CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -For example, your baby is born with a rooting reflex that prompts him to turn his head toward your hand if you stroke his cheek or mouth. This helps him find the nipple at feeding time. At first, he’ll root from side to side, turning his head toward the nipple and then away in decreasing arcs.

Detailed explanation-2: -Your baby’s rooting reflex is an involuntary muscle response to stimulation of their mouth. It helps your baby find a nipple to feed. Your baby was born with this and other newborn reflexes to help them survive.

Detailed explanation-3: -Introduction. The rooting reflex is an innate response of the head due to the stimulation of the face, mouth, or cheek by touching/stroking (the head is turned towards the side of the stimulus). It is a brainstem mediated primitive motor reflex also called the frontal release reflex.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rooting reflex: The rooting reflex, or root reflex, is a basic survival instinct. It helps your baby find and latch onto a nipple to feed. When you lightly stroke your baby’s cheek or mouth, they should turn their head toward your hand. They should open their mouth and start to make sucking movements.