The Bad Effects of Using Baby Walker that All Parents Need to Know

TIMESINDONESIA, JAKARTA – Baby walker has become one alternative choiche for parents to help and support their baby to learn to walk. However, there are some bad effects of using it too much, one of them is even make them harder and longer to be able to walk.

Baby walker has been forbidden in some country due to this reason, and surely its no longer recommended anymore. However, there are still some parents out there that keep using it.  

According to Bintang – an Indonesian magazine – baby walker could crazily inhibit babies capabilities to walk by their own. Moreover, it makes the babies become lazy and depend them self upon this baby walker and makes them unable to control their motor nerves by themself.

“Babies walk with their feet hung up and they walk using their tip of toes when they using this baby walker. And its not a proper way to walk,” said Poh Ying Bin, a kinesiology expert from Aileron Wellness Fitness Centre.

Ying Bin also said that using baby walker for along time will also make the bones, joints and muscles won’t be able to grow properly, lower under the ideal line of child growth, which eventually will effect their body posture shape when they grow up later.

Beside all those reason stated above, the main reason why the use of this baby walker is no longer recommended is because there are much more accidents happen when babies walk using this device.

According to a research publised by Pediatric Journal 1990 – 2014 period, there are more than 230.000 children under 15 month years old in America taken to the emergency room from having an accident because of this device.

There are various kind of accident could happen to them, from the minor to the major degree, like the hand stuck in the baby walker or even falling down from it because they want to grab something which is way out of their range.

This number of accidents keep growing and growing eventhough the parents have tried to minimalize the number of accidents by pursuing some static baby walker or the one with brake.

There has been around 2000 children in America in 2014 having an accident from this baby walker. Most of them because their parents thinks that they are save enough by being in the baby walker and then they let them out of their supervision.

Ying Bin said that babies actually just need to learn to walk by holding step by step to some furnitures, like table, sofa or a solid cupboard. A healthy baby doesn’t need a supporting device to help them walk, they just need a chance to explore and develop their ability and their capability to walk. (*)

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