Did the baby walk late using a walker?

Using a walker to affect large motor development

Using a walker can help parents save a lot of effort during their toddlers' walks. As everyone knows, the "small profits" brought by these walkers may bring about "big disadvantages."

According to a series of child relief guidelines released by the Ministry of Health, falling is the main cause of child injury and the leading cause of non-fatal injuries and disability among children. It is also the first cause of injury for children aged 0-5 years. The fall from walkers is also one of the main causes of child injury, so the guide recommends that parents do not let babies use walkers.

In fact, the use of walkers is not only a matter of safety, but more importantly, the use of walkers will also affect the children's ability to develop large sports. Liu Zhaoqiu, director of the Preventive Health Department at the First Affiliated Hospital of Tsinghua University, said that in the course of lectures for parents, the People's Insurance Section usually advises parents not to use baby walkers. The reason for this is not only because of the use of walkers to harm children. There are many cases, but it is because using a walker can affect the development of children's intelligence.

She said that the intelligence problem referred to here mainly refers to the development of the big movement. Every child needs to follow the development of a large motor development. After the child is half a year old, he goes through the process from crawling to standing and walking. In order to save effort, many parents use baby walkers to start walking when the children have not yet learned to stand. This way of walking tends to make children walk on the inertia of the walker instead of walking on their own balance.

The consequence of this is that children's own development of balance ability is affected, so the parents who hoped to let the children advance through the walker, but the final result is that the children actually learned to walk independently delayed the time. Liu Zhaoqiu said that there have been investigations and studies that show that children who use walkers stand alone and walk more often than children who do not use walkers.

However, many parents are irritated by the fact that they have already adopted a walker for their children, and even worried about their children's development. Liu Zhaoqiu said that if the child is not harmed or left with sequelae in the course of use, the parents do not have to worry. If parents find that children have some problems in walking patterns, such as walking on the toes, walking inside and outside the characters, etc., you need to seek medical advice in time.

Learn first and then walk to learn the most reliable

“My baby is still a year old and will not go away. It’s really an emergency.” A netizen named “mamammi1980” made a post on a parenting forum. It is the wish of many young parents to hope that children can walk early. Some parents even said that “early walking children are smart, or at least strong in athletic ability”.

In this regard, Liu Zhaoqiu stressed that the development of children's athletic ability has its own laws, and parents need not worry too much.

In general, the first major exercise ability that a child needs to train after birth is prone. When the baby is two or three months old, he should be able to lie down and look up. After four months, you need to train your baby's ability to sit. From the beginning of sitting on, to five or six months to learn to sit alone. After that, in seven or eight months, the baby will begin to train his ability to crawl. And in about ten months, we must begin to learn to stand, stand from holding something to standing against the wall and stand alone.

With the foundation to stand alone, the baby can begin to learn to walk. When you start to learn to walk, the baby needs the care of the parents, and you can also use some auxiliary tools, but the premise to choose these tools is not to affect the baby's ability to exercise their own balance. Liu Zhaoqiu suggested that parents can use a large towel or a belt to tie a child to assist with walking, or use some small carts. After your child has walked for a period of time, he or she should observe or inquire whether the child is tired and take a rest at a proper time.

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"Early learning to damage vision" is not scientific

Some babies are born with the desire to “won't climb and learn to go,” and at this time the network’s hot post worryed their parents.

The reporter saw a hot-swappable post on many parenting forums: toddlers are prone to premature myopia. According to the post, infants and toddlers within the age of one year may damage vision. In this regard, Wu Xi, chief physician of the Department of Ophthalmology at Peking University People's Hospital, said that parents do not need to worry too much. In general, the visual acuity of infants and young children around their age is relatively mature, close to normal, at this time children learn to walk, let it go straight, More open, you can make the radius of sight increase, but it is conducive to the development of vision.

Some parents also worry that there will be more outdoor activities during the toddler's walk. Ultraviolet rays and infrared rays in the sun will damage the baby's vision. Wu Xi said that as long as the sunlight is not strong at noon, it should not be enough to damage the eyesight. However, in order to protect the baby's vision, parents should be best able to teach children to walk in shade, eaves and other dark places.

In addition, Wu Xi also stressed that parents do not worry about the child's vision of damage to children, it would be better to pay more attention to text, books, damage to the baby's eyes. Wu Xi said that premature exposure to text books, animations, etc., will damage the baby's vision, it is best to be exposed to such things after the baby is 2 years old.

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