Many parents find the fourth month of baby development in their baby’s life to be the most entertaining yet. 4 month baby are generally sleeping through the night – or at least through a good chunk of it – and are smiling and giggling a lot. While they are still far off from communication through words, they have plenty of ways to let you know how they are feeling and what they want. Your baby is a lot of fun to be around while awake because everything he or she does inspires awe, and they feel the same about any new thing that comes their way. Games like Peek-a-Boo are especially fun for the four month old baby.

Cognitive skills development is at work while baby is attempting to master sounds so they too may one day speak the way that you do.

Remember that baby is going to learn speech and patterns from you and those that they spend the most time with, so speak to them very clearly and very often. Baby talk is just fine on occasion, but make sure you speak to them as you hope they will speak back to you one day. At 4 month baby are going to try to master the sounds of b, k, m, g, and the p letters. They are also going to start putting more sounds together to see what happens. They will also do many things with their lips that may seem silly to you, but in actuality they are practicing how they are going to mimic your language so that they can communicate with you. That is a very important part of baby speech development of the months to come.

Visually, baby development this month includes continued improvements in baby development. Babies are now seeing with even more clarity and will follow some moving items that they find interesting.

They are better able to distinguish between the faces that they know and see every day and those that they do not yet know. If they have access to a mirror, they may study their own reflection. As you may have figured out by now, babies are fascinated with babies. Expect your baby to react to and look towards bright colors and flashing lights.

For motor skills development, look out for a baby that has benefited from a lot of tummy time by holding their head and shoulders up off the floor or ground to look at you and anything else in focus. If you have a baby seat that allows baby to sit upright, they can hold their head up for the most part, though they may not do it for hours on end. Allow them a break once in a while. They have a better grasp on anything in their hands and will search for something they have dropped by using a scraping motion. There is a good chance your baby may roll over (though not all do so by this age) so do not let them out of your sight when they could be hurt if they were to roll. Hand and eye coordination should improve as well.

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Some parents at this stage are enjoying baby, but are struggling with low sex drive in one or both parents.

While this is frustrating, the  most important thing a parent can remember is that this is almost always temporary. A lack of sleep and the new responsibility of a baby can have a huge hand in this problem, as can the changes in the hormones of the mother. A breast feeding mother, for example, will not feel much like sex until she has regained her monthly flow. Then, things may be back to normal.

Parents should realize they are not alone and that most couples face this problem. Heidi Murkoff, author of the What To Expect series says, “Open communication goes a long way when it comes to building intimacy. Talk about how the two of you are feeling. It may help to schedule time together, working around the baby’s schedule, of course.” She goes on to say, “Remember, you don’t have to actually have sex to be intimate. Express your love (and desire) in other ways — hold hands, give him a back rub, cuddle on the couch, or kiss him like he’s leaving for a week when he least expects it.”

While breastfeeding moms may have a three month (or longer) window in which they are not ovulating and can not get pregnant,

bottle feeding moms can ovulate a few weeks after giving birth, says Phillip Stubblefield, MD, professor at Boston University of Medicine. This can actually be the reason why some women and men do not have much of a sex drive after baby arrives. Even if the hormones are there, the thought of getting pregnant again so soon may destroy any drive that remains. Have a good birth control plan in place to get your sex drive back sooner.

Finally, remember that it can be that you are putting too much stress on yourself. Other sites authorities have offered practical suggestions about what may be wrong, but also suggest that nothing at all may be wrong except the timing. All marriages and children are different, and as long as both partners are working towards the same goal, a happy and active sex life will resume when the time is right for everyone involved.

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