Do You Know Where Your Child/Kids Are? Advice for New Parents Tips

It is a delightful and happiest moment of seeing your baby grow and develop new skills. You watch and wonder, “Is my baby developing normally?” You may be looking at a list of developmental milestones in the net and keep asking about that to your Doctor and worrying whether or not your baby is coming along okay. This article will define what are normal developmental milestones from newborns to 12 months, and then discuss common developmental delays with autism spectrum disorder in babies.

DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES

Please remember that all milestones below have been simplified to provide easy “mental markers.”

At 3 months, your baby is likely to:

• respond to singing, spontaneously smile at you.
• his head up 90 degrees (from prone position).

At 6 months, your baby is likely to:

• Rolling. sit with support. She enjoys exploring objects in her environment with her eyes, hands, and mouth.

• laugh (starts at 4 months). She should make good eye contact and smile interactively. She may play peek-a-boo. start saying nonspecific “bababa” and “dadada”,
  

At 9 months, your baby is likely to:

• Understand simple commands, imitate sounds, and respond to his name show stranger anxiety.Sit independently, get to sitting, and stand while holding on.
  

At 1 year, your baby is likely to:

• She begins creeping upstairs. Most one-year-olds can pull themselves to stand and lower themselves to sit. She may begin walking
• Indicate wants without crying, using pointing or verbalization.
  

What should you do if your baby is not doing some of the activities listed above? Here we mention some of the warning signs in brief to be taken in account.

DEVELOPMENTAL WARNING SIGNS:

• Poor head control after 3 months.
• Extreme irritability or crying after 3 months
• Failure to smile by 3 month
• Stiff or rigid arms or legs
• Pushing away or arching back as a typical posture
• Floppy or limp body posture
• Cannot sit up without support by 8 months
• Uses ones side of body or only the arms to crawl
• Persistent gagging or choking when fed
• Tongue persistently pushes soft food out of mouth after 6 months
• Poor speech and language skills even after 2 years.
• Inappropriate play eg. child may continuously spin the wheels of a toy car rather than push it
• May line up toys or other objects
• Trouble interacting with others
• Poor eye contact
• Walking on toes
• Hand flapping
• Tendency to have narrowly focused and odd interests
• Not asking for things in the same way as other children
• Failure to show objects to others
• Failure to orient to one's name being called
• Failure to engage in reciprocal play where there is a back-and-forth between two people
• Failure to copy others' motor movements
• May not use pointing to direct another person's attention
• May resist social touch such as hugging
• Be easily distracted, miss details, forget things, and frequently switch from one activity to another
• Have difficulty maintaining focus on one taskHave difficulty focusing attention on organizing and completing a task or learning something new or trouble completing or turning in homework assignments, often losing things (e.g., pencils, toys, assignments) needed to complete tasks or activities
• Not seem to listen when spoken to
• Have difficulty processing information as quickly and accurately as others
• Fidget and squirm in their seats
• Talk nonstop
• Dash around, touching or playing with anything and everything in sight
• Have trouble sitting still during dinner, school, and story time
• Be constantly in motion
• Have difficulty doing quiet tasks or activities.
• Be very impatient
• Blurt out inappropriate comments, show their emotions without restraint, and act without regard for consequences
• Have difficulty waiting for things they want or waiting their turns in games.
  

First: don’t panic; this does NOT automatically mean that something is wrong. Please, don’t be afraid to ask for an evaluation. At best, you will be reassured. If a delay is identified, you have done your baby a favour in getting early intervention.

What if it turns out that your child does have a delay? Early intervention is key. In Happy feet Paediatric Therapy centre we will show you ways to work with your child to help him in the area of the delay. A good therapist will empower parents to help the baby learn the necessary skills. There are usually many things that you can do as part of your daily activity with the baby. Regular screening and early intervention are the best ways to maximize your child’s development and functioning.

Happy Parenting!
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