What are the symptoms of cerebral palsy in newborns? Some parents usually do not know the symptoms of neonatal cerebral palsy, and then miss the best time to treat cerebral palsy. The neonatal period is when the baby is born within 28 days. Cerebral palsy is usually not obvious during the neonatal period and is not easily detected. However, if the mother and father pay attention to the investigation, some signs can still be detected in the early stage. What are the symptoms of neonatal cerebral palsy? 1. He can gaze at objects when he is awake and follow the direction of movement of objects. 2. The eyes are more active to light, and will close when they encounter strong light. Hearing is excellent, such as whispering in the ear will turn the head to the direction of the sound, and sometimes use the eyes to find the source of sound. 3, the sense of touch is very active, especially the eyes, around the mouth, palms, soles and other parts of the feet, touch that there is a reaction, will present blinking, open mouth, retract the hands and feet and other actions. 4, although the movement is mostly unconscious and uncoordinated, but very mobile, nearly full-term newborns are picked up, the head can maintain an upright position for a very short time, such as the fingers or toys into the palm of the hand will grasp very tightly, not easy to let go. After birth, the newborn has the ability to interact with the environment and adults, and will follow adults to talk or laugh, and will cry to get adults’ attention. What are the symptoms of neonatal cerebral palsy? The child with cerebral palsy has a significant lack of the above behavioral skills, as if he or she has no interest in all the surroundings, poor responsiveness, significantly reduced movement, and even poor sucking ability, often presenting choking on milk. It is also found that some innate reflexes such as food-seeking reflex, holding reflex and hugging reflex are weakened or not present at all. After the above content, we can see that the symptoms of neonatal cerebral palsy, if the child presents the above symptoms, you should take the child to a standard hospital for examination and treatment in time.