We receive a lot of messages from people asking questions about Noah’s developmental milestones. Questions like, “How do children with Down syndrome develop differently than typical children?” “When did Noah get his first tooth?” When did Noah roll over for the first time?” “When did Noah start drinking from a straw?” and the list goes on and on. We enjoy answering everyone’s questions, but also wanted to create a place on our site that would serve as a landing page of his life achievements.
This list will be updated on a regular basis and will include not only developmental milestones, but what I like to call “life” milestones (like his first visit to a comic shop! The geek in me calls that a major life milestone.) 
As you read through Noah’s milestones, please remember that every child is different, and will reach their milestones at different times. I want to encourage you not to use this page as a measuring rod, or a way to compare your child’s growth to another. (Remember to celebrate, not compare.) Our goal is to help encourage and support families, and we invite you to contact us if you have any additional questions.
Noah’s Life Milestones
0-3 Months Old
3-6 Months Old
Eating From Spoon For The First Time
6-9 Months Old
Drinks From A Straw for the First Time
Eats Baby Food For The First Time
First Father’s Day (And First Banana)
First Visit To In-N-Out Burger
Drinks From A Straw For The First Time
First Trip His Grandparents House
9-12 Months Old
First Down Syndrome Buddy Walk
Self-Feeding For The First Time
Pulling to Stand for the First Time
This list will continue to be updated throughout our son’s life. Please take a second to add your email in box below to stay up to date on all of our latest posts.
This is a great idea…Love keeping up with Noah!
Thanks so much, we enjoy sharing his life with everyone. Is that your son in your profile picture? He look super adorable. Have you posted his picture to our Facebook page yet? http://facebook.com/noahsdadcom ? (Lots of great folks there…who love seeing pictures!)
love this idea cuss i was wondering when lil man did some of those things . thank you for sharing all of this with all of us .
Thanks for the kind words. It will be fun to have a place to keep all of this achievements in one place.
This is awesome! Wish my parents had a milestone page like this
except offline cause computers weren’t that in in those days lool. Keep it up Noah!
Thanks!
My name is Brianne and I have a soon to be 3 year old with down syndrome, his name is Brendon. Your posts with Noah are great!
Thanks! Where are you guys from?
Dear Noah’s Dad, you are great dad!Thanks for sharing Noah wonderful life. I believe that God has His Will through Noah’s life. For God nothing is impossible!!!Now, my 4th kid, Moses is 23 months. Early in the next morning I delivered him,God had told me that He wanted to do something in Moses’s life in order to glorify Him. Our lovely Father in heaven always give us the best.
Haleluyah!!!
You have a very special boy with a very special soul
He is beautiful. God bless him and God bless your family.
Thank you! We have a ton of fun.
Do you have any children?
Great to hear! I don’t have any children yet, but I work with children and love them very dearly
Cheers!
Cool! What sort of work are you in (if you don’t mind me asking)
Hi Rick, sorry for the delay I had a hard time finding which post I had written on!
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As for my work, I do many things ..! – but as for my work with children I am currently part-time babysitting babies-children and I give natural healing sessions to children. I have studied psychology, natural healing methods, relaxation techniques, yoga – so in the near future I would like to create programs for children, God willing. Children are really amazing, and they do need all the help they can get – for them to learn how to grow into this world properly and grow into who they really are and nothing less.
What do you do (if you don’t mind me asking!
Hello, My wife and I just had our first child May 30th. LIttle Ava appears to be born with DS. We meet with a genetics to confirm next Thurday although our midwife and pedi think that she has a few signs for it. I am on an emotional roller coaster right now pretty much a train wreck. I love her to death and just want her to have a great life. I look forward to following Noahs journey.
How was your immediate reaction? I just dont knwo if I am overboard with how I upset I am.
Best,
James
You are not overboard! We cried every day for awhile then it started spacing out. You have to grieve the loss of a child you envisioned and that does not mean you don’t love Ava. You have to adjust to your new future and that takes some time but you guys will do awesome! You will have good days and bad but soon the good will far outweigh the bad
keep us updated on Ava 
James you aint over reactig wgen i first found out my child had down syndrome oh man it felt bad it was 2-3 weeks after i had him. I didnt know how to take it all i was doing was going back and forth with docs i didnt know how to deal with it, and also having no support from the dad it was terrible ..But out of experience all im telling you is accept it and do whatever you can to help your baby they are the greatest and bigest blessing.God has its purpose. Its going to make you and your wife stronger and alot closer. JUST REMEBER YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE! GOD BLESS YOU AND CONGRATS WITH YOUR NEW BABY!
