Eye gaze is one of the first achievements that a baby achieves, and it is especially exciting for his mother and father, as it allows them to know that their baby finally sees them. The mother may notice the infant’s look up most of the time, what are the reasons for that? Find out the answer in this article.
What are the reasons for the infant’s view of the top?
In order for us to answer you about the reasons why the infant looks up, first learn about the development of the nature of infants’ eyesight after birth:
- Within seven hours after birth, babies are noticeably interested in their mother’s face, even if their vision is still blurry and uncolored.
- Between six to ten weeks, the baby begins to aim his eyes more intentionally, by looking directly at the person holding him with his eyes wide.
- At about three months of age, the baby can follow the movements of mom and dad, and anyone who moves close to him.
- At the age of 9-11 months, a baby’s ability to follow an adult’s actual eye is developing, which means they begin to understand that eyes are meant to see.
These developments in the child’s eye gaze refer to more than eye contact, as they include the infant’s neurodevelopment, and his ability to make eye contact correctly, and through this the child demonstrates that he knows what a face is as well, and his brain registers a familiar face, and that he understands that facial expressions can indicate to what a person feels.
Based on the foregoing, we can easily know that infants are born with a completely incomplete sense of sight, and they need effort and time to develop it as well, so the reasons why a baby looks up most often are:
- The child’s intense focus on seeing objects and determining what they are, and whenever the object is far or bright, such as bed toys, lighting in the room’s ceiling, or certain shapes, attract the child’s attention and invite him to focus more and stare up.
- Babies in the first months are still developing motor skills that do not allow them to turn to one side or look easily to the right or left, while the constant position is to sleep on their back and look up.
- By staring up your child develops vision skills , and recognizes colors and objects as a form of visual training.
However, we advise you to consult your child’s pediatrician always, to follow up on his development and his motor, neurological and sensory skills, month by month.
SIGNS OF STRANGE MOVEMENTS IN INFANTS
If you are a new mother, any movement that your baby will make for the first time will be strange to you, such as the baby looking up. However, these are the indications of strange movements in babies, which in most cases are not strange at all after knowing their causes:
- Constant movement of the feet and hands : Doctors explain this movement in infants, by feeling colic, gas, defecation, heat, or the presence of something that bothers them in their clothes, especially if it is accompanied by crying, irritability and redness in their faces.
- Finger sucking : It is one of the automatic movements that infants make to calm themselves, and they do it since they were fetuses in their mothers’ wombs.
- Rubbing the eyes and moving the head vigorously : This movement may indicate the tiredness of the infant, and his desire to sleep or nap, or for the mother to carry him and pat him.
- Pulling the ear strongly : Some infants make this movement to calm themselves, and others are an expression of hunger or desire to breastfeed, and it is not necessarily a sign of an ear problem.
However, if it is frequent and accompanied by severe crying, you should consult a doctor.
In conclusion, my dear, do not pay attention to the belief that one of the reasons why a baby looks at the top of his autism is incorrect.
A child’s autism is determined by several features after a specialized examination and the opinion of the pediatrician, and not based on the direction of your child’s vision.
