also get the autism ???

Wtf? Of course not.

@fairgame84 cuz my DS is mild autistic my DD is 3months old now...I'm worrying

She's so little! You really need to stop reading up on what she should and shouldn't be doing and just enjoy her. You really don't need to be working with her on anything - just play with her and have fun and forget the milestones. If she does happen to have ASD then nothing you do will change that but it's far too early to tell especially from one little thing.

There is an increased risk that they may be autistic, but they are still more likely not to have ASD. I think a big study found that 19% of families went on to have another child with ASD (while obviously 81% didn't).

Put something within arms reach that she really shouldn’t have in her mouth. She’ll be troughing on it before you can say knife!
Babies are like that.

So so true.
Mine is reluctant to grab with her left hand until I was in a coffee shop and my hot drink was in reach. Luckily I saw what she was up to just in time.

Thank you so much everyone. Xx