The first three months in the world or the ideal development of the baby – part 1.
The first weeks and months of life are crucial from the point of view of motor development and a good start of motor skills. It seems very early. The movement of the child is often solved after half a year of life, sometimes around the 9th month or year. And it’s very late. Since the child sees, his engine of development is the desire to get to the seen object. If it does not work physiologically, it creates spare mechanisms.Thus, from the 6th week of life, the baby can develop on replacement mechanisms. He fixes them and strengthens them with all the activity. Therefore, it is ideal and easiest to capture the development at the moment when replacement patterns are not created and fixed. If you missed the beginning, there’s nothing you can do, and the best thing you can do is not wait any longer.
That is why we want to guide you through the movement development of the child, in terms of quality, so that you can read your child’s movement accordingly. It is not possible to capture everything, so if you have any doubts, do not be afraid to contact us, we will be happy to help you.
1st month of life
When a baby is born and leaves the mother’s womb, it struggles with a lot of changes in the new environment. It has to cope with the influence of gravity, begins to breathe on its own, control its temperature, receive food through the mouth and thus struggle with digestion and excretion. It can see, but only sharply at a short distance and is not yet able to follow the object that has caught its eye. Despite this, he perceives all around him at once a lot of new not only visual, but also auditory, olfactory, taste and tactile sensations. All this places high demands on the body of a small newborn, which is why he eats or sleeps most of the day.
The position of a healthy newborn is asymmetrical, often preferring one side where he looks – this is called physiological predilection. However, it should be able to turn the head smoothly with an adequate stimulus, e.g. when we cover its view, or it feels the smell of the mother’s breast from the other side.
When the watchful person lies on his back, he usually moves his whole body in an uncoordinated way, we can observe kicking with his feet, untargeted throwing of his hands, opening and clenching his fingers into a fist. When we put him on his tummy, he lies on his knees and his hands are bent, his head is turned to one side so that he can breathe, but helical motion he can turn his head to the other side and back.
První tři měsíce na světě, aneb ideální psychomotorický vývoj miminka – 2.díl