Not all parents of small children well represent what is walkers and as their application can affect health of the child. Before use of such adaptation it is better to consult with the pediatrician.
With the small child on hands to feel freely a little difficult. Around devices which help mothers to release hands, disputes are conducted much. Jollyjumpers, walkers, baby slings and backpacks-kangaroo – someone considers that only irresponsible and lazy mothers can use them. But there is nothing bad in use of these devices if to observe a measure.
From what age it is possible to use walkers
Before seating the kid in walkers, parents can ask the pediatrician a set of questions which meaning comes down to the following: Whether "It is necessary? whether" and "Harmfully?"
It should be noted that pediatricians of an old school can really consider walkers unnecessary or harmful. But most of progressive doctors belong to such adaptation more loyally. For example, a question from what age it is possible to seat the child in walkers, almost all answer that the earliest age for this purpose – half a year. At the age of half a year the child can sit quite surely and it is good, without the aid of the adult, holds a back. But the time spent in walkers should not be tightened – for the kid it is quite serious loading. Walkers should be used according to the level of physical development of the child. Before buying such device for the child, it is necessary to get acquainted with contraindications.
In what cases you should not place the child in walkers
It is not necessary to use such adaptation if to the child half a year was already executed, but physically he is badly prepared. It can be expressed in inability to directly sit and hold a back. Inflammations of skin in those places where it adjoins to a seat; symptoms of rickets of any stage; gippo- or a hyper tone of legs of the kid – any of such troubles in development can be the reason for refusal of walkers. It is impossible to seat in the child's adaptation with violation in operation of the musculoskeletal device. If the kid is afraid of a new way of movement – means while it not for it, it is not necessary to force. To begin to use walkers follows gradually – since three minutes on twice a day. Gradually time can be increased by a couple of minutes in day. A limit – 40 minutes. At prolonged stay in walkers at the child the back can ache – at more advanced age it will pass into a serious problem. For prevention of flat-footedness it is necessary to care for that the child well put a leg on a floor. Walkers have to be adjusted on height, to choose footwear for the kid with a firm sole. It is impossible to leave him sitting in walkers unguarded – small children are unpredictable and if the help of the adult is required, it has to be rendered in due time.