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How many months are babies planted. How and when to sit down the baby. Experience of foreign mothers: three incomprehensible questions

For some time after birth, the child spends exclusively in a horizontal position, the most favorable for its proper development. Around the middle of the first year of life, most babies become more active and strive to explore the world, trying to grab their mother's hands or the crib rails and sit down. Many parents stop these attempts, for fear of harming the health of the crumbs, especially if it is a girl. The question of seating male babies often remains open. How many months can boys be planted so as not to harm their health? Let's try to figure it out.

Stages of spine formation

The spine of a newborn is a straight line. The natural curves characteristic of the posture of an adult are formed in several stages:

  1. At 3-4 months, when the child begins to hold his head in the prone position, cervical lordosis appears - a physiological forward bend of several upper vertebrae.
  2. By six months, as a result of gaining the ability to sit, thoracic kyphosis is formed: the middle part of the spine gradually arches back under the influence of gravity.
  3. At about 9-10 months, when the baby learns to stand on its legs and takes its first steps, lumbar lordosis is formed.

However, the age of the baby is not a determining factor for the achievement of certain skills: each organism is unique and can change at its own pace. Therefore, experts do not give an exact answer - how many months can boys sit down. Most orthopedists recommend adherence to generally accepted standards of physical development, adjusted for the characteristics of a particular child, his health, physique and temperament.

Boy ready to sit down

How to determine the physiological readiness of the baby for a new skill? A boy can be safely started to sit down if he:

  • can easily roll over from back to stomach and vice versa;
  • holds head well and lifts upper part chest, lying on the stomach;
  • willingly crawls on all fours, reaching for toys;
  • grabbing the fingers of an adult, he pulls himself up with his handles and tries to sit on his ass on his own.

A healthy and mobile child without being overweight usually makes the first attempts at mastering a new skill by six months. Phlegmatic big boys most often begin to sit a little later - at 7-8 months. You should not be persistent if the baby does not seek to change position or is naughty. In this case, orthopedists recommend encouraging active crawling on all fours for as long as possible to strengthen the muscular corset.

How to properly seat a baby


Having found out when it is possible to seat the boys, let's try to understand the question of how this should be done correctly. The ability to sit, like any other skill, must be formed gradually so that the crumbs' spine has time to get used to the increasing load. During classes with a child, it is prohibited:

  • use artificial support in the form of pillows, folded blankets and other devices;
  • leave the baby in a sitting position for a long time;
  • put the boy in jumpers, walkers or swings;
  • continue sitting down if the baby's back arches back too much when changing positions.

Physical exercises with the baby should be carried out when he is full, alert and in a good mood. You can seat your child in a variety of ways:

  1. On the knees of an adult in a reclining position, placing the baby facing you or leaning his back against his stomach.
  2. Lying on your back on a hard surface (floor, bed, sofa, changing table). To do this, you need the baby to grab the handles of the mother's thumbs. Lightly holding the wrists of the son, you should carefully lift him by the hands and return to his original position.
  3. Some babies prefer to sit on their own from a standing position on all fours, leaning on outstretched arms and moving them along the floor. In this case, it is necessary to lightly hold the baby behind his back so that he does not fall on his side and hit.

The first sit-downs should be regular and short-term: no more than 15-30 seconds in one go. Gradually, the time spent by the crumbs in a new position can be increased. To make it easier for the fragile spine to adapt to the loads, it is recommended to set the back of the stroller, car seat and deck chair in which the baby is located at an angle of 45 °. You can place the boy in any of the devices with a straight back, starting from 8-9 months, when he learns to sit well on his own.

Danger of early sitting down

Most parents want their child to learn to roll over, sit up and walk before the rest. However, do not rush things, as early sitting down can cause serious complications, such as:

  • curvature of the pelvic bones and lower extremities;
  • spinal deformity;
  • diseases of the genitourinary system;
  • squeezing internal organs leading to disruption of their work.

