Be careful of these signs of low IQ in your baby!

With the development of the Internet, manual labor is gradually facing the trend of being eliminated, and mechanical automation is becoming more and more popular. Therefore, the problem of difficulty in finding employment has become more and more serious. It is extremely important to start from an early age for children. Many mothers plan learning tasks for their children from an early age, hoping that their children will not be eliminated by society. So, when trying to teach their babies cognitive and perceptual abilities, many mothers may find some special events, such as children sleeping for a long time, dull expressions, slow movements, poor sucking ability, and slow motor development. In fact, this may be due to insufficient intellectual development of the child. So, how do you judge whether your baby is intellectually underdeveloped? How else can we regulate it? Let’s talk about the issue of baby’s intellectual development being insufficient.

1. Seven signs of insufficient intellectual development in babies

Some babies often behave differently from normal babies from the moment they are born. They sleep longer and have no expression on their faces no matter how much relatives tease them. However, their parents do not know that this is actually a sign of low IQ.

1. Dull expression

Usually, babies with intellectual disabilities will not smile until they are over a hundred days old, and their faces are expressionless and dull. Moreover, they cannot smile naturally even when they are six months old.

2. Long sleep time

Generally speaking, newborns sleep for a long time, and can even sleep for more than 20 hours in a row. This is normal. Compared with the baby's previous sleep situation, if the baby still sleeps for such a long time after 5 months, you should pay attention to it.

3. Poor sucking ability

The earliest symptoms shown by babies with intellectual disabilities are often difficulty in feeding, inability to suck, and being particularly prone to spitting up milk. This indicates damage to the nervous system and will affect their intelligence in the future. After the baby starts eating complementary foods when he is six months old, he will have difficulty chewing and feeding, and solid food will be difficult to swallow and may even cause vomiting.

4. Slow response

This usually manifests as the baby always responding a little late when you talk to him or call his name. If it happens occasionally, it's no big deal, but if it happens frequently, it's recommended that you take your baby to the hospital for a check-up.

5. Language Delay

When the baby is 5 or 6 months old, his language ability begins to develop rapidly, and he will use sounds to express his emotions. He started babbling at around 8 months old and would imitate whatever his mother said. Babies between 1 and 2 years old can already call mom and dad. If the baby cannot speak simple words at the age of 2, or even at the age of 3 or 4, and still speaks intermittently, then the mother should take the baby to check the reason in time.

6. Motor development retardation

If your baby always has "many difficulties" in learning basic movements such as lying down, lifting his head, sitting down, standing and walking, and it takes him three months or more to learn than other babies of the same age, it is a sign of intellectual retardation.

7. Abnormal crying sound

If the baby cannot react immediately when exposed to external stimuli, but instead takes a long time to cry, or needs many stimulations before crying, it is a sign of developmental delay. Moreover, if the crying is high-pitched, weak, or the baby does not like to cry, it is also an abnormal condition.

(II) How to raise a baby with high IQ

0-3 years old is the golden period of human brain development. Within one year after birth, a baby's brain doubles in size, and 74% of its energy intake is used to nourish brain development. Especially from 0 to 1 year old, 700 neurons grow in the brain every second, which is a relatively rapid growth stage in life. So how to improve your baby’s IQ?

1. Basic nutritional supplement

Breastfeeding

Breast milk contains a variety of active substances that promote children's intellectual development. In particular, taurine, which has an important influence on intellectual development, is 10 times higher than in milk. According to a survey, children who grow up with breast milk have an IQ about 3-10 points higher than those who grow up with milk substitutes.

Nutritional supplements

Studies have found that if infants and young children are malnourished during the period when brain cells are growing, it will lead to insufficient brain weight, and their intellectual development will be greatly affected. According to a survey, children who suffer from severe malnutrition in childhood will show poor intelligence when they reach adolescence. About 60% of brain cells are composed of lipids. Therefore, high-quality and sufficient lipids can promote the development of brain cells and the formation of nerve myelin sheaths.

2. External auxiliary processing

Balance and coordination

If a child's comprehensive sense of balance is disordered, then in the future his studies and life will be affected because of inaccurate distance observation and poor sense of direction. It will also affect children's interest in mastering new things due to their poor coordination ability when doing things. Therefore, we should focus on cultivating children's physical coordination and sense of balance from a very young age.

Perception

Perception is a general term for feeling and perception. For example, seeing colors through the eyes is vision, and hearing sounds through the ears is hearing. And organically combining the various attributes of an object into a whole is perception. Children's perception is the channel for them to understand the world and increase their knowledge, so they need to use their senses to contact things so that they can perceive and understand them directly.

Cognitive ability

Cognitive ability refers to the human brain's ability to process, store and retrieve information, that is, people's ability to grasp the composition of things, their relationship with other things, the driving force of development, the direction of development and the basic laws. It is the most important psychological condition for people to successfully complete activities. The abilities to perceive, remember, pay attention, think, and imagine are all considered cognitive abilities.

Language skills

Talking to your baby is very important in the early stages of a child's growth. Children are most sensitive to sounds before they can speak. Studies have shown that after birth, children are more sensitive to their mother's voice than any other sound. The baby's ability to distinguish sounds helps the child's language development, especially the learning of his mother tongue.