Nine (Baby) Steps On How To Give Your Child The Absolute Best Start In Life -Baby Step #3
In the previous two posts on “Nine (Baby) Steps On How To Give Your Child The Absolute Best Start In Life”, we talked about building functions by keeping her horizontal until she’s ready to go vertical and the importance of tummy time.
After she’s spent time on her tummy, she’ll be up on all fours crawling before you know it! This is yet another really important aspect to building those functions that we’ve touched on already.
Crawling is one of the first stages of development and it continues the process of building strong muscles around the hips and pelvis – not to mention the shoulders and spine – that will be able to support her properly when she comes to stand.
Skip this important stage and the foundations to the rest of her life will be shaky to say the least.
Think of it this way, depending on how active she turns out to be, she can expect to be taking in the region of between 5,000 and 10,000 steps every day… If she lives to the UK life expectancy of 78, she will have taken between 142,350,000 and 284,700,000 in her lifetime…
Put into easier to read words, that’s somewhere between ‘one hundred and forty-two million, three hundred and fifty thousand’ and ‘two hundred and eighty-four million, seven hundred thousand’ steps in an average lifetime!!
It kind of illustrates the importance of properly functioning muscles around the hips, does it not?!
And proper functioning hip musculature all starts with the importance of crawling… And wiggling, shimmying, shaking, reaching up, reaching out, rolling, pouncing, bouncing and any other type of movement you can think of!
As we talked about yesterday, creeping, or dragging along on the belly, usually starts first and can start anytime after about the age of six months. This is a great way to activate musculoskeletal system functions.
To give a helping hand to those functions developing, try scattering her favourite toys around the room, so that they are just beyond her reach. This will encourage creeping, which in turn will build those strong and healthy functions.
And we know that strong and healthy functions mean a far greater chance of living life without chronic back, hip, shoulder or any other type of joint, pain.
Remember, keep those toys just out of reach; toys that are too close wipe out the need to explore and will leave her rooted firmly to the spot.
In tomorrow’s tip, we’ll look at some of the dangers of going vertical before time with devices such as the backpack baby carrier.
After she’s spent time on her tummy, she’ll be up on all fours crawling before you know it! This is yet another really important aspect to building those functions that we’ve touched on already.
Crawling is one of the first stages of development and it continues the process of building strong muscles around the hips and pelvis – not to mention the shoulders and spine – that will be able to support her properly when she comes to stand.
Skip this important stage and the foundations to the rest of her life will be shaky to say the least.
Think of it this way, depending on how active she turns out to be, she can expect to be taking in the region of between 5,000 and 10,000 steps every day… If she lives to the UK life expectancy of 78, she will have taken between 142,350,000 and 284,700,000 in her lifetime…
Put into easier to read words, that’s somewhere between ‘one hundred and forty-two million, three hundred and fifty thousand’ and ‘two hundred and eighty-four million, seven hundred thousand’ steps in an average lifetime!!
It kind of illustrates the importance of properly functioning muscles around the hips, does it not?!
And proper functioning hip musculature all starts with the importance of crawling… And wiggling, shimmying, shaking, reaching up, reaching out, rolling, pouncing, bouncing and any other type of movement you can think of!
As we talked about yesterday, creeping, or dragging along on the belly, usually starts first and can start anytime after about the age of six months. This is a great way to activate musculoskeletal system functions.
To give a helping hand to those functions developing, try scattering her favourite toys around the room, so that they are just beyond her reach. This will encourage creeping, which in turn will build those strong and healthy functions.
And we know that strong and healthy functions mean a far greater chance of living life without chronic back, hip, shoulder or any other type of joint, pain.
Remember, keep those toys just out of reach; toys that are too close wipe out the need to explore and will leave her rooted firmly to the spot.
In tomorrow’s tip, we’ll look at some of the dangers of going vertical before time with devices such as the backpack baby carrier.
Talk to you then.
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