Hello all,
Just an update. It is all but confirmed with genetics that it is DS (just waiting on kereotype. The pain and pretty much self pity and blame i have been feeling is starting to take a back seat. Little Ava is in the chidlrens hospital with low oxygen sat and high red blood cell count. the red blood cell count as started to drop which is great and she is able to stay off the oxygen until she falls asleep or eats. She is starting to feed off the bottled breast milk a bit better about 1.5-2oz per feeding. Everyone just keeps telling us how beutiful she is. We just started telling family and close friends that she has DS and they are shocked, but the support is crazy. I think the biggest part that upset me aobut this is the fear of the future. Three of my groomsmen from my wedding have given birth to baby girls in the past 6 months. I had dreams of them all growing up together. It sounds selfish, but thats the feelings that were driving me crazy. My wife and i have lived at the hospital for the past four days each day seems a bit better, but we can not wait ot get the little one home to start her development. We have an occupational therapist coming tomorrow to help start helping get the feeding to the next level. all i know is that even with the initial shcok from this I want my wife to have ten more babies! Ava is certainly wonderful. I love when we can stare into each others eyes and she turns her head to look at my iphone playing some lalabuys on pandora. i love thats she grasps my finger in her little hands and pushes the bottle away when she doesnt want it. When we get home things are going to be even better. Now its time for mama and daddy to get educated! My wife is just about to finish her masters in Nutrition and didnt have a thesis topic. Thanks to Ava she has found it! I finish my masters of sports leadership next month and never thought about jobs in areas such as the special olympics. This little one is a blessing! Thank you for all the best wishes.
they also found she has a smal ASD but the cardiologist thinks it will close on its own.
Are you guys home yet? How exciting that you guys are using your education already to think how you can help children with DS
I thought about my son not being able to grow up with my friend’s children too, but you want to know what, Noah hangs out with my best friend’s daughter all the time and they have a great time. Ava will be an awesome addition to the group. There may be some differences, and you may get frustrated when developmentally they are typical, however she will teach them so much more 
Thanks for the kind words! We are home two weeks or so now. Still on .1 oxygen, but we have a sleep study at Yale saturday and hopefully she comes off of it. We took her off all day Sunday and her Sat levels stayed up. Ava just had her 1 month birthday on Sunday! She is finally gaining weight up almost a lb from birth! following us with her eyes and even starting to smile a little. We started PT last Friday and have another session this Thursday. LOVE THIS LITTLE GIRL!!! I will post picture to the Facebook page this week.
Hey James, I was just thinking about your guys this evening. How is everything with little Ava? Are are you guys doing? Have you got plugged in to a good group of friends in your area?
Adorable! how cute i Noah?
Hey thanks! Do you have any children by the way?
My husband and I just had a son May 18, 2012. He has downs, we didn’t know through pregnancy and it was a bit of a shock. My husband is 22 and I am 19, 18 when I gave birth. We are looking EVERYWHERE for any kind of information and there is just tons. But your website so far has been the most helpful..and fun : ). Thank you. Y’all are doing a wonderful job.
I do have to ask though…are you all afraid, or worried, or just stressed over how his life will be when he gets older? I don’t know anyone with Downs, so I dont know what to expect. Will he get picked on? Will he find someone who makes him happy? I worry about that all night. Btw, his name is Jackson.
We have all of those worries!!! however I would have those same worries if my child didn’t have Down syndrome. We were Initially upset about the idea of Noah never leaving home, however now I can’t bare to think about that day and he is only 18months. I know it is very likely that he will do just that. Hopefully we can get the world to see that our children are valuable members of the community and should be accepted and loved just as everyone else desires to be. Parents of children with Down syndrome also gain the title of advocate with the birth of their child whether they think they have that title or not we all do this for our children
Patty,
afraid, worried, and stressed! Ava is one month today and we already have a ton of Dr’s appts lined up and start physical therapy tomorrow morning at 9am! It is certainly a shock, but everyday I wake up look at little Ava and realize how blessed we are. It’s a different path, but it doesnt mean there doesnt have to be a path. Its going to be a fun rewarding journey for everyone! Stay strong!
