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The birth of a newborn baby is exciting and joyful for a family, but for Xiaoli, two babies are born. Months later, anxiety and anxiety began to appear, because her baby is 2 months old, but still can't laugh.
In life, there are many parents who share the same concerns as Xiaoli. If they see that their baby is obviously behind in a certain development, they will doubt whether there is a problem with the baby’s development or even intelligence Low, I feel very entangled and worried every day.
What is mental retardation?
Infant and young children’s mental retardation, also known as mental retardation, means that the level of infant and young children’s intellectual development is significantly lagging behind that of children of the same age. It is usually due to brain damage, or due to poor development, which causes persistent obstacles to cognitive activities.
Children with mental retardation are communicating and playing. They are all different from ordinary people in their studies. They have various obstacles in behavior, language, and understanding, and they also lack the ability to take care of themselves. They are often discriminated against by others and look strangely, leading to extreme low self-esteem and emotional irritability and crying easily.
Generally, mild mental retardation will have the ability to adapt to society under guidance, but severe mental retardation will require family care for a long time. It is a blow to parents, both physically and mentally.
Babies who are born with low intelligence generally cannot escape these 4 characteristics. If your baby has the following symptoms, be sure to be alert immediately.
4 signals for babies with mental retardation
1) Can’t suck, difficult to feed
Sucking is a baby’s birth If the baby does not suck milk in the infant period, then it is likely to be a manifestation of mental retardation. Such a baby will not only not suck, but will also spit up milk during feeding.
After adding supplementary food, the baby will not swallow, and will often drool and have difficulty chewing. Such babies are mostly injured in the brain's nervous system, which has a great impact on the future intellectual development.
2) Will not laugh
As the saying goes: The earlier the baby laughs, the smarter it seems to be an old saying, but this statement is not completely unfounded. Under normal circumstances, newborn babies will laugh at about 2 months, and laugh at 3 or 4 months. Laughing late and laughing less is likely a sign of slow mental development.
3) Reflection arc length
Under normal circumstances, the baby will respond to external stimuli and will respond accordingly, such as crying. However, if the reaction from being stimulated to crying is very long, and the baby needs to be stimulated repeatedly before crying, such a baby is likely to be unresponsive and slow in intellectual development.
This reaction also shows that the baby's attention is not concentrated, or the concentration time is very short. Such babies are lower in thinking, analysis, and memory than their peers.
4) Poor exercise ability
The baby’s physical development is regular, and at what time learns to turn over, sit, climb, stand, and walk, they all develop in sequence. However, if the child develops these basic motor behaviors very slowly, and even learns to walk when they are 3 or 4 years old, then the baby must have low intellectual development.
If the baby’s mental retardation is low, can it be cured?
Generally speaking, the baby's mental retardation is caused by some factors such as genetic factors, nutritional factors, childbirth factors and disease factors. If children with mild mental retardation are found early, and in the early stages of brain development, generally before the age of 3, early training can maximize the development of the baby’s intelligence.
Even if handled properly, it can catch up with the level of normal children's brain development.
Message from the budding mother:
Whether the baby’s intellectual development is normal can be found in the infant period. Early diagnosis and early treatment can be very useful. To a large extent heal or normalize.
