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pickles16
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Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
My dad was over the past few days and noticed that DD was favoring using her left hand more than her right for a lot of things, mainly picking up her food while she was eating....I am curious if you can tell if they will be left handed or right handed so early on...DD is 11 months...she also uses her left hand to lift herself up grab things etc...
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
With my other kids they favored their right hand ,and are now righties . Eva is 16 months old and draws with her right hand , so we shall see !
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| Posted 11/18/09 5:33 PM |
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Hofstra26
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
We knew from the moment we took our DD home she was right handed. She favored her ride side for everything on only sucked on her right thumb too! 
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| Posted 11/18/09 5:34 PM |
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A3CM
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
DS always favored his left hand.. and he is a lefty
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| Posted 11/18/09 5:36 PM |
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pickles16
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
Posted by My3girlsMylife
With my other kids they favored their right hand ,and are now righties . Eva is 16 months old and draws with her right hand , so we shall see !
thats so interesting, no one is left handed in our family, but my parents said that I started to use my left hand more and they were taught to "correct" it back in their country and I tend to be more "right brained" interesting...I hope I have a little creative maven on my hands...
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wants2bmommy
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
my son is 3months and only uses his left hand to grab things. so i too am thinking he is a lefty but we are all right handed dont know how that happened
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| Posted 11/18/09 6:00 PM |
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
Posted by pickles16
Posted by My3girlsMylife
With my other kids they favored their right hand ,and are now righties . Eva is 16 months old and draws with her right hand , so we shall see !
thats so interesting, no one is left handed in our family, but my parents said that I started to use my left hand more and they were taught to "correct" it back in their country and I tend to be more "right brained" interesting...I hope I have a little creative maven on my hands...
are right brained kids moer creative i notice he loves to look at the art and wood detailing in our house. id love to have a designer in the family.
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| Posted 11/18/09 6:01 PM |
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
Handedness isn't truly determined until age 3-4; it's common for children to switch off until this time
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| Posted 11/18/09 6:01 PM |
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
Posted by SweetCin
Handedness isn't truly determined until age 3-4; it's common for children to switch off until this time
Yeah that's what I heard.
AJ favors her left some weeks.. her right on others. Feeds herself with both. I would tend to think she is leaning towards right but I think that's cause both of us are right handed so we treat her as if she were right handed too - putting the sippy cup on her right, hand her the lovey on the right, lay her on her right, etc. A totally unconscious behavior but it may shape her later... *shrug*
Right or left I dont care... god knows she'll end up with our horrible handwriting! LOL
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
An OT told us to keep making sure to give him opportunities to use either hand until he is 6. Even if he prefers one hand, we should try to keep up the strength on both sides. I am left handed and I suspect that my son is but it is not an extreme preference yet. My mom says that I made it very obvious at a very young age. It makes sense because I feel like I am not just a lefty but I am an extreme lefty! I do nothing right handed at all.
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
Posted by SweetCin
Handedness isn't truly determined until age 3-4; it's common for children to switch off until this time
this is what the dr has told me and now I see its true because...
DD always favored her left hand (but still used both) and now that she is 3.5 - it is clear she is actually a righty, not a lefty.
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
DS favored his left hand until 18 months. I would have swore he was going to be a lefty. I have a lot in my family. But then at 18 months he switched to the right hand and still a righty even more so now at almost 2.5.
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steph7308
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
DD is 16 months old and in the pass few weeks iv noticed her using her left more. im lefty but FH is righty.
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| Posted 11/18/09 8:07 PM |
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Alex110879
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
ds has always favored his left and when ever you put something in his right he will immediately switch to his left.. though it wouldnt surprise my fil is a lefty, my father should have been a lefty, and my nephew is a lefty
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| Posted 11/18/09 8:17 PM |
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
DD has always favored her left hand and she is lefty just like her daddy.
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
Since DD was 5 weeks old I thought she was left handed. Im convinced she is. she absolutely favors it--feeds herself with it, picks things up with her left...to me it seems pretty clear.
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| Posted 11/18/09 10:03 PM |
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
Posted by Kerie-is-so-very
An OT told us to keep making sure to give him opportunities to use either hand until he is 6. Even if he prefers one hand, we should try to keep up the strength on both sides. I am left handed and I suspect that my son is but it is not an extreme preference yet. My mom says that I made it very obvious at a very young age. It makes sense because I feel like I am not just a lefty but I am an extreme lefty! I do nothing right handed at all.
I agree...as an OT I tell parents that hand dominance isn't definite till the child is around 5-6 yrs
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| Posted 11/18/09 10:36 PM |
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pickles16
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
thanks ladies...it does make sense that it will be determined later on, but meanwhile after doing my "professional" research called googling...some say that handedness is determined in the womb, but I guess doesn't truly come out until later...
I don't care either way, just found it interesting...
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
Right now I think that DS favors his left hand but he uses both. My DH writes lefty but is ambidextrous for just about everything else (although he has his preferences) so we shall see!!
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
I have been doing a lot of reading on this lately....
The old thought was that children tend to go back and forth until age 3 or 4...
But I have been finding some literature that says that while children do tend to go back and forth until this time most will show a preference by 18 months or so...
There is one theory involving individuals that are left handed. The theory is that people that are left handed were actually a set of identical mirror twins and the other twin failed to develope/implant.
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
Posted by hbugal
There is one theory involving individuals that are left handed. The theory is that people that are left handed were actually a set of identical mirror twins and the other twin failed to develope/implant.
I've heard this theory too.
Christopher is most likely left handed, he has always used his left hand and really favors it now at 2.5
Interestingly....my mom and all of her maternal cousins are left handed, no one in my generation is, but DS is and my cousin's two are...
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| Posted 11/19/09 9:57 AM |
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pickles16
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
Posted by hbugal
I have been doing a lot of reading on this lately....
The old thought was that children tend to go back and forth until age 3 or 4...
But I have been finding some literature that says that while children do tend to go back and forth until this time most will show a preference by 18 months or so...
There is one theory involving individuals that are left handed. The theory is that people that are left handed were actually a set of identical mirror twins and the other twin failed to develope/implant.
thats sooo weird...we have some distant set of twins and when I first got pregnant my grandmother kept saying it's twins identical girl twins..it was weird, bc my grandmother is usually dead on about things..she called that DD would be a gilr and some other really really random things in my life she has dreamt about and they've all come true
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| Posted 11/19/09 10:08 AM |
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wants2bmommy
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Re: Infant right handed left handed can you tell this early?
Posted by pickles16
Posted by hbugal
I have been doing a lot of reading on this lately....
The old thought was that children tend to go back and forth until age 3 or 4...
But I have been finding some literature that says that while children do tend to go back and forth until this time most will show a preference by 18 months or so...
There is one theory involving individuals that are left handed. The theory is that people that are left handed were actually a set of identical mirror twins and the other twin failed to develope/implant.
i heard about the twin thing too and you know what it runs in my family also. and at 10weeks i had bleeding for two weeks imagine that was the other baby.
thats sooo weird...we have some distant set of twins and when I first got pregnant my grandmother kept saying it's twins identical girl twins..it was weird, bc my grandmother is usually dead on about things..she called that DD would be a gilr and some other really really random things in my life she has dreamt about and they've all come true
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