The child begins to sit down on his own when his spine and muscles are ready for this. But some kids are in such a hurry to explore the world that they tend to change their usual posture long before the deadlines set by specialists. From how many months can boys be seated and is it necessary to prevent the development of a new skill?

Most experts agree that the gradual adoption of a vertical body position should be carried out no earlier than 5 months. Forcibly laying the baby on the back or stomach should not be, it is best to distract him with a bright toy or switch attention in any other way. To prevent premature attempts to sit up, you do not need to help the baby and put him away from the sides of the crib or changing table, making it impossible to grab onto them.

What to do if the child does not want to sit down

If the child does not begin to sit down in due time, it is necessary to contact a neurologist and an orthopedist to exclude the presence of possible violations. In the absence of diseases and developmental abnormalities, it is necessary to stimulate the motor activity of the crumbs by any of the following methods:

  • swimming;
  • carrying on hands in a vertical position;
  • crawling on all fours;
  • physical exercises (coups, turns from side to side, “bike”, active swings of arms and legs with the help of an adult).

It should be remembered that premature and weak babies, on average, develop with a delay of 2-3 months compared to babies born on time. In this case, sitting down should be started later, paying attention to the correct development of the muscular corset and strengthening of the spine.

It’s nice when the kid is ahead of his peers in some way, but you still shouldn’t be too zealous and adjust development.

For example, a skill such as sitting is often tried to instill in a child early. Basically, these attempts are inspired by conversations with relatives or acquaintances, stories about the successes of other children who supposedly know how to “sit in pillows” at a very early age. But, firstly, sitting in pillows and on a hard surface is far from the same thing, both the position of the body and the load on the spine are different. Secondly, your child and the neighbor's have different developmental conditions, and you should not compare them.

Why You Shouldn't Teach Your Child To Sit Too Early

Parents are advised not to rush to sit down the child in any case, but some still embark on experiments. These actions are at least irresponsible: the baby's muscular and skeletal system must be properly prepared and strengthened.

It is very important that the baby try to sit down on his own, and not obey the perseverance of the parents. The child's skeleton, not strong enough for such loads, may not withstand them.

Early sitting leads to the formation of spinal articulation disorders - in school age possible problems, the appearance of lordosis, scoliosis.

The most useful thing parents can do is gently, without coercion, prepare the child for the transition to a sitting position. Performing simple exercises helps to strengthen the muscles and prepare for sitting.

1. An adult holds out his hands to the baby, prompting him to grab them. When this happens, the hands should be gently pulled towards you.
2. Carefully perform tilts with the child.
3. Carrying out regular massage sessions.

How many months can a boy be seated

Most pediatricians are of the opinion that for the first time you can sit on a hard surface in different ages. Girls are recommended to be planted no earlier than seven to eight months, but boys can be seated starting from the age of five months. Like all norms, the advice of doctors is rather conditional. Healthy children, whose development occurs without any deviations, can sit down on their own at about six months of age.

But each baby develops according to its own “norms”. When he starts to try to sit down, this is evidence that the spine can cope with such loads.

If the child is not strong enough to sit down, then with any attempts to bend on his own in the belt, he will simply fall on his side.

If he is 5-6 months old, he is already able to keep his back straight for a while. Now you can start it not only in pillows, but also on a flat surface. The duration of sitting will gradually increase, and very soon the child will move on to the next stage of development - crawling.

The issues of development of physical skills in infants are among the most acute for parents, especially the timeliness of the appearance of a particular skill is of particular concern. Very often, mothers of babies begin to sound the alarm due to the fact that their baby does not sit at the age of six months, while the neighbor's child is already quite tolerably coping with this. Is it worth worrying and at what age you can start to sit down small children, we will tell in this material.

When and how does the baby begin to sit?

The question of when a child should start to sit on his own sounds somewhat incorrect, because all children are different, and therefore the development time for each baby is purely individual. However, there are average statistical norms, but they should be treated only as approximate guidelines, and not as the ultimate truth.

