Proper motor development Beginning to move 5 to 6 months

On-Demand Class · Supporting development

Learn activities involving different motor skills that promote new milestones.

Class Description

With these four sessions, you will get practical and proven ideas for practicing and gaining the confidence to helping your baby achieve milestones. Once your baby can roll freely from back to tummy and tummy to back, move in many different directions, and push themselves backward, they are more interested in their surroundings and ready to play independently. When your baby can hold their feet with their hands, they begin to lengthen their leg, arm, and forearm muscles; this is necessary for freedom of movement.

Class Materials

Favorite Toy, 5" high. Two to three inches one color ball (not a soft one).

Sessions Overview

  1. Learn another way to encourage the baby to turn from his back to his tummy, 5 months: Learn another activity to encourage your baby to turn from their back to their tummy. Once your baby rolls freely, they will be ready to stay longer on their tummy and play more independently. To practice the activity, go directly to session 2.
  2. Activity: Learning another way to encourage the baby to turn from his back to his tummy, 5 moths: Practice another way to encourage your baby to turn from their back to their tummy.
  3. Encouraging a baby to reach his feet, 5 to 6 months: Learn an activity to encourage your baby to reach their feet. To practice the activity, go directly to session 4.
  4. Activity: Encouraging a baby to reach his feet, 5 to 6 months: Practice encouraging your baby to reach their feet.
  5. Preparing a baby for crawling, 5 to 6 months: Learn how to prepare your baby for crawling To practice the activity, go directly to session 6.
  6. Activity: Preparing a baby for crawling, 5 to 6 months: Practice preparing your baby for crawling.
  7. Encouraging moving around the body axis, 6 months: Learn how to encourage your baby to move in all directions, around their body axis. To practice the activity, go directly to session 8.
  8. Activity: Encouraging moving around the body axis, 6 months: Practice encouraging encouraging your baby to move in all directions, around their body axis.

Your Instructor

Hanna Lewitus

Hanna Lewitus (Bpt, MAph) is a certified neurodevelopment physical therapist specializing in child neurology and motor development for premature newborns, babies, and children. Ms.Lewitus has been the head of the Physical Therapy Department of ALYN Pediatric and Adolescent Rehabilitation Hospital in Jerusalem. Her main focus is to empower parents and provide them with tools to safely guide their babies through motor development, ensuring they align with the normative development. Ms. Lewitus lives with her husband in Haifa, Israel, is mother to 3 children and grandmother to 7, and is an avid photographer and musician.

Degrees and Certifications

BA physical therapy, MAph 15 years leading a hospital physical therapy department Child Neurology Clinic in Hadassa Hospital Jerusalem NICU - Hadassa Hospital Member - national health committee for treatment policy decisions Worked in HMOs as a developmental neurology PT

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