Sedentation, sitting autonomously, is something that every baby does sooner or later, mostly between four and seven months. As in the process of walking or speaking, everyone has their own rhythm, but one study suggests that Sitting the baby helps you learn.
Encouraging him to sit without support makes the child reach, manipulate objects and explore the environment, which contributes to improving cognitive development, that is, skills such as thinking, perception and memory.
The question is whether we have to let the sitting process go by itself or if we should teach the child to sit.
After six months, babies have the opportunity to see and touch objects and use patterns to differentiate them. Not having to be focused on maintaining balance allows them to be more aware of exploring their surroundings. It allows them to reach, grab and manipulate objects.
A delay in the ability to sit alone can cause them to lose the opportunity to develop these cognitive skills, but each child is a world and there are those who at 8 months still cannot sit by themselves without any support. Sedestation will be one more step towards standing and later, the march.
It is true that as parents we can stimulate the child so that this process is more rapid, such as placing the baby face down on the floor since he is small, on a carpet or a blanket of activities, so that the muscles develop of the back.
However, it is not something you have to force, because it can cause spinal problems if the baby is not ready to sit.
Once you start sitting with supports, you can help perfect the sitting and maintain balance, but always keeping us close. We can put toys that motivate him in front of him so that he leans slightly forward and tries to pick them up and then return to the starting position.
Via | Science Daily Photo | mikecogh on Flickr In Babies and more | How delays in the psychomotor development of children are detected (V): 6 to 9 months
