# Baby Book — Progress and Health Record

Source: user-provided photo of a page from Michael's baby book, stored on 2026-04-25.

## Overview
This appears to be a baby milestone and health record page, likely recorded in 1975. It includes developmental milestones, special tests carried out at a baby health centre, and recorded weights from 3 months to 2 years.

## Transcription

### Left page — Baby's Progress
- Begins to smile — [not filled / unclear]
- Holds up head — 16/4/75
- Crows and laughs aloud — [not filled / unclear]
- Reaches for toys and handles them — [not filled / unclear]
- Able to sit erect — 31/5/75
- Crawls and attempts to stand — 4-9-75
- Stands with assistance — 22/4/75
- First tooth — 18/9/75
- First step — 11 months, 2 weeks
- Walks alone — ditto marks shown / not clearly filled separately
- First word — [very faint / unclear]
- First sentence — [not filled / unclear]

### Right page — Date of special tests carried out at the baby health centre
- Urine test — 28-1-75
- Hearing test — 19-6-75

### Right page — Baby's Weight
- Weight at 3 months — 13 lbs
- Weight at 6 months — 19 lbs 2 oz
- Weight at 12 months — 26 lbs 8 oz
- Weight at 18 months — 30 lbs 8 oz
- Weight at 2 years — 31 lbs 12 oz

## Notes on readability / uncertainty
- Some entries are blank, faint, smudged, or partly obscured by marks on the page.
- "Able to sit erect" looks like `31/5/75`.
- "Stands with assistance" appears to read `22/4/75`, though that date seems earlier than some preceding milestones, so there may be either a handwriting ambiguity or an out-of-order entry.
- "First step" appears to read `11 months, 2 weeks`.
- "Walks alone" has ditto marks beneath the first-step line, but no clearly separate value is visible.
- "First word" is extremely faint and not confidently readable from this image.

## Interpretation
This page is a small family-health record snapshot from Michael's infancy, capturing:
- early developmental milestones
- health-centre testing dates
- growth / weight progression over the first two years

It is both a practical record and a personal family artefact.
