What are the hazards of baby walkers?

Walkers have always been loved by many parents, because most parents think it is a good tool to help babies learn to walk, but in fact the hazards of walkers cannot be ignored. Using walkers too early can easily increase accidental injuries and affect the baby's future walking posture.

1. Increased probability of accidental injury

Some parents think that using a walker will prevent bumps and collisions, but in fact, a walker can easily cause the baby to get injured under the eyes of adults. Walkers give babies who are originally not good at moving and unaware of danger the ability to move quickly. The child may quickly enter a dangerous area, such as bumping head-on into you who is holding hot water, which may cause the baby to get scalded. These dangers often catch mothers off guard. If the caregiver is slow to react to the baby's appearance or cannot keep up with the baby's speed in the walker, the baby may easily fall over due to the uneven ground or fall off the steps, causing the baby to get hurt.

In addition, the use of walkers shortens the baby's "crawling" time. Using them too early may reduce the baby's crawling experience, which may easily lead to poor hand-foot coordination, insufficient tactile experience, or easy falls when leaving the walker in the future.

2. Affecting walking posture: walking on tiptoes

Learning to walk is closely related to the maturity of nerve and muscle development and vision development. It is not possible to learn to walk simply by helping the baby stand upright. You should know that walking is a weight-bearing exercise. When the joints and muscles are not yet able to bear weight, starting too early will affect the development of the child's lower limbs. For example, a baby who is only 7 months old sits in a walker. Because the baby is small and the seat cushion is too high, the baby cannot touch the ground completely and can only slide on the toes. After a long time, the baby will develop a tiptoe walking posture with the forefoot touching the ground.

3. The baby's personality becomes strange

Learning to crawl before a baby is one year old plays a vital role in the coordination of movements of various parts of the body. If the baby stays in the walker all day, he will miss the crawling learning period before the age of one and is prone to sensory integration disorder, which manifests as hyperactivity, willfulness, bad temper, difficulty in communicating with others, etc. He will also have difficulty concentrating and skipping lines when reading.