Proper Motor Development: Helping Your Baby Learn to Stand Ages 9-11 Months
On-Demand Class · Supporting development
- Language: English
- Sessions: 8
- Duration: 21 minutes
- Child age: 9 M - 11 M
- Price: $10 USD (included with BabySparks Premium)
- 85 people have enrolled in this class
In this class, physical therapist Hanna teaches you how to help your baby stand up with support, including how to help them find and regain balance when their center of gravity shifts.
Class Description
In this multi-session class, you will learn 4 simple, fun activities that help your baby learn to stand up with support, including how to nurture the "equilibrium response" - when a baby is able to regain balance after their center of gravity shifts. Hanna teaches you each activity, followed by a deep dive into why the skill is so important. These activities are easy to do while you are playing with your baby at home!
Class Materials
A sofa, mattress, toys.
Sessions Overview
- Balance reaction – up against gravity: Learn a simple "anti-gravity" activity that helps develop your baby's equilibrium (balance) response, followed by a short lesson on why this is important. To practice the activity, go directly to session 2.
- Activity: Balance reaction – up against gravity: Practice Balance Reaction
- Standing is just wonderful: Learn how to help your baby bear weight on their feet for the first time, followed by a short lesson on why this is important. To practice the activity, go directly to session 4.
- Activity: Standing is just wonderful: Practice Standing
- Standing hands and feet – "Bear Standing": Learn how to teach your baby "Bear Standing", and why it's so powerful! This position strengthens many muscles, including the back, abdominals, hands, legs, and muscles around the pelvis - and also develops balance. To practice the activity, go directly to session 6.
- Practice "Bear Standing": Practice Bear Standing
- Helping your baby stand up with support: Learn how to help your baby stand up with support, and why this is important. To practice the activity, go directly to session 8.
- Activity: How to activate the baby to stand up with support: Practice helping your baby stand up with support
Your Instructor
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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