As always, parents are often very apprehensive about the motor development of our children, that’s why today we want to answer the question of many parents, that is, since when do babies sit up!
In this article today we will find out together, we will also see what are the factors that influence the learning of this position that will give a whole new perspective to the child experiencing new sensations towards the outside world.
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At what age do newborns learn to sit?
Generally speaking, babies born on time and without complications should learn to sit between 7 and 9 months, although these timings are often influenced by various factors, and it must be kept in mind that each child has his or her own timing and his or her learning does not always reflect the average, this does not mean that the child has problems or on the contrary is better than others.
How to help children learn to sit?
Very often the most apprehensive parents voluntarily or involuntarily force their children to learn to sit, there is nothing more wrong!
This is because children, as mentioned before, have their own timing, and the only way to help them learn to do things like sit is to take care of them without expecting more than necessary.
Having said that, we can encourage the child’s motor development with exercises such as tummy time, which stimulates the development of the neck, shoulder and abdominal muscles, as well as avoiding the risk of plagiocephaly.
Risks of forcing your baby to sit
Forcing your newborn to sit even involuntarily could have serious consequences on their health, such as:
- Slowing of motor development
- Alterations of the spine
- Problems with muscle development
- Nervousness and sadness in the newborn
This is why it is essential that the child is ready to learn to sit. A 4 month old newborn begins to experience new sensations that will lead him in the following months to want to see the world from a different perspective, and this is how from the seventh to the ninth month they will learn to sit.
Benefits of sitting posture in newborns
The sitting posture represents a fundamental step for newborns to learn to walk later, a middle ground between crawling and the upright position that will allow him to take his first steps.
Sitting helps the newborn in various ways, from the sensorial sphere, through which he will be able to perceive the world with a wider field of vision, increasing his social relationships, to the physical one, with an improvement in breathing, motor coordination, balance, up to a better muscular development in the back, neck, shoulders and abdominals.
Newborn does not learn to sit, why?
If your child does not learn to sit around the ninth month, it is best to consult the pediatrician to understand if this “delay” in learning is due to the physiological timing of your child or hides behind neurological problems, such as autism.
Very often the alarm factors about the delay in learning certain actions are associated with:
- The difficulty in distinguishing parents from strangers
- Lack of eye contact
- Difficulty in producing simple syllables
- Difficulty in following with the gaze
- Excessive and unmotivated nervousness
Conclusions
Today we have seen when newborns sit, the risk factors and much more, we conclude by inviting you to let your child learn on his own to perform these basic actions that will one day lead him to take his first steps, and to be alarmed only if there are real suspicions of complications behind them, based on what you read before.
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