why do we refer to infants above a year in months?

Question

For example we refer to infants over a year as 13 months, 16 months, 24 months, etc. Is there a reason for this convention?

In: Biology

Answer 1

An 18 month old is as different from a 12 month old as a 12 month old is from a 6 month old

They only really stop growing so fast that you have to specify month around year two.