Sunday, August 28, 2011

More Muscle Strength for Your Babies

By Jane Lauper


Six-month-old newborns often seem completely happy within their physiques. They often use all four limbs gradually and rhythmically. They like bodily action for its own sake and keep testing the limits of their own power when they fight to roll right over or to lift up their shoulder muscles further from the floor. They appear to recognise, now, that their various parts comprise bodies which are all a piece.

As we have experienced, muscle management will start at the very top and goes downwards. So at this point the newborn's usage of his upper half, his head, shoulders, arms and hands, is well ahead of his use of his lower half. He can work with his arms and hands for correct reaching out, and he can make use of his head to track moving objects with his eyes. He doesn't yet have identical control of his hips, knees and feet. It is competence of these muscle groups for which the child will have difficulties. The battle to stop lying around and become a sitter, a crawling quadruped and a walking biped is on.

If you ever put your six-month-old baby squarely on his bottom on the floor, spread his legs a part, get him balanced and after that slowly but surely remove both hands, he will probably remain "sitting" for three or four seconds. His muscular control has already moved on downward to a degree where he is able to keep himself directly from the top of his head to his bent hips. But it has not yet yet reached a point where he can balance himself in this position.

By 7 to eight months some infants will have sorted out this stability problem for themselves by leaning forward and supporting by themselves with both hands flat on the floor in front of them. If the baby uses up this position he'll be comparatively firm and he will surely be resting, nonetheless it will never be an incredibly useful king of "sitting alone." With both of his hands occupied in producing balance, he could not enjoy or even suck his thumb. And also, since he needs to lean forward to get his hands safely on to the floor, he cannot see anything very interesting either.

Many babies are going to be eight to nine months old when they acquire independent stability, without having support from an adult or their own hands. But still, sitting can be more for training than for use. Even if your child can balance in a sitting down posture for a minute or maybe more, he still topples over when he turns his head or reaches out a hand. It will take him one more month of regular practice before sitting replaces lying down or being propped as the posture in which he went on the majority of his walking life.




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