Parents are concerned about how their baby’s intelligence is developing, and parents want to raise a smart baby, so how do you detect abnormal intelligence in your baby as early as possible? Is your baby a high-risk baby? If your baby is a high-risk baby, you must pay attention to it because high-risk babies are at risk of mental retardation. Diseases that can cause brain damage during the fetal and neonatal periods, except for premature infants such as severe neonatal asphyxia, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, infants younger than gestational age, neonatal intracranial hemorrhage, neonatal cerebral infarction, fetal and neonatal central nervous system infections (including bacteria and viruses), neonatal bilirubin encephalopathy, severe hypoglycemia, congenital genetic metabolic disorders and congenital cranio-cerebral malformations are all considered high-risk. These children with brain injury may be at developmental risk for developing mental retardation, cerebral palsy, behavioral problems, visual or hearing impairment, etc. How to detect mental retardation early The main behavioral manifestations of mental retardation in infants and children are: 1. Children with mental retardation sometimes have shrill or screaming cries, and sometimes have weak cries. Normal children’s cries often have a change in pitch. 2. Very late appearance of smiling, not paying attention to others’ speech, and backward development of motor skills. 3. Poorly developed visual function, not paying attention to people and things around them. 4.Lack of response to sound. 5.Late chewing, feeding difficulties, when given solid food, easy to swallowing disorder and vomiting. 6.Normal children often lie in bed eating their hands and looking at their hands at 3-4 months of age. However, children with mental retardation continue to have such behaviors after 6 months of age. Early intervention is important for backward intellectual development When it is found that the baby is mentally backward, parents must not give up and must do early intervention for the baby as early as possible. Because the brain tissue is not mature until the age of 3, it is still in the rapid growth stage. During this period, the brain has high plasticity, high compensatory capacity and strong reorganization ability. If benign stimulation is given at this time, the brain can rebuild the neurologically damaged part or replace the cells that have died with newborn cells, so that the brain can implement reorganization or reconstruction around the damaged part and make the brain function well compensated. Tip: Normal born babies can also suffer from mental retardation due to lack of parenting knowledge, neglect or abuse by parents. Therefore, parents should actively learn about raising their babies so that they can develop better.