At what age does baby turn around?

It is common for parents to seek time landmarks in the psychomotor development of their child.At what age should he turn around?Is it serious if he doesn't do it alone?Why is it so important?Emmanuelle Langlois, psychomotrician working in Rueil-Malmaison, author of the blog “How I Play With My Mome» helps us answer these questions.From the first months, baby learns the movements which will then later allow him to move alone and discover everything around him.However the path to walking is still far away and it will have to make daily efforts to manage to stand first on the belly.First, infants will have to deal with learning to turn back-ventre.If this generally intervenes from 3 months, it is necessary to wait about up to 5 to 6 months to discover that baby is able to count on the muscles of his arms and his neck to turn from the back on his stomach and thus pivot hisguise.

We often focus on the back-ventre turnover, forgetting that the opposite path is just as important, the belly-dos, and in innocently thinking that if he has managed to take a look, he will easily renew the feat."No way.Already at the beginning on the belly he will not be at all comfortable, because his back and his neck are not necessarily muscular, "explains the psychomotorician.Since he pushed his first cry, baby is automatically lying on his back, as the pediatricians recommend.If this position allows the infant not to take the risk of suffocating, it is not the only one in which it must spend its time.For this, he must learn to tone his muscles, stand on his forearms, keep his head stable, but also to arrange his back and that requires real work.These learnings can go through the game and must be encouraged.

Baby development: Dos-Ventre turnaround

But back to the first reversal: the back-ventre.

Naturally, the child will start to turn around 3-4 months and if we should not force things, we can guide him by making him want to explore his environment.A baby does not need a thousand artifices, you can extend it on a large carpet with enough space so that it can evolve freely and develop its motor skills.Ideally, a baby of 3 to 4 months should stay on their stomachs about 60 to 90 minutes each day, in order to develop motor skills and tame this new position.The latter thus gives him the possibility of exploring new sensations.He will also learn to maintain his head by pushing on the muscles of his neck, his shoulders, his arms and his back.In order for him to familiarize himself with this position, it is recommended to allow him to discover different textures for his supports.Put it on the parquet floor, on a duvet, on a sheet or on a soft fabric will give it the possibility of developing its curiosity and discovering its environment.Leaving your baby in your park may not encourage them to turn around.The floors of these carpets are often soft and do not allow the baby to have sufficient support.

One of the techniques to encourage the infant to force on his muscles to turn around is to draw his attention thanks to various objects.This method will allow him to practice more easily.We place toys adapted to his age on the side of his body, downwards and a little removed from him.The baby will see him (he sees clear up to 20 or 30 centimeters at that age but is not blind either).He will try to touch and first will look: "His gaze will go in this direction and it is he who will take the rest of his body and lead to a movement.»Gradually, the infant will seek to catch toys and manage to develop the muscles of his arms and his torso.Another method to achieve this is to place several objects on one of the sides where he manages most easily to ride.This will allow him to change position more naturally and repeat the experience until they become physically more independent.Dad and mom can also stay on the baby's sides rather than above him, to encourage him to perform rotations with his head.

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Some children are more attracted to noise so you can put a sound toy, others are already very focused on vision.What is certain is that stimulation is very important for its desire to reach the mysterious object leads to the rest.“Everything is linked in his body, as the parties are not yet really dissociated, it will lead to his shoulders which will roll on the side and it will also gently bring the basin which will also roll."When baby succeeds in a feat, parents are strongly advised to encourage him with big smiles, hugs or even applause, to make him understand that he has just taken a crucial step in his development.

Training baby with a belly-dos

As said above, once the baby on his stomach is not going to automatically turn around on the back.This is a step that arrives a little later.This is mainly due to his lack of muscle tone in this period of the first movements and this one does, that at least at least, he is not necessarily at the height of comfort in this position: “When we see that heis no longer comfortable, from ourselves we put it back on the back so that this reversal becomes automatic and mastered by the child.»If we should not leave it hours on your stomach, you have to renew small periods in this position:“ By dint of playing on the belly, he will learn to use his arms to get up, to look a little andThen his muscles will build up naturally.»And who says bodybuilding says ability to do the belly-dos reversal alone.

Each baby evolves at their own pace.Some bits of cabbage take longer than others to turn around, especially premature babies who generally do not develop as fast as others.Other infants learn to sit down, get around on all fours or walking before you know how to turn around properly.Babies of 8 to 9 months are not uncommon not to be able to make reversals.So we should not worry, there is no standard for psychomotor acquisitions.It is better to give his baby time to reproduce the movements necessary for the reversal so that he can be able to pivot by himself many other times.

A capital step for the future

As we can see with the logic of the back and stomach back, all the baby's progress is linked.It is because he passed this step that he can access the next;It is because he succeeded and was sufficiently on his stomach that he has muscular and that therefore the belly dos becomes possible.

On a larger scale in its development, the reversal is the stage which will then allow it to crawl, to make four legs, to sit then finally to walk.

The borrowed rolls are also very important as well as often underestimated.So it is good if the baby masters fully and frequently uses the back-abdeed-Dos back: “The more the child will experience all these windings to return to the back, the more it will be useful and the rest of the steps will be much morenatural.»

Let him do by himself

The psychomotrician insists that the children must be left to make their efforts by themselves.In a way, they should not chew their work or do it for them saying that they will go faster.Each of these stages is important and the child must exceed it at his own pace, it is especially very important for the sitting position, which we will approach in a future article.Each child is different and evolves according to their own tempo.

That said, Emmanuelle Langlois does not seek to panic or worry parents: if these stages freely exceeded by children allow better preparation for the following, it is not tragic or criminal to help them, simply the child from everythingsmall gain of insurance, strength and technique, if it does it alone by itself.

So many things that will allow him to successfully cross the many stages he will know afterwards.