Palmar Grasp Reflex

Onset: 28 weeks gestation to birth
Integration: 4-5 months
Position: supine with head in midline
Procedure: insert your index finger into the palm of the infant’s hand, from the ulnar side and press gently against the palmar surface
Response: 1) quick flexion and adduction of the fingers (“catching phase”) 2) sustained flexion of the fingers when traction is maintained on the flexor tendons (“holding phase”)
Response may spread to entire arm and upper body

* Baby is 5wks 5days

[krantipravallikachintakunt]

The baby be like:
Step 2: *grasp parent firmly*

[Itzzcynthiaa]

if you stroke the side of his hand by the pinky you can get the baby to open its hands, therefore, having a more accurate test

[cptjrkov]

"Mama this ain't no bottle wtf" 😅🤣

Funny kid

[jonahsvideos]

This reflex is a useful skill that was very important to or ancestors has once we lived in the trees it was very important the baby hang on to the mother or it would fall to its death. Human baby’s still have this grip reflex due to this, to bad they don’t know how to hang of there parents back. Because that would be cool, because you would not have to hold them.

[worldquestioneer]

The baby’s upset for the last few minutes of the video. Maybe the baby’s fingers got hurt by you forcing the hand open?

[maryemsencar]

Is it normal if baby sometimes grasps hard and sometimes weak? My baby is 3 months and sometimes she will hold my finger tight, sometimes she will hold it VERY loose

[worldquestioneer]

Don’t force the baby’s hand open. That could hurt the baby’s fingers.

[TheLindagdetroit]

heyo! i just hit YouTube to research infant grip reflex. You were the first channel that was doing something other than baby weightlifting smh.

Question: What happens if the palmar reflex does not shut off? I'm pretty sure my left side has both palmar grasp reflex AND plantar reflex. Specifically the Babinski with both feet.

I call them Elf Toes. It's just the big toe, sticks straight up. It's not the normal plantar grasping reflex, it's Babinski.

Now HOW this happened... I got covid first wave 3/24/20. No big deal the first 2 weeks. I'm well versed in multiple therapeutic methods to keep post-nasal drip from dropping into the lungs.

Then 4/6/20 I woke up in a pool of sweat with bpm 150+. My entire neurological system went haywire. That's when the Elf Toes literally popped up lol.

I'm going to start digging for what thrse grasp reflexes are linked to. I don't work with infants and have never run across Babinski in an adult (that I know of).

If an adult has Babinski, obvs something is going on neurologically. I've traced it to both thumbs, so there's so weird cross-linkage going on with my meatsuit unless that is a known connection.

Any ideas? Thank you!!!!

[worldquestioneer]

:40 don’t suck on it! Don’t chew on it!