Recently, I have seen some parents in my clinic who have brought their babies born at full term to see me for fear of developing cerebral palsy because of the so-called high muscle tone. Some babies have already undergone a lot of “treatment” and “rehabilitation” and have suffered a lot, even affecting their normal growth and development. Now let me tell you, can a newborn baby born normally, without brain damage, get cerebral palsy? The incidence of cerebral palsy in newborns born at full term is 1.3%. That means only about 1 in 1000 babies. And the first requirement for diagnosing a baby with cerebral palsy is having a brain injury. If your baby was born at full term, the delivery went well, and your baby has been normal since birth, it is unlikely that he or she has cerebral palsy. The signs of suspected cerebral palsy are head tilting back, airplane hands, toe landing and “hypertonia”. Now, is toe flexion abnormal in a small baby? Toe flexion is medically known as “foot grip” and is a normal foot grip reflex, which is manifested by flexion of the five toes toward the bottom of the foot when the fingers are pressed against the center of the foot. This performance will not disappear until 15 months after birth, which is a normal physiological phenomenon. There is also a phenomenon that before the baby starts to practice standing around 9 months old, some of the feet do not hit the ground, some of the feet are not in the right position, there are foot inversion and foot valgus phenomenon, this is a normal performance, parents do not need to worry about the child will occur cerebral palsy.