Babies are all born with a set of in-ate reflexes that are necessary for their survival. Activebabiessmartkids.com.au state “Babies are all born with a specific set of primitive reflexes. These reflexes are vital to the survival of newborn babies but, also and significantly, primitive relflexes are responsible for getting babies moving and are of major importance to your babies brian development, the development of their balance, muscle tone, head control, vision and even the development of how well they use their head and feet”. Prime examples of primitive reflexes are rooting, the babies natural instinct to look for a nipple and make a sucking motion. This action is imperative for the baby to successful breastfeed or bottle feed and therefore
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The baby will usually take the action of flinging out their arms and crying. Some reasons why babies display the moro refex are because of auditory changes, such as loud noises suddenly occurring, visual, like a quick change from dark to light from opening the curtain, touch, such as somebody suddenly stroking the baby’s head or movement, like placing a baby in a cot. The palmer reflex or sometimes known as the grasping reflex is another primitive reflex reflected when a baby tightens their grasp around an object or somebodies finger when placed in their hand. The palmer reflex starts to develop at 11 weeks from conception in the womb and is seen up to 2 – 4 months. This reflex develops into reaching out at an object while simultaneously closing a finger at the same time at 4 months and by 6 to 7 months the baby can reach out at a toy and grasp at it. This in-ate action develops from the palmer reflex to the pincer reflex which is essential to fine motor details. Another reflex seen in babies is the walking/stepping reflex which babies demonstrate when they are held upright or their feet are placed on a flat surface they will make a walking …show more content…
One example of a predictable sequences is called the cephalocaudal Development, meaning the babies development first in the brain and head, and gradually moves downwards. For example, a baby will first have control over there head and be able to lift it up. Development then moves downwards towards their arms and hands, where they begin to be able to control the movements of their arms and make controlled grasping actions with their hands and pick up objects. Finally, development works its way down to the legs and feet where a baby will first learn to crawl, then walk. Proximodistal development is the development of physical skills from the centre outwards. It is described by www.alleydog.com as “The general tendancy for the development of motor skills to start at the centre of an organism and radiate outwards from there. The middle is the first to development and movement extends outwards from there”. This is an excellence example of the palmer reflex that I described earlier. At first a baby will only be able to grasp a finger when placed in their hand. As they develop, if a baby wants something they will wave their arms uncontrolled as an expression that they want something, then start to reach out using a controlled action and grasp, an object when the start to display the finer controlled pincher reflex in their fingers. The development moves from the arms
The baby will usually take the action of flinging out their arms and crying. Some reasons why babies display the moro refex are because of auditory changes, such as loud noises suddenly occurring, visual, like a quick change from dark to light from opening the curtain, touch, such as somebody suddenly stroking the baby’s head or movement, like placing a baby in a cot. The palmer reflex or sometimes known as the grasping reflex is another primitive reflex reflected when a baby tightens their grasp around an object or somebodies finger when placed in their hand. The palmer reflex starts to develop at 11 weeks from conception in the womb and is seen up to 2 – 4 months. This reflex develops into reaching out at an object while simultaneously closing a finger at the same time at 4 months and by 6 to 7 months the baby can reach out at a toy and grasp at it. This in-ate action develops from the palmer reflex to the pincer reflex which is essential to fine motor details. Another reflex seen in babies is the walking/stepping reflex which babies demonstrate when they are held upright or their feet are placed on a flat surface they will make a walking …show more content…
One example of a predictable sequences is called the cephalocaudal Development, meaning the babies development first in the brain and head, and gradually moves downwards. For example, a baby will first have control over there head and be able to lift it up. Development then moves downwards towards their arms and hands, where they begin to be able to control the movements of their arms and make controlled grasping actions with their hands and pick up objects. Finally, development works its way down to the legs and feet where a baby will first learn to crawl, then walk. Proximodistal development is the development of physical skills from the centre outwards. It is described by www.alleydog.com as “The general tendancy for the development of motor skills to start at the centre of an organism and radiate outwards from there. The middle is the first to development and movement extends outwards from there”. This is an excellence example of the palmer reflex that I described earlier. At first a baby will only be able to grasp a finger when placed in their hand. As they develop, if a baby wants something they will wave their arms uncontrolled as an expression that they want something, then start to reach out using a controlled action and grasp, an object when the start to display the finer controlled pincher reflex in their fingers. The development moves from the arms