With each month the child is gaining weight. Parents have the opportunity to control the weight gain of the child, they should know that this figure should be from 140 grams to 170 grams per week. Therefore, your baby by the four months of life should gain weight from 600 grams to 750 grams. Accordingly, the height of the baby should increase by 2 cm or 2.5 cm.
The child gradually develops, the muscles are improved, the body acquires a formed and strong appearance. These indicators - just an oriented norm, with which parents should keep under control the physical development of the baby. Individual growth rates and body weight increases for each child have long been programmed by nature.
Physical development of the child in 4 months
At the end of 4 months the child, when lying on the tummy, is already quite confidently holding his head. Even if he lies on the back, he can easily lift his head to look at his legs. The kid loves to turn his head in all directions, he watches with interest your actions and for you, examines everything around.
At 4 months he is already able to turn over from the back on his tummy. The kid, when he lies on the tummy, keeps his body when leans on the forearms of both hands. To grab something interesting, he can already release one hand and, holding on to one handle, can hold the chest and head, reach for the toy.
He is improving the coordination of the handles. He raises his hands and watches them with an expedient, coordinated look. His fingers are not compressed, the handle is straightened. When a child takes a toy, he holds it and drives it in different directions and watches closely how it moves. Such an exercise gives the crumb a great joy. The most "sweet" tastes are his own fists, fingers and rattles.
During this period of his life, the most beloved of his exercises is a "bicycle", when he alternately lifts his legs. At times the child extends his legs in the knees, but when his legs are in a bent state and he lies quietly. If you do gymnastics with him, you can see that if we compare the previous month, then the motor activity of the legs has greatly improved in all joints.
If you put the baby on the feet, you can see how it unbends and bends the legs. These exercises will help in strengthening the legs. It delivers to the kid pleasure, if it is accompanied by children's songs.
During bathing a child of 4 months wants to swim on the tummy. He snorts, moans, makes movements with pens and screams when he can not make these movements. In such movements, the baby manifests a desire to learn to crawl. Help the kid in his endeavors.
Some parents think that at 4 months the baby should sit and to accelerate this process they put the child in cushions. The child likes it, he keeps the head upright. But you can not do this:
- the muscles of the child are not strong enough to sit in this position;
- you can not leave your baby sitting in one position for long enough, because the back of the child can not be in the upright position, it arches, tires the child and promotes deformation of the spine. Do not rush events. You need to use this exercise when you are doing gymnastics with your child: for this, take him by the arms and pull him up in a sitting position, and then quietly and quietly lower it. This exercise strengthens the spine of the baby.
During gymnastics with the baby you can hear some crackling in his knee and elbow joints. No need to worry, this is because the articular apparatus is not yet mature, it includes cartilages, tendons, bones, muscles. After a while, doing gymnastics and massage muscles of the trunk, legs, pens, they will get stronger in the child and then these phenomena will not disturb you and your baby.
The physical development of the baby in 4 months should be under your supervision, and under the supervision of a doctor. It is necessary to perform in 4 months of exercise and all the prescriptions of a child's doctor.