Recently, a mother asked Dr. Huang: her baby is about to come out of the full moon, and her small hand has always been held in the thumb. Inadvertently seeing the baby's thumb buckle from the Internet is abnormal, and even affects intellectual development, is this really the case? Since watching this news, I feel very worried.
So what is going on with the baby's thumb buckle?
Why does your baby have his thumb buckled inside?.
From the time the fetus is in the womb during pregnancy, the hands are generally in a natural fist state, to the baby's birth for one or two months to hold their own small hands, thumbs to the palm of the hand buckle, the other 4 fingers covered on it. This is because the muscle strength of your baby's thumb is not strong enough to make your thumb stand upright.
Therefore, from a scientific point of view, newborns before 3 months, most of them will put their thumbs under the remaining four fingers, which is a natural rule. As the baby grows up, around 3 months, mom and dad can find that the baby's small hands are slowly opening up to try to grasp things.
Does the inner buckle of your baby's thumb affect intellectual development?
If the baby's cerebral cortex is damaged, it can lead to some loss of nerve cells. This is mainly because nerve cells control the sensitive movement of the child's cerebral cortex, which can further lead to the phenomenon of the child's thumb buckle.
If the baby's thumb still can't open naturally around 4 months, then parents need to pay attention to observing and training the baby. If the baby is still in the 5th and 6th months, if the thumb is still buckled and the head is still unstable, the eyeballs cannot follow the movement of the object and rotate, it may be a signal of the baby's nervous system damage, need to be taken to the hospital for examination, if it is necessary to intervene as soon as possible, so as not to affect the baby's future hand fine movements, movements, cognition, etc. may have an impact.
Parents often find that the baby's little abnormality will be more anxious, if you find the baby's thumb buckle, how to correct it?
Exercise finger strength
Usually, parents should help the baby exercise hand strength more, and also let the baby hold more toys. For example, banana-thick toys or rubber rods, etc., are placed in the palm of the hand, so that the baby can hold the toy with his thumb and other fingers, which can not only exercise the grasping function of the thumb, but also prevent adduction.
Massage the thumb
Parents hold the child's wrist with one hand, the other hand from the baby's palm to the five fingers slowly and gently extend the finger, the adductor thumb to the direction of extension to do massage, massage the palm of the big fish muscle, each time after doing the massage, fix the baby's thumb, maintain the stretch state for 30 seconds, repeated massage for 2-3 minutes, several times a day, after a period of time, the baby's thumb buckle phenomenon can be alleviated.
Fix your thumb
This correction method is suitable for babies who have not had the effect of a stretch massage. Parents should first straighten their child's thumb, and then gently wrap a soft handkerchief or gauze towel around your baby's thumb and tie a knot on the inside of your thumb. Pay attention to the time of tying must not be too tight, and the binding time can not be too long.
Reminder: Mothers with premature babies at home can not be in a hurry and then observe. Because the baby was born prematurely one month in advance, the baby's monthly age can refer to the corrected monthly age of preterm birth, in fact, the development indicators of her three-month-old baby should be based on the two-month-old baby as a reference.