All parents look forward to see their baby’s first steps and chose to use a baby-walker to help their baby.

However, the baby-walkers can cause several health problems in developmental period of babies. Aside from injuries, it can harm the spinal development of babies if it is used too early.

Thus, it should be waited a while for the babies to develop their muscles by crawling, rolling and standing up. Then, you can expect from them to start walking.

American Academy of Pediatrics also point out that the baby-walkers are not beneficial for babies to walk sooner, on the contrary, delay motor and mental development.