How many months old is a 2 year old?

Q: How old is a 2 and a half year old in months?

Your Childs Development: 2.5 Years (30 Months)

Please enter the years number to calculate the number of months. For example 2 years is equal to 12 x 2 = 24 months.

1 Year = 12 Months

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How many months in a year? 1 year is equal to 12 months.

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Years to Months Conversion Table

Years	Months
1 Year	12 Months
2 Years	24 Months
3 Years	36 Months
4 Years	48 Months
5 Years	60 Months
6 Years	72 Months
7 Years	84 Months
8 Years	96 Months
9 Years	108 Months
10 Years	120 Months
11 Years	132 Months
12 Years	144 Months
13 Years	156 Months
14 Years	168 Months
15 Years	180 Months
16 Years	192 Months
17 Years	204 Months
18 Years	216 Months
19 Years	228 Months
20 Years	240 Months
21 Years	252 Months
22 Years	264 Months
23 Years	276 Months
24 Years	288 Months

Years	Months
25 Years	300 Months
26 Years	312 Months
27 Years	324 Months
28 Years	336 Months
29 Years	348 Months
30 Years	360 Months
31 Years	372 Months
32 Years	384 Months
33 Years	396 Months
34 Years	408 Months
35 Years	420 Months
36 Years	432 Months
37 Years	444 Months
38 Years	456 Months
39 Years	468 Months
40 Years	480 Months
41 Years	492 Months
42 Years	504 Months
43 Years	516 Months
44 Years	528 Months
45 Years	540 Months
46 Years	552 Months
47 Years	564 Months
48 Years	576 Months

Years	Months
49 Years	588 Months
50 Years	600 Months
51 Years	612 Months
52 Years	624 Months
53 Years	636 Months
54 Years	648 Months
55 Years	660 Months
56 Years	672 Months
57 Years	684 Months
58 Years	696 Months
59 Years	708 Months
60 Years	720 Months
61 Years	732 Months
62 Years	744 Months
63 Years	756 Months
64 Years	768 Months
65 Years	780 Months
66 Years	792 Months
67 Years	804 Months
68 Years	816 Months
69 Years	828 Months
70 Years	840 Months
71 Years	852 Months
72 Years	864 Months

What are development milestones in toddlers?

By the time children reach 12 months of age, they are considered to be ‘toddlers’. While toddlers can vary in their size shape and personality, there is a well-defined time frame over which most toddlers will reach their developmental milestones.

Just like babies, toddlers develop and reach these milestones when they feel safe and loved. Toddlers also need plenty of sleep and a variety of healthy foods. Try to make sure your child gets 11 to 14 hours of sleep over a 24-hour period spread over a long sleep overnight and 1 to 2 shorter sleeps during the day.

Read about toddlers’ sleep needs.

If you have any concerns about whether your child is reaching these milestones within an expected period, talk to your doctor or a child health nurse.

Physical and skills milestones

Your toddler may be able to stand up without help from you or other support between 12 and 15 months. Once they can stand, they soon start to explore more.

Many toddlers start walking on their own between 12 and 15 months but it is normal for others to start walking at 15 to 18 months. With practice, they may even start climbing stairs or on furniture and start running. Toddlers are very busy, active and curious about the world they live in. Your toddler may start to dance in place to music, kick and throw a ball, scribble and finger feed more efficiently during this time.

12-15 months

Between 12 and 15 months, toddlers learn a lot about their world by shaking and banging things and putting them together in piles or towers then knocking them apart.

They may be able to point to the people and things they know when you ask them.

Your toddler may start to drink from a cup and continue to improve in self feeding by picking up different types and textures of food.

15-18 months

By 18 months, most toddlers have a lot more control over their hand and arm movements and may try to help you dress them.

Your toddler may attempt skills such as using a pencil or spoon, or drinking from a cup. They will also gain more control of the movements needed for those skills that will enable them to start picking up very small objects, such as small stones or parts of toys. It is very important to watch what your toddler picks up in case they try to swallow it or put it in their ear or nose.

Emotional milestones

At 12 months, your toddler will have well developed emotional attachments to people and start to show them affection. Usually at about 14 months, they will start to feel separation anxiety when they are fearful of being separated from you.

Some toddlers start to throw temper tantrums.

12-15 months

Your toddler will start to understand how others feel — for example, by looking sad if someone near them appears sad or is crying.

15-18 months

Your toddler may begin to become self-aware and show signs of embarrassment if people are watching them.

Thinking and communication milestones

You’ve probably noticed for several months that your baby seems to ‘babble’. Now you’ll start to hear real words among the grunts, nods and pointing. There may be 1 or 2 words at about 12 months, increasing to 6 or more words by 18 months.

By 18 months, your toddler will know the purpose of some things, such as phones and brushes.

12-15 months

Between 12 and 15 months, your toddler will also begin to:

hug you
point to body parts or favourite things when you name them
follow simple instructions — if you ask them to give you something and hold out your hand, they will most likely do it

15-18 months

Between 15 and 18 months, toddlers are able to recognise their own names. By 18 months, they can understand and follow simple instructions such as fetching something from another room without needing to be prompted by gestures.

By 18 months, your toddler may recognise themselves in the mirror.

Read about helping your toddler learn to talk.

Helping your toddler’s development

To help your toddler develop in this period and reach the milestones in the normal range, you can:

show lots of warmth and love with hugs and kisses
play with them, using objects such as blocks, plastic containers and pegs, or parts of the body, such as in peek-a-boo
play with them in a pretend way, such as pretending to drink a cup of tea, or playing with dolls
talk to them — name things that you’re using and are in contact with such as furniture, colours and people’s names
read, sing nursery rhymes and sing songs
encourage skills such as using a spoon and drinking from a cup (and understand that it will be messy for a while)
encourage them to walk and explore, but stay close so they feel safe
encourage play with other children, but be conscious that ‘sharing’ is not a concept they will understand yet (although ‘mine’ certainly is)
Feed them a variety of healthy foods including different colours and soft textures (such as cooked vegetables or fruit, eggs)

Read about play and exercise.

If you’re concerned

You should contact your doctor or child health nurse if by 18 months your toddler doesn’t:

enjoy eye contact or cuddles
use any single words
follow simple instructions
point, wave or use other gestures
have ‘pretend play’
walk
see or hear things clearly
retain skills they once had
notice or appear to mind when you leave or return

Vaccinations

At 12 months, your child will receive their measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), pneumococcal and meningococcal ACWY vaccinations.

At 18 months, they should receive the measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox (varicella) (MMRV) vaccination, the diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis) vaccination and the Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b) vaccine.

Find out more about the Australian vaccination program.