It is believed that a healthy baby should begin to sit down at the age of six months, by 7 months he should master sitting with support, and without it, the child should sit freely at the age of 9-10 months.

Confident sitting is usually preceded by a long preparatory stage, which begins from the neonatal period. To sit down, the baby needs to have sufficiently well-developed muscles of the neck, back, arms and abdomen. They will help the spine to withstand a new type of load in the form of the baby's own weight in a sitting position. In addition, the child still needs to learn how to balance.

If you notice that the baby has learned to roll over and does it quite often and actively, then you can be calm - he will sit down soon. Babies begin to sit down in different ways. But for everyone, the first stage is short-term, that is, the child takes a sitting position on the priest, but cannot hold the load, so he falls back on his back or on his side again.

About a month after the start of the first attempts, the child learns to sit with support, and after another month and a half without it. At about 8 months, a child can spend quite a long time sitting, playing, some even try to get on all fours and start crawling.

It can be very difficult for parents to be in standby mode, and they are always trying to intervene in natural processes and help the child to sit up faster.

There is no need to rush the baby, he develops according to his own program, interference in which can harm his physical development and health.

Influencing factors

If nature dictates its own conditions, then why are these conditions different for different children: one child begins to sit up on his own only after 9 months, and the other tries to sit up at five? The point is in the factors of influence that leave their mark on the speed of mastering new skills and abilities.

Let's look at them in more detail.

  • Health status. Babies who appeared on time without a history of birth trauma, hypoxia, ischemia, dysplasia hip joints and congenital diseases, sit down traditionally earlier. Weakened and often ill children in physical development may lag behind their stronger peers. Neurological disorders, even minor ones, also reduce the speed of learning new skills. The strongest of these factors is prematurity. This does not mean that debilitated or premature babies are lagging behind in development, they just need a little more time to adapt to the world around them and to develop their musculoskeletal system.
  • Child's weight. Chubby kids look adorable, but extra weight has never helped anyone to more easily withstand physical exertion. This also applies to babies. Babies with normal weight and lean babies (term babies) usually sit up and start crawling before their chubby peers.
  • Temperament. The fetus's own character traits appear even during pregnancy, and after birth, you can easily determine who is who. Phlegmatic and melancholic children sit down later because of some laziness and slowness inherent in them. But choleric and sanguine people tend to move more and, as a result, master new skills earlier.
  • Environment and motivation. This factor is the only one that depends on the parents, and then only partially. So, a child who is given freedom, not constantly limited by the playpen or the limits of the crib, begins to sit up earlier. If the baby does not have an urgent need and desire to sit down, he will not be in a hurry. Therefore, parents are quite capable of creating such motivation, for example, by hanging a toy so that it can only be reached in a sitting position.
  • Influenced by heredity. If mom and dad in their childhood were also “late” children, then it is at least wrong to count on the Stakhanovist advance of all conceivable and inconceivable terms by their own child.

About sexual characteristics

It is believed that girls develop earlier, that they are less lazy and learn new movements faster. At the same time, it is believed that boys can be implanted earlier, since in girls the reproductive system is designed in such a way that implantation before 7 months can lead to subsequent infertility in adulthood. Both statements are not true.

Bone and muscular system, as well as articular and cartilaginous tissues develop regardless of the gender of a person. Yes, and the question of the slowness of the boys is quite controversial. Medicine has no evidence that girls develop faster. In the period preceding puberty, and during puberty, there really is a difference, but it is due to different sex hormones. Children in the first year of life develop in the same way.

It is not recommended to sit down both boys and girls until six months. Many pediatricians generally do not recommend dropping children off until they sit up on their own.

If the baby does this early - at 5 months, for example, there is no need to interfere with the child. But you can’t force a child to sit if he can’t.

