Children of mothers who have had complications during pregnancy, at birth, or immediately after birth are characterised as at “neurorisk”. Although in medical documentation it is often cited as a diagnosis, it is important to highlight that it is not a disease. Classification of newborns into low and high categories of neurorisk children is performed by a neonatologist in the maternity ward, that is, a pediatrician of primary health care (after leaving the maternity ward). The division of risk factors are numerous, and the most common are those that are divided into: prenatal, perinatal and postnatal. By assessing the quality of general movements, a form of assessing the neuromotor development of infants is developed. Due to the factors of individuality and psychomotor development of a child with a neurodevelopmental risk, early diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders is necessary, as well as interdisciplinary monitoring and early rehabilitation. In the second half of the 20th century, registers of neurorisk children were created. Research on risk factors for early development in Croatia is not numerous, but are valuable, and mostly demonstrate what the research in the rest of the world shows.