SINGAPORE – A teacher at baby Ginny’s infant care centre was the first to observe that, unlike other babies her age, Ginny wasn’t holding her head up during tummy time. At that point, she was three months old.

Around the same time, Ginny’s parents took her for a routine developmental check-up. “Our paediatrician, who is also a paediatric neurologist, noticed some developmental delays and said this could be a normal occurrence and advised monitoring,” her mother Jenny Mak, 31, said.