Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Behaviour/development

Talk to others about child development and behaviour stages here. You can find more information on our development calendar.

10 month old hand preference/ poor grip

2 replies

UpsideRaspberryAround · 21/11/2013 21:24

DD already uses one hand better than the other, and is starting to have a real preference for one. With her left she can whole hand grasp, but with her right she can't. Funnily she can pincer grip with both, what seems to prevent whole hand grasp is poor control over her ring finger and little finger, she doesn't straighten them as much or use them as well (though they move). If she picks up something large that fills her hand, like a small ball, she could only grip it with her left. With her left if she holds something thin she holds it normally, but with her right it's a funny grip. For example if she holds a pencil she could have only her middle finger over it in her grasp with the rest under it. She's now noticing the ease in which her left works and more and more is sticking to one hand play. Her right is functional, just not as good.

Does this go beyond left/ right preference?

As background her development motor wise is slow, though there are no other concerns I have.

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
lljkk · 21/11/2013 22:23

I would ask HV; it's hard for us to say without seeing & we're mostly not Child Dev experts anyway.

She's probably FINE. But better to verify that with an expert.

DeWe · 22/11/2013 09:53

My dm was told that strong preference at that age could indicate a weakness in the other arm.
It didn't for dsis, but it is worth getting it checked.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page