Three Ways to Help This Baby

Not all advice on the Internet is what you need to help your child.

 

In this case, the baby should:

 

First:  be taken to the doctor for evaluation of Laryngomalacia. This is a condition in which the valve in the throat is either damaged due to hospital care or overgrown. So, respiratory and swallow responses may tend to keep their neck up high and back.

 

 

Second: This is a common sign of cerebral palsy. Not only are you  trying to attract the child’s gaze, which this person is doing unsuccessfully, but the child should also be recommended for neurology. You have to remember that your child’s health and stability are first.

 

Third: the child’s vision should be checked because if the child doesn’t have good vision, they’re not going to attend to an item, no matter how much you play with it.

 

Now, this person should also have the object higher to start catching the gaze, and then bring the head down. But a baby isn’t going to move on their own when they’re in this position; they’re gonna move where it is necessary for them. And this is where you have to start working with a child’s body, because they don’t know how to do the movement to begin with, you have to show them.

 

This child is at risk for cerebral palsy or other medical concerns in that realm.

 

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