Proactive Infant Developmental Care

Why are we waiting for babies to be delayed before starting interventions ?

The ideal time to initiate proactive infant developmental care is within 4 months of life!

Did you know?

Your baby’s brain grows 1% every day reaching double its size by 1st Birthday
This early brain wiring sets the foundation for overall motor, emotional, and cognitive learning
Infant primary reflexes (automatic survival responses) build these early brain connections
Improper primary reflexes can be identified at birth

Must read article for any parent of a current or former NICU baby!

Recognizing the Potential Effect of Stress and Trauma on Premature Infants in the NICU: How are Outcomes Affected?

https://www.nature.com/artic les/7211010

“We have known for many years the importance of, and how the brain responds in acute stress. Just in the last decade, however, researchers have found that chronic stress or trauma (especially when it occurs while the brain is developing) can have detrimental results both psychologically and biologically.(13) As the brain is developing structurally and mapping its neuropathways, these pathways are frequently compelled to take abnormal directions in order to deal with constant stress and/or trauma (such as those in the NICU and/or after discharge), which in turn can cause brain function to become abnormally integrated.” What should be done? “If caregivers do accept and address the possibility that exposure to extreme stress and/or trauma may have a direct relationship to the outcome of premature infants, what can be done to help? Three areas come to mind as a means of intervention: recognition, prevention, and support.”

This is the exact reason why primary reflex integration (MNRI) intervention is so critical in the NICU and then after for proper brain development!

https://www.nature.com/articles/7211010

Cranial distortions (plagiocephaly, brachiocephaly)
Torticolis (one sided neck tightness)
Spinal deformities (scoliosis, kyphosis)
Foot alignment/deformities (pronated feet)
Missed or delayed motor milestones

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