For pregnant mothers, the biggest concern after pregnancy should be the intellectual development of their children. After all, there are still many children with delayed mental development in our country every year. What is even more regrettable is that most of these children are because of their parents. The best treatment period was missed due to negligence.

What is a baby with low intelligence?

Children’s mental retardation, also called

intellectual disability or mental retardation

, is a condition in which the level of intellectual development lags significantly behind that of peers. Mental retardation is more common in children. The causes are caused by various factors such as prenatal factors, intrapartum factors, postpartum factors, as well as genetic factors.

Experts from the Qingdao Mental Retardation Treatment Center said that there are four main categories according to the degree of mental retardation in children:

Mild mental retardation refers to an IQ between 55 and 69:

It is usually revealed after schooling due to performance reasons. Children's basic performance is poor calculation ability, understanding ability, and social ability, but they are just not as good as normal children, and there is still the possibility of education.

Moderate mental retardation has an IQ between 40 and 54:

These children will be slower than normal children in terms of movement, language, and motor development. They can count simple numbers, but have poor social skills. Poor self-care ability, long-term systematic training to be able to engage in general physical labor.

Severe mental retardation has an IQ between 25 and 39:

Their motor development is backward, they basically cannot speak and count, they cannot recognize people clearly, and their self-care ability is almost limited to washing their faces. .

Severe mental retardation and IQ less than 24:

These children may be completely unable to take care of themselves and need the supervision and care of others.

Every year, about 1-2 children in our country are diagnosed with mental retardation.

They are almost no different from normal children at birth, but it is because of this that it is easy for parents to Missing the best treatment period, in fact, children with mental retardation often have these "signs" before they are 2 years old.

Three signs of mental retardation in babies?

1. Inability to suck milk

The innate sucking reflex is a primitive conditioned reflex that exists in everyone at birth. , mothers who give birth naturally can start colostrum 2 hours after delivery to stimulate the baby's sucking reflex.

Since babies communicate in "baby language" and usually eat and sleep, if you want to observe whether there is mental retardation, you need to start by whether they can take the initiative to suck milk.

The earliest manifestation of a baby with mental retardation is that he will not take the initiative to suck milk. Even if it is brought to his mouth, he will not respond, and he will easily vomit milk, not to mention refusing to swallow when eating complementary food in the future.

If the baby still cannot suck normally after being guided by the mother, it is likely to be mental retardation caused by abnormalities in the brain's nervous system.

2. Can’t or rarely cry or laugh

In infancy, their crying and laughing are unconscious instincts. In the first month, they basically They can only cry at first, but they will start to laugh and respond to external stimulation and teasing after 2 months. After 3 months, they will be able to find laughter that represents their own emotions.

But if a child rarely cries since birth, even if it is hungry, peed or sick, it rarely cries, or the cry is extremely small, this is an abnormality;

If after 4 months, the child still rarely smiles, or does not smile at all, and does not respond no matter how much the mother teases him, don’t think that this is “cold”, but it is most likely that he is cold. A sign of delayed brain development, the possibility of mental retardation.

3. Lack of concentration

We can see that basically all sugar babies (children with Down syndrome) have distracted eyes and have difficulty concentrating. , which is caused by low intelligence.

Normal children will laugh when they like it and stare when they hate it. They will concentrate when thinking about cartoons. However, it is difficult for children with low intelligence to have feedback emotions and will not even be stimulated by their mother. He was too considerate and looked unusually "cold", but in fact it could be seen that his eyes were distracted and he couldn't find the focus when he looked at them.

What should parents do?

1. Prenatal check-ups on time

After pregnancy, you will undergo 10-14 prenatal check-ups. In addition to clarifying the development of the fetus, it is more important to check whether the fetus has developmental malformations and Brain problems, such as Down syndrome, the non-invasive DNA can reach 99, which can effectively screen out "Tang babies" with mental retardation. Various prenatal examinations can also check whether the fetus has brain development to a certain extent. Malformations, neurovascular malformations, hydrocephalus and other problems that impair intelligence.

2. Timely treatment

If parents find that their children have the above symptoms of "low intelligence", they can do a cranial MRI and intelligence assessment on their children. Once the results are clear, timely choices are needed. Training and rehabilitation treatment, regular re-evaluation, and scientific adjustment of training plans. Research has proven that timely intervention before the child is 2 years old can achieve good results and strive to restore his or her self-care and learning abilities