What parents with cerebral palsy should do

  A. Adjust your mentality and face it correctly A family, unfortunately, must be very painful when giving birth to a child with cerebral palsy. In the initial stage, many parents will have strong guilt or psychological problems such as disappointment, shame and pity, which will lead to some affected children will lose the critical period of treatment and cause more unfortunate consequences. When the physician diagnoses that the child is at risk for cerebral palsy.  The parents are usually devastated and will have a series of questions: 1) What did I do wrong?  2. Why is this happening to me?  3. Am I hurting the child’s brain because I have a disease?  4.If I don’t get married, this won’t happen?  5.How embarrassing it is to have such a child, what will he/she do in the future?  6.Can’t I just leave him/her alone? But the child needs the love of the mother (father), what can I do?  7. How can I pay for all the rehabilitation costs?  Faced with these difficult or even insurmountable questions, the key is acceptance and adaptation. Parents must consult a specialist to see the problem scientifically. Those who really can’t figure it out can see a psychologist, confide in their emotions and adjust their mindset. If you can’t get over the problem, you can use time to fade it away.  The young parents have to learn to be a mindful person, usually to carefully observe their baby’s growth and development. If you find any abnormalities, go to a children’s hospital in time. If your child is diagnosed with cerebral palsy, motor development disorder (backwardness) or cerebral palsy, please go to a specialized rehabilitation institution for early, systematic, effective and regular rehabilitation treatment. You should not listen to advertisements and rumors and “rush to the doctor”, as this will often cost you a lot of money and delay your child’s precious golden time for rehabilitation, which is not worth the loss.  The rehabilitation of pediatric cerebral palsy is a long-term and systematic work, and many children often need several months or years of rehabilitation, and some even need lifelong rehabilitation. During the whole rehabilitation process, parents will assume a very important role, on the one hand, they have to cooperate with the therapist in the rehabilitation hospital to do a good job in institutional rehabilitation, on the other hand, they have to undertake the rehabilitation nursing work of their children at home. Therefore, it is also important for parents to have a good knowledge of rehabilitation. Parents should not only learn rehabilitation knowledge from rehabilitation physicians and therapists, but also enhance their knowledge through self-learning and other means. It can be said that a responsible parent of a child with cerebral palsy will be a better rehabilitation therapist by the time his or her child has recovered to a certain extent.