Reasons why babies cannot sit steadily Why can’t babies sit steadily?

Today, I will introduce to you in detail the reasons why babies cannot sit steadily during development. Now I will tell you what we should do if babies cannot sit steadily, and how to correctly help babies develop healthily.

Reasons why babies cannot sit steadily

If your baby cannot sit, it may be related to practice or calcium deficiency. Sitting alone exercise: When the child can sit alone stably, you can focus on training the child's balance ability. Let the child sit alone on the bed or on the floor, and train the child to turn his head and look for something while sitting. You can also prepare a small stool of appropriate size. When the child sits on it, his feet can just touch the ground, and the angles of the soles of the feet and the calves, the calves and the thighs, and the thighs and the trunk are all at right angles. Parents hold the child's thighs with their hands, not his back, and let him find the balance point by himself. After the child sits up straight, the adult can try to release one hand, hold only one side of the child's thigh with one hand, and use the other hand to attract the child to turn his head and look for the toy. Alternate left and right to induce the child to turn left and right, find the balance point while learning to turn, and practice using his feet to support the body. Take the baby to the hospital to check trace elements or bone alkaline phosphatase, and supplement according to the calcium situation. Eat more calcium-rich foods and get more sun to promote calcium absorption.

How to help your baby learn to sit

Lifting your baby's head and chest helps strengthen his neck muscles and develop the head control he needs to sit up. You can play with your baby lying facedown on his tummy and then tease him to lift his head and look up. Use brightly colored noise-making toys or mirrors to tease your baby and check that his hearing and vision are developing normally. Once your baby is able to sit up better, you can also place toys and other interesting objects just out of reach to keep him focused while he learns to balance on his arms.

Likewise, when your baby is learning to sit, you should be especially careful to stay by his side to prevent him from falling down, or when he suddenly wants to show off his newfound skills, you should always pay attention to his safety!

I need to remind you that if your baby still cannot hold his head up steadily at around 6 months old and has not started to learn to support his body with his arms, you should tell the doctor about this the next time you take your baby to the hospital for a physical examination. The baby's motor skills develop earlier or later, but head control is the basic prerequisite for him to learn other skills, and sitting is the key factor in crawling, standing, and walking.

If your baby was born prematurely, keep in mind that premature babies may be slower than other children of the same age to learn to sit and reach other developmental milestones.

Will it affect the baby's development if he can't sit?

The new study found that the subjects of the new study involved 18,818 9-month-old British babies, which was completed by the University of London. The researchers conducted a series of tests on these babies' gross motor skills (skills such as running, sitting, jumping, climbing, and balancing) and fine motor skills (hand-eye coordination skills such as picking up objects). The test results found that the vast majority of children can sit up without support, crawl, grab objects, or transfer objects from one hand to another, pick up objects with the thumb and index finger, and nearly 70% of children can stand with support. Children with developmental delays who find it difficult to do the above movements are at a much higher risk of falling behind in academic performance at the age of 5.

Ingrid Schoen, the head of the study, said that children's developmental progress varies, but a child who cannot sit or crawl at 9 months may have a developmental delay that requires professional help and should not be taken lightly.

In short, follow the child's growth laws and habits so that the baby can develop comprehensively and grow up healthily.