How to teach the child to hold the head

How to teach the child to hold the head

In the first year of life of the kid there is an acquisition of many skills – fixation of a look, a head continence, crawling, ability to sit, rise and go. On their timeliness it is possible to judge development of the child which entirely depends on the parents providing the kid with the correct leaving, good nutrition and physical strengthening of an organism.

Instruction

1. The ability to hold a head appears at the kid at the end of the second month. However it is not excluded earlier or later acquisition of this skill. Its long absence (more than 3 months) can demonstrate lag in physical development which depends on a number of factors – insufficient receipt or digestion of food, the congenital, hereditary and also postponed diseases, the wrong care and mistakes in education.

2. For normal development of the kid it is necessary to strengthen since the birth his muscles and a bone skeleton by means of massage and gymnastics and also to temper by means of water procedures. Since 2-3 weeks before each feeding of the newborn it is possible to stack on a stomach. It well develops ability to hold the head, strengthens muscles of a stomach and a back. It is necessary to begin since several minutes and at the first signs of exhaustion to overturn from a stomach on a back. Over time (in 1-2 weeks) to allow to lie down to the kid on a tummy it is possible for a thicket, for example, between feedings.

3. From 1-1.5 months it is good to hold and carry the kid in situation on a stomach, holding with one hand a neck and a head, and other stomach. Since the same time it is possible to keep the kid in vertical position, since several minutes and, gradually, increasing time. To the exercises developing a head continence, the easy pripodnimaniye of the kid for handles belongs.

4. Swimming of newborns has very good effect earlier. Such children develop much quicker and physically and emotionally as water strengthens not only muscles, but also nervous system. At regular trainings since the birth it is possible to teach the child to hold the head before the put term.

5. You should not forget that physical development of the child requires good nutrition which quality during this period depends on mom's diet. Therefore for the period of a lactation there has to be an obligatory receipt of full range of vitamins and minerals, either with food, or in the form of medicines and also enough proteins, fats and carbohydrates.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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