What are the symptoms of mental retardation in a ten-month-old baby?

For some young girls, pregnancy and childbirth itself is a very happy thing, but because they have no experience in this area, problems are always likely to arise in this regard. After waiting so long for the baby to be born, you encounter all kinds of troubles when taking care of the baby, which is really frustrating. So the question is, what are the symptoms if a ten-month-old baby has low intelligence?

Poor responsiveness to the environment

Soon after birth, a normal baby begins to become interested in human faces and brightly colored objects in the environment, and as long as he is awake, he will always look around. However, intellectually retarded babies often sleep too much, are indifferent to the environment when awake, and do not follow or look at sounds or bright objects. Some children cannot make eye contact with adults and do not smile when they are teased until they are 2 months old. He is very quiet all day and rarely cries. Such children are often praised for being too quiet, and their intellectual problems are easily overlooked. Some children have slow responses to senses and are insensitive to stimuli such as pain. They need repeated stimulation to make them cry, and their cries are sharp or weak.

Inattention and hyperactivity

In contrast to children who are too quiet, inattention and hyperactivity are also common characteristics of some intellectually retarded babies. Many intellectually retarded babies cannot stay still for a while and are always active. This is especially evident in children aged 4 to 6 years old. Their attention span is significantly shorter than that of normal babies. They rarely focus on one thing for more than 5 minutes. They cannot concentrate on listening in class and often make small movements. They also pay little attention to what's going on around them. This kind of hyperactivity is different from the liveliness and mischief of normal children. It has no purpose, but is just an uncontrollable excitement. He touches everything he comes across and even knocks over chairs and stools without knowing how to pick them up. Some children have impatient personalities and cannot integrate into the group or play with normal children.

Visual and hearing impairment

If a baby suffers from vision and hearing problems, such as myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, deafness, hearing loss, etc., it will also have a great impact on his intelligence. Because seeing and hearing are the ways for people to communicate and learn with the outside world, children with visual and hearing impairments will have certain obstacles in learning knowledge, which will lead to intellectual development retardation.

Abnormal appearance, posture, or smell

For some children, pediatricians can tell that the child has intellectual disabilities and problems with brain development just by looking at the baby's face. Children with some congenital genetic or metabolic diseases often have special facial features and look different from normal children. For example, babies with Down syndrome (also known as trisomy 21, congenital idiocy) have chromosomal abnormalities (an extra chromosome 21), which are manifested by small palpebral fissures, upturned outer corners of the eyes, collapsed nose bridge, wide distance between eyebrows, small mouth and large tongue, with the tongue often sticking out of the mouth. There are also some children with congenital brain hypoplasia who have abnormal head shape. For example, children with hydrocephalus have particularly large head circumference, and children with microcephaly have particularly small head circumference. Children with hypothyroidism are particularly short, and children with phenylketonuria have abnormally white skin, very light hair, and a rat-like odor in their urine.