Some children often shake their heads, or even hit their heads, and sometimes sway their bodies, which is normal, as is the child’s tendency to hold him up and jump around. This is the child’s vestibular system development needs to seek stimulation, the vestibule is to maintain the balance of the organ, most infants will have a vestibular “self-stimulation” stage, will make the up and down to jump, shaking their heads and shaking the body movements. Most infants have a vestibular “self-stimulation” phase where they jump up and down, bob their heads, and shake their bodies. 3%-15% of infants will also hit their heads against other objects. Vestibular self-stimulation usually begins when infants are 6 to 8 months old, when vestibular sensitivity is at its peak. This behavior can disappear in a short period of time or can persist for a longer period of time, with most disappearing at 1 to 1.5 years of age. Intellectual development is cumulative, and the vestibular system is one of the earliest senses to develop, accounting for many parts of an infant’s early sensory experiences, which may be critical in unifying other sensory and motor aspects, and so also influence higher levels of emotional development and cognitive abilities. Babies may show a preference for head shaking at different stages of development. Some moms are nervous and anxious while others don’t take it seriously at all. Is it normal for babies to keep shaking their heads and should moms be worried? 2 kinds of situations baby shaking head parents should be careful 1, baby calcium deficiency If the baby has calcium deficiency, some will also be manifested as shaking head. Because the baby lack of calcium, it will be manifested as sweating, especially after sleeping head sweat, so that its skull constantly rubbing the pillow, that is, we see the baby shaking head phenomenon. This phenomenon if it lasts a long time will also lead to the baby back of the head hair becomes less, is what we usually call “pillow baldness”. Reminder: infants and young children with calcium deficiency in the early stages, the baby is easily frightened, often sweating, sleep is not stable, poor mental state, crying at night; in the physical characteristics of the delayed teething, occipital baldness, chicken chest, bracelets, lower limb deformities, “O” shaped legs or “X” shaped leg etc. If the baby often shaking his head, mothers should pay attention to observe the baby with or without these symptoms, if so it is best to go to the hospital to do the relevant examination, and pay attention to the child to supplement calcium. 2, baby eczema If the baby in the case of checking the brain development are normal, or shaking head frequently, crying during sleep, this may be due to skin diseases. Eczema is also one of the causes of baby head shaking. Babies with eczema will not scratch with their own hands, so they can only rub the itch by shaking their heads. Eczema is a skin disease caused by a perverse reaction. With eczema, there will be skin flaking, redness, blisters, vesicles, scabs and other symptoms, and the range can spread to the inner ear canal, outer ear and skin behind the ear. Reminder: If your baby has eczema, you should not allow your baby to scratch the skin at the eczema site with your hands, as this can cause a bacterial infection of the skin. In addition, you can not use soap and hot water to wash the affected skin. Because soap and hot water will wash away the oil on the surface of the skin, making the skin more dry. The phenomenon of head shaking is broadly divided into the following cases: 1, the nervous system is not well developed neonatal period baby will often appear tremors, exertion to make the small face red, head shaking around, this is due to the baby’s nervous system is not well developed, nerve myelination is not complete, its excitement is easy to spread, with the baby’s age of the month, the nervous system of the day to day improvement will slowly disappear, but if the baby has a high fever, it may be Occurrence of convulsions during febrile convulsions, at this time the shaking of the head must immediately go to the hospital. 2, indoor temperature is too high baby sleep constantly shaking his head, may be too high indoor temperature, or quilt cover too much, the baby is too hot and itchy and shaking his head. In this case, we should pay attention to the baby sleeping environment temperature should be appropriate, not too hot. 3, eczema eczema very special performance, is a clear itch, the baby often scratch. If the baby will not scratch with his hands, he will use his head to rub the itch. Therefore, timely treatment of eczema. 4, whether calcium deficiency If the baby has a calcium deficiency, some will also be manifested as head shaking, we should pay attention to observe whether the baby has excessive sweating, night cries, sleep disturbance, occipital baldness, etc., if there is it is best to go to the hospital to do a checkup, to rule out the possibility of calcium deficiency. 5, the expression of demand 4-6 months this stage to add complementary foods to the baby, the baby does not accept the new food, there will be resistance to shaking the head, hand push away that do not eat. In addition, to seven or eight months, the baby’s ability to imitate is very strong, sometimes adults teach the baby “do not” will be expressed with a shake of the head, the baby has just learned this action will be very happy to repeat the imitation. Other babies like to shake their heads to show their feelings about the rhythm of music. If the head shaking is simple and the baby’s mental condition is good, there is no need to worry if there is no other abnormality. As the baby’s age grows, the baby’s sense of independence is getting stronger and stronger, the baby’s language understanding is getting better and better, but the language expression can not fully keep up with the expression of their own happiness and sadness, will also use the head shake to indicate. 6, the expression of emotions about 6 to 10 months of infants will appear rhythmic swaying body (20%), head banging or head shaking (6%), or rhythmically knocking or even knocking themselves, the rhythm can make them feel happy or alleviate the unpleasant emotions, most of the babies in the emergence of these phenomena when the spirit is clear, the expression appears to be self-congratulatory. These phenomena are also developmental, related to neurological development, and are self-soothing behaviors that are usually normal. As the child grows older, these phenomena gradually disappear. 7, immature development of the balance system 4-6 months baby likes to shake his head there is another situation is the baby vestibular function of self-exercise. Just need to provide a safe environment for the baby to practice. For example, let the baby play swivel chair, swing, lying on a large fitness ball back and forth, left and right rotation, can help the baby to promote bilateral inner ear development maturity and balance. Baby’s different stages of growth will appear baby shaking head phenomenon, as parents must treat this phenomenon differently, neither blindly careless, nor grass, to seriously analyze the causes of the baby shaking head, if it is caused by disease, it should be timely medical treatment.