A 4-month-old child can sit occasionally, and can sit when both parents’ hands are needed to support the hips. After birth, the child’s occiput, neck, shoulders in the same plane, 4 months when the baby’s normal physiological curvature has not yet formed, parents need to assist. After the baby is born, with the growth of the age of the month, at 2 months of the formation of the cervical spine anterior convexity, at this time the child’s head then can be carried out upright, head up. However, at 4 months of age, the spine is still unstable and the muscles in the lower back are not strong enough to support the body for sitting and standing. If the child is allowed to practice sitting and standing in advance, parents need to practice sitting and standing when holding the hips with both hands, and it is not recommended to sit for a long time, which may cause spinal curvature and deformity and affect the normal development of the child. The baby’s large motor development, need to follow the law of growth and development, generally babies sit alone at 6 months, but 4 months of the child can practice turning over, by turning over to be able to enhance the strength of the muscles of the waist and back, increase the flexibility of the waist and legs.
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