What Are Infant Reflexes?
Reflexes are automatic involuntary Movements that keeps us to develop and learn. We have seen doctors tap patients on the knee, which reflexively spring up. This is to check the reflex action of the lower leg. In infants, we can observe other reflexes: if you gently rub the centre of baby’s palm, then her finger will curl inward. This is called the Palmer reflex. Make a sudden sound or movement, and a baby will widen its eyes, tilt the head back, and fling out arms and legs. This is the Startle or Moro reflex. Gently use a finger to stroke from the lower back up one side of the spine and the baby will wriggle – the Spinal Galant reflex. Reflexes for Optimal Living Thase and many other reflxes govern various functions: Bodily functions like eating, sucking, swallowing, secreting saliva; Protection like rolling and head lifting; Posture and move ment of the body in space and maintaining balance, etc. These reflexes correspond with developments in the brain and nervous system and grow, ea
