How to judge your baby's intelligence

As a baby grows, his or her various body functions will gradually develop, and intelligence is one of them. If parents adopt the correct approach during the child's growth period and the baby's intelligence develops early, it will be very beneficial for the child's future study and work. If a child's intellectual development is slow, parents should discover it in time and then help the child develop his intelligence in a targeted manner.

Generally speaking, newborns under one month old need about 18 to 20 hours of sleep in a day. You may only be awake for about 3-4 hours a day, which is exactly the state of "sleep after eating". When the baby is 2-3 months old, he needs to sleep 16-18 hours a day; when he is 5-9 months old, he still needs to sleep 15-16 hours; when he is one year old, he needs to sleep about 14-15 hours.

Some parents may say, "My baby is very well behaved. He goes to sleep after eating every day and never makes trouble." Parents need to be cautious in this case. If your baby is in a sleeping state all the time and is difficult to wake up for a long time exceeding a reasonable time, it is best to take the baby to the hospital for a check-up to avoid affecting the child's intellectual development.

2. Dull expression

Some babies with congenital intellectual disabilities have abnormal facial and body appearance. For example, children with congenital idiocy have eyes that are too wide apart, slanted eyes, flat noses, tongues that often hang outside the mouth, and drooling, which is what people often call an "international face." Children with hydrocephalus have particularly large head circumference, while children with microcephaly have particularly small heads.

If the baby's expression is always dull, and he does not smile until he is 100 days old, and his expression is unnatural, and he still cannot smile normally at 6 months old, parents need to take the baby to see a doctor in time.

If the baby suddenly screams loudly, without echo, and the sound starts quickly and ends quickly. Such crying combined with other symptoms such as shaking head, straight eyes, staring, drowsiness, irritability, fever, convulsions, etc. may be caused by cranial brain diseases such as purulent meningitis;

If the baby suddenly stops crying or making noise and becomes overly quiet, this is also an abnormal phenomenon. Because some newborns are too ill to cry, parents need to observe them carefully and go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time if they show any abnormal behavior.

4. The head cannot be held upright

Some babies cannot hold their heads up or have difficulty turning their heads when they are over 100 days old, and one or both eyes continue to look inward or outward. At this time, parents can give their baby some head-lifting training. If there is no effect, they should take the baby to the hospital for examination immediately and ask the doctor the reason so as to discover the problem as early as possible and receive timely treatment.

Some babies learn to chew relatively late, and are prone to swallowing difficulties and vomiting when eating solid food. 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.