Von Armut betroffene Babys zeigen bereits im sechsten Monat Verzögerungen in der motorischen Entwicklung, eine Umkehrung ist jedoch möglich, da die Verzögerungen im achten Monat nicht mehr signifikant waren
https://agencia.fapesp.br/babies-exposed-to-poverty-show-delays-in-motor-development-as-early-as-six-months/57327
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> Poverty can affect babies’ motor development as early as six months of age. This is the conclusion of the first Brazilian study to examine the quantity and quality of motor development month by month and its relationship with socioeconomic vulnerability during the first months of life. The study, conducted by researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in the state of São Paulo, followed 88 babies from three to eight months of age. Fifty of the babies were from families experiencing socioeconomic vulnerability
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> “In addition to these babies reaching motor milestones [such as grabbing objects, rolling over, and sitting up] later than those not exposed to poverty, they showed less diversity in their movements, always repeating the same strategy to pick up a toy, for example,” explains Carolina Fioroni Ribeiro da Silva, a FAPESP scholarship recipient whose study was the subject of her doctoral thesis.
> The study also showed that reversal is possible, as the delays were no longer significant by eight months. This possibility of improvement is attributed to the mothers’ engagement, as they began to follow the guidelines given during the visits at home (no fathers presented themselves as responsible for receiving the researchers).
[Contextual risk factors for atypical motor development in infants exposed to poverty: a longitudinal study – ScienceDirect](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000169182501368X)
Makes sense to me. I found activities that help with motor develoment in babies to be counter intuitive. I dont think I would have come up with them on my own if education wasnt available to me. You just want to keep them snuggled up and safe and warm, but they achieve more when you basically put them on the floor and piss them off by flipping them over or putting neat trash where they can’t quite reach it.
“(no fathers presented themselves as responsible for receiving the researchers)”
Good to know that, with a bit of education, socioeconomically vulnerable mothers can pick up the slack there, too.