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There is absolutely no hitch in the thought that a healthy pregnancy is directly proportional to a healthy baby. An early and regular prenatal care can fetch you a life time award of a healthy child. Moreover, following a healthy and safe diet, avoiding exposure to radiations, controlling existing conditions like blood pressure and diabetes, avoiding tobacco or any other drug use, and avoiding drinking — can help in reducing the complications during pregnancy and reduce the infant’s risk for complications too.
As the name suggests, newborns having greater chance of complication due to unwanted conditions arising either during foetal development or during labour and birth may be tagged under high risk newborns. The common risks include preterm babies — especially with low birth weight (mostly in case of multiple pregnancies) — and babies with medical conditions such as heart problem, infections or birth defects. The various factors that may result in a high risk pregnancy include:
Is your child achieving their milestones on time? If not, there could possibly be a developmental delay in your child. Delays can occur in one or more areas — gross motor skills, fine motor skills, social and emotional, and speech & language. Though parents often note a child’s delay in activities as compared to other children of the same age, a developmental specialist is the right person to ensure and judge if the delay is a temporary lag or it requires some intervention — as every child develops at his or her own pace and the range of normal is quite wide.
If your child is unable to sit (by 5–6 months), crawl (by 7–9 months), or walk (by 10–12 months), there could be a developmental delay in his/her gross motor skills. Such children may have stiff arms or legs and a clumsy look.
A child showing delay in thumb-forefinger grasp — such as using fingers to grasp a spoon by the age of 1 year — could be related to fine motor delay. The main cause of motor delays could be improper development of muscles, especially in preterm children, though there could be other reasons as well.
When a child shows problem interacting with adults or other children, it may be marked as social and emotional delay.
This is one of the common delays found in children. Speech may be referred to as verbal expression by the child, including the formation of words. Delayed speech, or at times regression of speech after having achieved it, is an important feature of autism. However, if the child has achieved his other milestones on time, then delay in speech might not be a reason for worry — a few children are late talkers. Language delays may be linked with expressing and receiving information or understanding gestures.
Parents play a very important role in developing a child’s behaviour throughout their life — and so are other people and factors like siblings, teachers, friends and environment, who may have an effect on a child’s behaviour as they grow. For ensuring that your child is honest, peaceful and happy, parents need to attain this at first place. Gradually every child develops their own traits of anger, temper, fear, jealousy, greed, possessiveness etc., from time to time, to fight back with the world for their own advantage.
Mostly, parents complain of a few common behavioural problems like fears and phobias, cheating, stealing and lying, destructiveness and bullying, and shy and timid nature. All these behavioural problems should be dealt with utmost care by the parents, and if need be a specialist counselling should be sought.
Dyslexia, also known as learning disability, is characterised by a child facing difficulty in reading, spelling and writing despite normal intelligence. This problem may first be noticed at school when the child starts to spell words, read quickly, write & pronounce words. The main cause of this disease could be genetic or environmental. Moreover, it may also occur in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
If your child is inattentive, hyperactive or impulsive, he/she could be a victim of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This is the most common mental disorder of children that may continue to adulthood. Due to easy distractibility and short attention span, such children may have associated language and learning disability. They are unable to sit still and are perpetually moving, fidgeting, squirming and poking their fingers into everything. This may lead to certain behavioural problems as well.
We at Tulip Clinic are expert doctors for hyperactive disorder and ADHD, and help to treat learning disorder & developmental problems in Delhi/NCR.
A group of permanent movement disorders — like poor coordination, stiff or weak muscles, tremors, trouble in swallowing and speaking, poor vision and hearing problem — that occur due to improper brain development or brain damage in foetal life is termed as cerebral palsy. The child is unable to roll over, sit, crawl or walk at the age when other children of the same age are able to achieve these milestones.
The problem mostly develops during pregnancy but may also occur during childbirth or shortly after birth. Since it is caused due to improper brain function, it may also lead to certain developmental delays like gross and fine motor skills or speech and language problems.
Autism is a disorder of neurodevelopment that affects a child’s behaviour, communication and social skills. Such children live in their own world and lack emotional warmth. They have no or only brief eye contact. Their stereotypic behaviour may include rocking, bouncing, head banging, swinging, spinning objects and twisting their hands. Another abnormal activity may include toe-walking, sniffing, licking or smelling objects. They may gabble and have their own language.
Though an autistic child may have associated mental subnormality and epilepsy, it should not be confused with mental retardation.
An early conversation with our paediatric specialists can change everything. Book a consultation at Tulip Clinic — 28+ years of trusted child care in Noida.
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