Today we would like to talk about the development of babies, namely, motor reflexes. Undoubtedly, every mother knows that a child who moves is healthy, because he thus manifests interest in the world around him and wants to know him. From our article you will learn about how the development of the child from birth to the year should take place.
Caring for his baby, during the first year of life, parents notice how his motor behavior changes. Emerging in the process of interaction with the mother, all the skills of the child develop: sensory (the ability to sense), motor, emotional reactions, cognitive processes and speech.
The first motor reactions of the infant are based on unconditioned reflexes. It is an occasional grasp of objects embedded in the handle, search by mouth and sucking, flinching with sharp sound, light, automatic gait, an occasional stop of looking at the subject caught in the field of vision, taking a certain position in a certain position, etc.
At the end of the second month of life, the infant can already control the movement of the eyes, stop them on the objects of interest, and trace, as long as they are slow, the slow movements of these objects. The unconditioned reflexes, such as crawling reflexes, automatic gait, unclear asymmetric cervical-tonic reflex, begin to extinguish unconditioned reflexes, the number of active movements increases and the tonus and muscular tension of the upper limbs decreases.
At the beginning of the third month, the baby has reflexes that allow the legs and arms to unbend, and the so-called cervical symmetrical reflex (especially pronounced at the age of four months), so that the karapuz lifts the entire shoulder girdle together with the head.
During the third and fourth months of life, the child develops visual-motor coordination: lying on his back, the kid raises the handles to the face and scrutinizes them closely, watches the movement of objects and reaches out to them, is motivated to see interesting objects when they are on an accessible distance. The development of visual-motor coordination of the movement of hands together with the vision control gives the child the opportunity to carry out purposeful actions (active snapping of toys).
At the age of five months of age, the baby can turn from the back to the tummy itself. With the help of an adult sits down, and by six months sits alone. At seven months, the increased muscular tension decreases, the support reaction appears, and the extensor tone develops. By eight months, the motor activity is rapidly increasing: he gets on all fours, sits down, confidently turns his head, turns over on his tummy and back. In the subject manipulations, both hands participate, takes objects. At nine months old the kid tries to get up, helps himself with pens, pulls up, straightens his knees. By ten months he gets up without the help of an adult, but falls. He plays with toys for a long time, at the same time, for the first time, the second and third fingers are actively involved in the work of the hands. At the beginning of the second year of life, most babies can walk, maintain an unstable balance.
As a result, the child has the ability to control the movement of the head, trunk and hands, which allows him to sit, walk, snap and hold his head. It is these reactions that allow the child to expand the fields of perception and appearance of the forms of his objective activity. Their absence in the behavior of a one-year-old child should alert the parents who, immediately, should consult a pediatric neurologist or psychoneurologist.
Parents, watch for the developmental movement of your child, and if necessary, consult a doctor. However, for its part, it takes a lot of effort. You are the guide of the child to life. Make it bright and interesting!