Question

The social smile is a developmental milestone most infants reach when they are one to two months old. Not having a social smile by six months of age is commonly considered an early sign of "autism." The spontaneous smile can occur as early as your baby's first few days of life and should be present by the time they are ten weeks old. Also, laughing is a developmental milestone that many babies reach by the time that they are 14 to 18 weeks old.

Given this information, and knowing that "rolling over" is a developmental milestone that most babies reach by the time that they are about six months old, what are some of the concerns a nurse should have if a baby does not meet this milestone within the developmental milestone time-frame given?

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Answer 1

Parents are looking forwards to when their children reach their developmental milestones such as smiling,rolling over,sitting up taking steps etc.

Parents are discouraged about growth and development of their child by comparing with other child. Most of children begin to walk at the age between 11 to 15 months and many other children still crushing and holding onto things.

Smiling:

Smiling can be develop at the age of 6,7 or eight weeks old.They are two types of smiles for babies that is spontaneous smile and social smile.Spontaneous smile occurs early when their are born and it can be seen at the age of 2 months.Social smile occurs in response to movement that is singing or talking and usually present by tenth week.

Laughing:

It is development milestone that babies reach at the age of 14-18 weeks old.

Rolling over:

It can developed at the age of months first front front to their back and vice versa and it is the major motor milestone.It can also picking up other milestones like sitting and crawling.Spending less time on their stomach and sleep reduce the risk of sudden infants death syndrome.

Sitting up:

It is developmental milestone that babies reaches at the time of 5-7 months old and it is one of motor milestone.Most of the infants sit up without taking any support.

Standing without support:

It can be seen at the age of 6 to 9 months.They cannot usually pull themselves to a standings position on their own until at the age of 8 to 10 months.

Waving bye bye:

It is development milestone that babies reach at the age of 7 to 14 months old.and it is the actually and it is early sign of autism and other developmental disorders.If the child does not make any gestures like waving, pointing at the age of 1 year.This indicate their is delay of developmental milestones.