Infant Problems

Your baby will give you the most important information, how they like to be treated, talked to, held, and comforted. Sometimes, parents and your GP may have concerns about your newborn, and you may need some specialised advice. This is where we come in. 

You may be worried about your baby’s weight gain, your baby may be having feeding difficulties or suffering from colic, or your baby may have sleeping problems, or unexplained and ongoing irritability. 

There are a number of issues that we see infants for, if you’d like to make an appointment, gain a referral from your GP to see one of our specialised Paediatricians at Townsville Paediatrics. 

This section addresses the most common questions and concerns that arise during the first months of life.

Physical Skills
Raises head & chest when on stomach, stretches & kicks on back, opens and s​huts hands, brings hand to mouth, grasps and shakes toys

Social Skills
Begins to develop social smiles, enjoys playing with people​​​​​, more communicative, more expressive with face & body, imitates some movements and expressions.

Sensory Milestones
follows moving objects, recognises familiar objects and people at a distance, starts using hands and eyes in coordination, prefers sweet smells, prefers soft to coarse sensations.

Physical Skills
Raises head & chest when on stomach, stretches & kicks on back, opens and s​huts hands, brings hand to mouth, grasps and shakes toys

Physical Skills
Rolls bot​h ways, sits with and ​without support of hands, supports whole weight on l​egs, reaches with one hand, transfers object from hand to hand, uses raking grasp​.

Social Skills
Enjoys social play, interested in mirror images, responds to expressions of emotions, appears joyful often.

Sensory Milestones
Finds partially hidden objects, explores with ha​nds and​ mouth, struggles to get obj​ects that are out of reach.

Physical Skills
Gets to sitting​ position​ without help, crawls forward on belly, assumes hands-and-knees ​position, gets from sitting to crawling position, pulls themself up to stand, walks holding on to furniture.

Social Skills
Shy or anxious with strangers, cries whe​n parents leave, enjoys imitating peopl​e in play, prefers certain people and toys, tests parental response, finger-feeds themself.

Sensory Milestones
Explores objects in different ways, finds hidden objects easily, looks at the correct picture when the image​ is named, imitates gestures, begins to use objects correctly.