SAY NO TO BABY WALKERS

The seated Baby walkers do not help in developing the baby’s walking. In fact they can delay your baby achieving their developmental milestones. The child might not learn proper balance skills needed for walking. It teaches children to scoot along the floor using their toes. This can have a big impact on balance and on general muscle and joint development. And it is not safety too. Putting a baby in a baby walker is like giving a teenager a Ferrari. A baby in a seated baby walker needs much greater attention and supervision than if they weren’t in one. Research says that 40% of babies who use a seated baby walker end up getting hurt.

In Canada, the sale of baby walkers is banned. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) would like the same to be true in the USA.

Babies will generally walk when they are ready to (usually between 9-19 months). Time in a seated baby walker takes away from activities that produce the real readiness for walking but a traditional stable-push type baby walker (Nadaivandi in Tamil)don’t actually do this. So if you want to buy something when your baby seems to be ready for walking (only when they can stand on their own), you can consider getting the traditional stable-push type baby walker.