Thank you. Im trying to. Jackson is a little over a month and we haven’t been to any doctors except the cardiologist, should we go about it ourselves to find doctors such as the genetist and everything? Did your doctor set you up with them? It is wonderful, he is soo amazing. Im sure Ava is as well. God bless you for your comment, any little thing helps
We went to the Down syndrome clinic in our area and we did set that up ourselves. It helped explain some things as well as make sure your pediatrician was not missing anything. Usually major Children’s hospitals have a clinic like that. People to see before your child is 6 months is an eye doctor (ophthalmologist) and an ears nose and throat doctor. The second one is for a hearing screening to make sure there are no concerns with hearing as it is hard to tell at 6 months, so you could just see an audiologist. Our pediatrician made recommendations for both of those, but depending on your insurance you can do those things yourself as well. We don’t need referrals so we can make appointments ourselves. Your pediatrician should be able to explain the genetic part of Down syndrome. The reason this is important is that a translocation cause can be hereditary. They would recommend testing for the parents if this was the case. Hope this was helpful.
Thanks, yes it was very helpful. Ill look into all of that. I appreciate you getting back to me.
Hey Patty, I just wanted to touch base and see how you were doing. Have you had a chance to get connected with people in your area? How’s your baby doing? How are you guys doing?
By the way, here is a post we have written about how to connect with others in case you haven’t seen it. http://noahsdad.com/making-new-friends-support-system/
We had a wondeful home birth and about 5 hours after our midwife said everything looks great…..”but, I think she has signs of DS”. We went to the pedi the next day who pretty much confirmed and then went to Yale genetics where it was confirmed a few short days later while we were in the hospital for another issue. We then were set up with a list of Dr’s from cardio to pulimnary to ENT. In Connecticut they have a program called birth to three. They came out and did an evaluation and stated we qualfy for the program because Ava is a child born with DS. She had signficant gross motor skill delay(although most do at 3 weeks old!). We have already started PT. My wifes sister is a pedi chiropractor so we have also started treatment with that on our own as well as an appointment to get some crainal sacral work done. Check out the program for your state. Do a ton of research and come up with a plan of short and long term goals. I appologize for my misspelled rambaling post! I am just tired, excited, and trying to get a blog post in while I have a moment! STAY POSITIVE LOVE YOUR LITTLE ONE AND MOST IMPORTANTLY HAVE FUN!
You are awesome for this. I just gave birth to a beautiful daughter 2 months ago, she has down syndrome, I was concerned about the milestones that she will reach and when she would meet them. I know each child is different but its great to see that children with ds can reach milestones near the same time as “typical” babies. Thank you for sharing!
This is great, thank you so much for this, Noah looks like an amazing young man, looking forward to many many more vids, cheers cartersdad
Thanks so much for the kind words! Does Carter has Down syndrome? How old is he?
Hi sorry for such a delayed reply, yes Carter has Down syndrome and he is now just over 7 months
my mom follows you guys on facebook. my little brother Seth has Down’s Syndorme. hes a lot of fun but reading your story shows my family the bright side of things. also in school im doing a research paper on babies with down’s. the things im learning is helping me understand how the science part of it but your stories helped with feelings.
What an amazing mom and dad y’all are to Noah!!! He is so blessed to have you as his parents. I am a very blessed grandma to a beautiful 3 year old granddaughter who was born with DS. My daughter was 20 and her fiancé was 23 when Kenley was born. My daughter chose not to have any genetic testing done. She was determined to raise her baby regardless. And the fact that they were so young, it really wasn’t an issue. So we thought. To our surprise, Kenley was born with DS. She was so tiny and very sick. They transferred her to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston for more in-depth care. She had multiple issues with her heart and had to have heart surgery when she was 1 yr old. She also suffered from acid reflux and lost the ability to suck on her bottle. She had to have stomach surgery to stop the reflux. She is still unable to swallow but she will eat everything you give her, just doesn’t go down to her tummy (YET). She loves to sing and dance, give hugs and kisses and will just melt your heart. She is the light of our lives. She has taught us so much about what life really means. Thank you for sharing your lil Noah with us. They are gifts from GOD!!!!!