Guest guest Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 Dear All, Can baby wear a helmet and play exersaucer? Can you help answer or share your experience? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 Hi - Yes the exersaucer is just fine. My son was older, he walked and ran in his, swung on the swingset, road amusement park rides, etc. It's all good. Jake-3 (DOCBand Grad 9/08) > > Dear All, > > Can baby wear a helmet and play exersaucer? > Can you help answer or share your experience? > thanks > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2009 Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 Thank all of you who helped answer my question. I forgot to mention that my daughter has torticollis. So I am wondering would an exersaucer make her neck worse, especially when she has her helmet on? > > Dear All, > > Can baby wear a helmet and play exersaucer? > Can you help answer or share your experience? > thanks > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2009 Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 We used an exersaucer with my son when he was in his helmet but his favorite was the jumperoo. > > > > Dear All, > > > > Can baby wear a helmet and play exersaucer? > > Can you help answer or share your experience? > > thanks > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2009 Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 I've heard several reasons why Exersaucers/s/Jumpers are bad for babies: - it's bad for the tort because they don't evenly balance their weight and they'll shift to their strong side and use that more than their weaker side. Tort kids already develop muscle strength unevenly in such that the tort side is tighter and usually stronger than the opposite side which is often weak. This is the cause of some tort kids developing a C curve posture or elevating one hip (pelvic tilt) and to some degree raising the shoulder. The exersaucer allows them to avoid developing the trunk muscles evenly by the child not having to maintain its own balance using the trunk muscles. Therefore, the strong muscles get stronger and the weaker muscles remain weak - all that jiggling around while trying to keep the body upright puts a lot of stress on the neck and can exacerbate the tort - it usually forces them to stand on their toes, and this messes up their perception of standing/balancing because when they learn to stand, they are supposed to do so flat footed, not on their toes - What therapists are finding nowadays is that more and more babies are " standing " earlier due to the cycle of back to sleep/ exersaucers/jumper toys, etc. and this promotes *excessive* extension (straightening of body) and doesn't allow normal flexion (bending of body, development of abdominals) to occur in the early months of life (1-4 or so). It's a Catch 22 - you want to keep them off their head to avoid plagio but the devices to keep them off their heads are bad for the torticollis. Even years ago with my oldest son (non-tort baby) I heard that the exersaucers weren't great for their hips - puts too much stress on them. Molly Novato, California Nicolas, 4, tort & plagio, STARband (CIRS Oakland) 4/24/06-9/12/06, Graduate! , 6.5 , 10 Re: exersaucer Thank all of you who helped answer my question. I forgot to mention that my daughter has torticollis. So I am wondering would an exersaucer make her neck worse, especially when she has her helmet on? > > Dear All, > > Can baby wear a helmet and play exersaucer? > Can you help answer or share your experience? > thanks > > > ------------------------------------ For more plagio info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2009 Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 's PT and OT are also very strongly against the use of an exerciser/jumper/walker of any kind due to the same reasons as Molly has explained. It really does suck because those things would keep them off the back of their heads but the down side is the bigger problems they can cause. However, 's PT does allow the bumbo seat which actually helps him to use his core muscles that he has the weakness in. Jessie -8 months-plagio, tort, and CP > > > > Dear All, > > > > Can baby wear a helmet and play exersaucer? > > Can you help answer or share your experience? > > thanks > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > For more plagio info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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