With what impatience the parents wait for the first step of the kid. But, everything is good in its season, and it is impossible to force such event in any way. If to look from the medical point of view, then the child has to take the first steps in an interval from 9 to 18 months, but at each child it occurs individually. And if your girlfriend or the neighbor has a child same on age as well as yours, already runs, and yours also does not try, not to be necessary to put by force it on legs. If on planned surveys the pediatrician and the orthopedist at the child were all right, the child just means it is not ready to please you with the first steps yet. It seems to the adult that here difficult, move legs and go to yourself. Actually it absolutely not so. For the kid it is huge work, both from psychology, and from physiology.
There is such opinion if the child started anew to creep, then he will start walking earlier, but it not always so. There are children who sit, and then at once become on legs. Just the creeping tots, thanks to active loading, have stronger muscles of legs and when they try the first step, will be more sure of the movements.
That it is possible to make to help the kid to zatopat quicker. There are several councils:
- Massage is very useful. If you did not do it since the birth, then to begin never late. Now there are a lot of video lessons, councils, recommendations as the child can most make massage. The main thing, it has to bring pleasure to you and to the child, then be sure, you do everything correctly. If you doubt yourself, ask the children's massage therapist to carry out several massages, and you will observe and then will be able to do. Believe, in it there is nothing difficult at all.
- Comfortable clothes. The kid has to feel comfortably, then he will be more confident in himself. The clothes have to be by the size, especially kolgotochka or socks.
- Pool. Thanks to water procedures, all muscles very well become stronger. If you resemble with the kid swimming, it will be only plus, and not only for the child.
- Comfortable, qualitative footwear. Yes, be not surprised even if the kid did not start walking yet, but his age can already allow him it, pick up good footwear. It is of great importance for the first steps. Footwear has to be leather, with firm, fixing a leg, a back, is picked surely up for the size if you take for growth, then to the kid in it it will be inconvenient, and it will only cling and fall. Only do not think that the child has to be the whole day in footwear. Circulation, with mother's support, barefoot, and if also on an uneven surface, for example on smooth pebbles or a rubber rug with hillocks, very much strengthens legs and also prevents development of flat-footedness.
You can help the kid, encouraging and extolling him, so, he will take more safely the first samples in walking. Sit down at step distance from the tot and give it hands, it will stimulate it to take to you a step. You also should take care of that around the child it was safe, the kid in the period of the first steps will grab handles, for secure, everything around therefore near him there should not be objects which can overturn and fall. Also you remember that to leave the kid of one in the room it is impossible at all.
The main thing, this patience, and the kid by all means will please you with the first steps.