Your baby will learn to hold objects like small toys or rattles, and she'll learn to reach for things she wants. By 6 months, some babies will be able to pass objects from hand to hand.

Whether you're breastfeeding or bottle-feeding, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that babies not start solid foods until 4 to 6 months of age.

At 3 months, the average baby takes between 4 and 6 ounces at a feeding and feeds seven times a day, for a total of 30 ounces of milk. This amount will increase slightly through the 4th and 5th months, then go back down to about 30 ounces as the baby starts solid food.

As the baby becomes more interested in the world around her, new breastfeeding challenges may arise. She may be distracted during feedings. And she may even whip her head around to look at something across the room – without letting go of your breast first! "If distraction becomes a problem, try to be in an environment with as little distraction as possible when you nurse," says Carol Dittbenner, a lactation consultant in Roseville, Minn.

Mothers who are returning to work and pumping breast milk face another set of challenges. Angie Larson, of Minneapolis, Minn., went back to work three days a week when her daughter, Madeline, was 5 months old. She tried to pump, but ran into difficulty. "I'd send her with two or three bottles to day care and then try to pump, but she was running out of milk at day care and I couldn't keep up," Larson says.

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