What is the cause of the baby's startle?

The arrival of a baby often brings a lot of happiness and joy to many families. However, for many inexperienced families, taking care of the baby is a very troublesome thing. In particular, many people will find that the baby sometimes has symptoms such as startle, which makes parents particularly worried about whether the baby is frightened, resulting in the whole family members speaking and walking very cautiously. Let's understand why babies startle.

What is the cause of the baby's startle?

When the baby is asleep, the slightest movement will startle his body, and sometimes he will open his eyes, stretch his arms and legs outward, and then cross his arms in front of his chest, and when the arms are released, he will cry. These phenomena are called startles.

It is a normal physiological phenomenon for a newborn baby to startle. This is a form of self-protection for the baby against external intrusions.

This phenomenon occurs mainly because the baby's nervous system is not fully developed, the central nervous cells are highly excitable and easily excited by stimulation. This is because the insulating tissue surrounding the nerve fibers, the myelin sheath, has not yet formed. Therefore, after being stimulated by sound, babies cannot centrally locate the stimulus in the cerebral cortex like adults, and often transmit the stimulus to the nerve fibers of the limb muscles, causing movement and shaking of the arms and legs.

What to do if your baby starts to jump

It is normal for babies to startle, so mothers should never blindly supplement calcium for their babies, and should not be superstitious that babies may be frightened by seeing things they shouldn’t see. When the baby starts, the mother can calm the baby down by gently pressing any part of the baby's body with her hand.

The excitatory focus of a newborn baby's brain is more active, so startle may occur. As the baby's nervous system continues to improve, this situation will improve. Under normal circumstances, this situation will gradually improve and disappear when the baby is about 3 or 4 months old.

If your baby still frequently startsle or shakes his limbs after 5 months, you need to go to the hospital to check his nervous system.

The above is an introduction to why babies startle frequently. After understanding it, we know that the general cause of this phenomenon is due to the incomplete development of the baby's nervous system, so parents must rest assured. In addition, in order to reduce the phenomenon of children being startled frequently, you can play some soothing music in the room where the child is. Mothers should also not wrap the baby in a candle bag in the traditional way, as this is particularly detrimental to the baby's bone development.