About sitting down

Speaking of sitting down, you need to clearly understand what it is. People mistakenly call sitting down and planting a child between the pillows, and verticalization in the arms of the mother.

It is correct to call sitting down relative verticalization, in which the child's spine is not located at right angles to the pelvis. In other words, holding the baby in your arms vertically, pressing your back against you, is a variant of the correct sitting down. Putting the child in the stroller and lifting the bottom of the stroller about 45 degrees is also correct.

It is not difficult to understand that the baby is “ripe” for sitting down: the little one will begin to spin and puff while lying in a crib or stroller, trying to rise on his elbows. Mom should remember that while the child is not ready to sit, you need to hold it vertically with mandatory support under the ass with the palm of your hand.

If they put the baby on their knees, the adult should not sit straight, but reclining. And then the load on the spine will be significantly reduced.

Unfortunately, mothers do not often go into the nuances of word formation, and by the term “sit down” they mean forced verticalization of the child, landing. Doctors do not recommend doing this at all. On the fragile spine, joints, muscles, a disproportionate load is placed on them. The consequences can be a violation of posture, scoliosis, dislocations, subluxations and fractures of the hip joints, injuries of the pelvic bones (especially dangerous for the reproductive function and general health of girls), deformity of the limbs, incorrect positioning of the feet in the future, the occurrence of compression changes in the vertebrae, intervertebral hernias.

Therefore, it is possible to sit down in the sense of “planting a child” not earlier than he himself learns to sit.

Prohibited actions

To protect the child, many doctors, including the famous doctor Evgeny Komarovsky, recommend that parents leave the child alone. He will sit down when he himself is ready for it, when he himself can.

If desired, you can do gymnastics, including exercises for the development of the back, neck, arms and abdomen. Useful massage and walks, bathing and hardening, the absence of coercion in eating.

Parents should know that it is very dangerous to start verticalization using jumpers or walkers. These devices force the child into a position that is not considered natural for his age, and therefore the vertical load will be very significant. No matter how bright and tempting the jumpers in the children's store are, remember that they are not just harmful, they are potentially hazardous to the health of your child.

If the child began to sit down, at the stage of short-term sitting, he should be protected from shock when falling. It will be necessary for the baby to fall, and therefore it is necessary to cover it with pillows or ottomans, and also to constantly be nearby in order to exclude emergency situations, for example, mechanical asphyxia, which can happen if a fallen baby gets stuck between the pillows.

What to pay attention to

  • The posture of the child when trying to sit down can be any. Some babies lean on the palm of their hand, others on two hands, others on their elbows, and the fourth sit down only after they take a pose on all fours. Do not try to correct the child's way of achieving the goal - he does it in a way that suits him.
  • When the child began to sit, pay attention to his posture. A round back with lowered shoulders indicates that the baby has weak neck and back muscles. If the baby falls back, you need to start strengthening the abdominal muscles, the press. If he falls on his side, it is necessary to strengthen the abdominal muscles and oblique lateral muscles. Parents will come to the aid of exercise complexes for each individual muscle group. It is impossible to allow the child to sit on his knees with an eversion outward. W-shaped landing injures the hip joints.
  • If a child at 9 months does not even try to sit down on his own, be sure to show him to a neurologist, orthopedist and pediatrician.

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How many months can boys be planted? The question that is so actively discussed in the forums does not make much sense. Because motor development and, in particular, the skill of sitting in infants are in no way related to gender. Gross motor skills can be affected by genes, fetal conditions, childbirth, neurological, musculoskeletal disorders, and even temperament. But not gender.

Boys and girls equally need physical activity. Without it, the child will not be able to fully develop either intellectually or mentally. Such a gross motor skill as sitting is not always easy for babies. It happens that the baby first and only then makes attempts. It is important that these attempts take place. Parents need to gently encourage them.

