Two-year-old baby always falls when walking

As babies grow up, they will continue to learn and understand many things, and learning to walk is one of the more important steps in their growth. However, it is difficult for many babies to learn to walk. For example, many babies often fall during the process of learning to walk. If things go on like this, the baby's interest and confidence in learning to walk will be greatly reduced. So, what should you do if your two-year-old baby always falls while walking? The detailed analysis will be given below!

1. Factors that affect baby's walking

1. Body muscle firmness and strength

From the moment the baby is born, the baby's muscle firmness will gradually develop with exercises such as massage, passive exercises, prone positions, crawling, etc. Good muscle firmness can make the baby's neck and back strength, upper and lower limb strength, and shoulder strength more sufficient, fully preparing the baby's body to stand upright. Otherwise, insufficient muscle firmness can easily cause the baby to have poor posture, such as hunched back, easy fatigue, lack of endurance, etc.

2. Balance

Babies develop their balance through early rolling over, prone lying and crawling, so that they can adjust their center of gravity to maintain a stable state when they are static or dynamic. After your baby learns to walk, he can adjust his body stability during walking. Otherwise, it is easy to walk unsteadily and fall.

3. Visual Development

Before your baby learns to crawl, he or she will go through a period where he or she will be on his or her hands and knees, rocking back and forth. During this period, babies slowly begin to practice adjusting the focus of their eyes through this back and forth rocking motion, so that their eyes can better adapt to changes in the surrounding scenery during movement. Crawling allows the eyes and body movements to be closely coordinated, allowing the eyes to become more skilled in adjusting focus while moving. Some babies who walk directly without crawling may fall easily due to unclear vision because their eyes cannot adapt to the adjustment of focal length during movement.

2. What should I do if my baby falls while walking?

1. More crawling time

Crawling is one of the very important ways for babies at this stage to exercise their body coordination, which can make the baby's hands and feet movements more coordinated. Moreover, crawling can improve the baby's muscle firmness and develop better vision.

2. Squats and ladder exercises

These exercises can improve leg muscles and strength, making your baby walk more steadily and with more power.

3. Vestibule of the inner ear

Improving the vestibular function of the inner ear helps the baby to strengthen muscle firmness, develop vision and balance, and respond to external things. Rocking, turning in circles and standing upside down that match the baby's inner ear vestibular development level are also simple inner ear vestibular exercises, which should be done 3-5 times a day. However, parents are reminded that vestibular exercises must be performed under the guidance of a professional teacher. Improper exercises may cause discomfort or brain damage to the baby.