In fact, in addition to touching, the baby can also do some health exercises with the help of parents. These little moves are also conducive to the healthy growth of the baby:
● Enhance physiological functions: improve the baby's adaptability to the external environment;
● Promote the baby's sports development: make the baby's movements more sensitive and muscles more developed, and at the same time promote the child's neurological and psychological development;
● Training coordinated movements: it can make the baby's unintentional and disorderly movements gradually develop into purposeful coordinated movements;
● Promote parent-child affection: Physical, language and movement communication between parents and babies can also promote parent-child affection.
Next, I will share with you a set of baby health exercises. Let's have a try tonight!
Before doing exercises for your baby, there are some things to pay attention to:
? Before doing exercise, the baby should urinate, preferably before and after meals 1 hour. Adults should wash their hands and take off their ornaments.
? Cover the baby with a soft towel/blanket.
? Maintain a comfortable room temperature of about 28 degrees.
? Indoor lighting is also important. Use natural light as much as possible.
? Play soft and soothing music.
Preparatory activities:
Preparation posture: Let the baby lie on his back in a natural and relaxed posture.
Warm up the baby before doing it. Adults should massage the baby's limbs, chest and abdomen first and get the baby's permission. Then, you can start doing exercises for your baby.
Babies aged 0-6 months are almost completely passive, so we need to help them move their bodies carefully. Be careful to move gently.
Chest expansion exercise
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The baby is lying on its back. We hold the baby's hand with our hands, put our thumb in the baby's hand and let the baby make a fist.
Help the baby spread his arms horizontally, then put them on his chest and cross them left and right, and then open them.
Shoulder joint movement
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Raise your baby's hands above your head and put them back to your sides.
Flexion and extension elbow joint
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Bend your baby's elbow upward and recover downward.
Leg flexion
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Hold the baby's calf and ankle with both hands, alternately stretch the knee joint, do the action of cycling, stretch the baby's leg to the abdomen, then straighten it, and repeat the action with both legs in turn.
Lower limb extension and lifting
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The baby's legs are straight and flat. We hold the baby's knee with the palm down, lift it up 90 degrees, and slowly put it down to recover.
Flexion and extension ankle joint
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Hold the baby's ankle with one hand and the baby's sole with the other. Place your thumb at the joint of your baby's instep and toe, bend and stretch your ankle upward, and restore it downward.
Alternate extension of limbs
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Hold the baby's arm with one hand, and the opposite leg with the other hand, crossing on the chest, touching hands and feet, and repeating the action alternately.
orbiting
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The baby is lying on its back. Adults hold the baby's hands and feet with both hands, and gently swing from left to right, so that the baby can lie on his back to his side.
sit-up
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Let the baby lie on his back with his arms at his sides. We hold the baby's wrist with both hands, put his thumb in the baby's palm and let the baby make a fist.
Next, pull the baby's arm to our chest, slowly pull the baby forward, not too hard, and let the baby sit up hard.
This exercise can be done when the baby's neck can stand upright, depending on the baby's development level.
Small plane
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Adults sit on their knees and hold the baby's armpits, let the baby lie on our calves, and then gradually lie back; At this point, the angle of the leg remains the same, so that the baby's body slowly rises.
Use the strength of the calf, hold the baby's armpit with both hands, let the baby lie on our calf like a small plane, swing the baby up and down, and exercise the baby's sense of balance.
It's a good idea for mom and baby to exercise together! However, this action is slightly more difficult, so mom and dad need to pay attention to safety!
7- 12 months baby exercises are completed with the appropriate support of adults and some active actions of the baby.
These little moves can move the muscles and joints of the whole body and lay the foundation for the baby to crawl, stand and walk.
Crawling (more than 6 months)
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Let the baby lie prone as a preparatory action. We hold the baby's waist with both hands and encourage the baby to support the body with upper limbs and crawl forward.
Standing on your knees (more than 7 months)
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Let the baby kneel as a preparatory action. We hold the baby's armpit with our hands, guide the baby with toys and help the baby stand up from the kneeling position.
Hold the baby's knees back to the kneeling position and repeat the action many times.
Bend down and pick it up (more than 8 months)
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Let the baby stand with his back to us, holding his knees in one hand and his abdomen in the other, and put a toy in front of him to guide him.
Let the baby bend forward to pick up the toy, and then restore the upright posture. The range of bending is from high to low, from easy to difficult.
Standing practice (10 months or more)
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Keep the baby sitting. We hold the baby's elbow with both hands, pull the baby's arm up and slowly pull the baby up.
The key point of standing up is that mom and dad should not push too hard, and let the baby stand up by himself.
Walking (1 1- 12 months)
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After the baby can stand independently, you can stand behind the baby and hold the baby's armpit or forearm to help the baby step forward and step back.
Special reminder: attention! We can't rush this! Be sure to wait for the baby to stand up alone and wait for the will to come step by step.
Walking at this time can give the baby more self-confidence, but the main balance work is still for the baby to complete independently!