When the skill of sitting is developed

The skill of sitting in a baby boy is associated with his general physical development. If he is good, deft, began to crawl and actively explore the world, then he will learn to sit in time. There are boys who sit down early - at. There are heroes who are in no hurry to take a sitting position and can sit down at 8, or even. All these numbers are within the normal range.

When and how to teach

Boys can be seated with. How to do it right?

If a boy learned to sit early, on his own, without active participation parents - this is not a reason for special pride. It's just that his body has matured for this skill. If the boy is 8-9 months old, and he does not make any attempts to sit down, this should alert the parents. Be sure to consult with a neurologist and an orthopedist to rule out neurological and musculoskeletal disorders.

Experience of foreign mothers: 3 incomprehensible questions

Russian-speaking mothers living abroad are often perplexed by the questions posed on the forums about seating the baby. In Europe, in Canada, in the United States, this topic is not raised or discussed at all. What are these questions?

  1. When to seat girls? When they are ripe for it. Not only mothers, but also pediatricians did not hear anything about the bending of the uterus and the effect on the female reproductive system.
  2. When can a baby boy be planted? A similar question that leads foreign mothers to a dead end. Moreover, in Europe, gender education at the present time is greatly modified. And its principles are not entirely clear to the Russian mentality. But that's a completely different story.
  3. When can babies sit down? When they want. In Europe, it is customary to travel with babies immediately after birth. They spend a lot of time in car seats and specialized child seats. Neither pediatricians nor orthopedists talk about contraindications to early sitting up, about the dangers of vertical load on the spine at such a young age. Maybe because abroad there are no such concepts as "accustom", "teach", "plant", "sit down". There, the children sit down on their own when the time comes - and that's it, no demagoguery around this topic.

These examples once again confirm how strongly parents are influenced by tradition and the mental environment. In the same tradition, professionals - doctors, whom we trust children learn and gain experience. The question is not whether it is good or bad. The question is in the spirit and strength of tradition.

If parents do not know what time boys can be planted, then to some extent they are happy in their ignorance. After all, there is no danger specifically in this case and in this ignorance. Worse, if moms and dads know too much and are at a loss as to what they should do right.

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Very often, mothers ask themselves the question “when can I sit the baby down?”. Naturally, our kids are always curious and they have a great desire to quickly learn everything, not only in a lying state. And as soon as the baby has learned to smile, he quickly moves to a new level - an attempt to sit down.

But did you know that in the first year of life, the child's spine, like the entire skeletal system, is still not enduring, it does not tolerate overloads well. And therefore, orthopedic doctors recommend parents not to give the child a sitting position until he sat down himself.

So, when can the baby sit down?

Of course, doctors have a certain recommended age when the baby can sit - this is six months. But do not forget that each child is individual, has his own individual method of development. Attempts to sit down the baby can be started from four months, but you need to sit down the baby very carefully. Try first to put the baby in your arms when you walk, for example, holding with one hand and supporting it under the ass with the other. After several days of such exercises, you can sit down for one minute in a soft, stable place, supporting the child.

It is important to know how to seat the baby correctly. Here are some tips:

1. No need to put the baby in pillows, because when sitting down, his back bends like a wheel and instead of holding the spine, his muscles relax.

2. Try to start small. Take the child in your hands, with one hand hold the top, under the chest, and with the other hand support him by the ass. And don't stay that long. Gradually, the spine will get used to such exercises and the muscles will develop in this direction.

3. You can hang strong toys on the crib, for example, a toy ring that he can cling to. By six months, the baby should already roll over on his own, due to the fact that he rolls over, he practices his sitting exercise.

In fact, children often start to sit down early, but this does not mean that their spine is ready to hold a vertical position for a long time, so our task is to ensure that they do not stay in this position for a long time. Therefore, dear mothers, there is no need to rush things, you can only help your crumbs without consequences with the help of gymnastics to bring the happy moment when the baby sits down. Finally, we add that in this question the gender of the child is often indicated: (boy or girl), it absolutely does not matter when sitting down.