A baby in Brazil has stunned many around the world after she appeared to start walking minutes after being born, Mirror UK, reports.
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Doctors were trying to bathe her, but she had other ideas and started to wriggle around to walk on her own.
Normally, babies don’t start walking until they are about 12 months old. It is believed the footage was shot at Santa Cruz Hospital in Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil.
One of the people in the hospital said: “Wow, she is so cute it’s amazing. If she’s like this now, I can just imagine how precocious she is going to be as she grows up.”
To which the midwife holding the baby girl says: “Heavens above. If you told people what has just happened, no one would believe it unless they saw it with their own eyes.”
For the midwife, it is particularly surprising to hear this as it is not that uncommon in newborn babies – it’s actually something they often show naturally.
Known as the walking or stepping reflex, ‘if you hold the baby under the arms (being careful to support her head, as well) and let her soles touch a flat surface, she’ll place one foot in front of the other and “walk”,’ Healthy Children writes.
“This reflex will disappear after two months, then reoccur as she learned voluntary behaviour of walking toward the end of the first year.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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“My daughter has not seen her biological dad since she was four. She’s 11 now. When she was two he contacted me and asked if I would allow him to terminate his parental rights so he could stop paying child support and I agreed.. I wanted to spare her the heartache of a revolving door father and the sacrifice of the financial support was well worth him never being able to disappoint her again.
I never lied to her about where he went or who her dad was.. I have always answered her questions in the most age appropriate way possible.
When she was four he contacted me and told me he has been diagnosed with cancer and would like to see her. I set aside a day and we met in the park. He had asked for two hours. He stayed 20 minutes and we never heard from him again..
Over the summer we ran into somebody that knows him and they commented on how she looks like his other children. They elaborated that he has settled down and has a family now. My stomach tied itself in knots thinking of how hurtful that must be to my daughter..
I cut the conversation short and we got in the car to leave and that’s when I saw her smiling. She said:
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