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Aurora Marie Easley Research Paper

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Right after Aurora Marie Easley was born the doctor did the Apgar score on her to know if she is a healthy baby or not. APGAR scoring is based off of heart rate, respiration, muscle tone, reflexes and skin tone. Then if Aurora gets a total of seven or more than she would be considered in good physical condition, a total of four to six she would need special attention and a total of three or less her life is life-threatening. However, Aurora scored a total of ten, she weighted eight pounds and was the most beautiful baby I have ever seen. It’s been four days, one week since me and hubby left the hospital with our precious Aurora. Out days as been breathe taking and also restless. Like any other baby Aurora has newborn reflexes, such as the ability to naturally blink, root, step, palmar, suck, moro and babinski. Which is interesting because hubby and I does not have to teach her because she naturally does it already. However, some of those abilities occurs mainly when she is a baby such as rooting that happens during the third and fourth weeks of her life, stepping that occurs when she is two or three months old, palmar during three to four months, sucking during four months, moro six months …show more content…

Within zero to six months Aurora can be still in a fetal posture, put her chin up, chest up, reach around, sit with Justin or my support, sit on our laps, grasp object and sit on her purple high chair grasping for dangling objects. So far she has improved her motor skills. Then within seven to fifth months Aurora started sitting alone, stand with help, stand holding furniture, creep, walk when we led her, pull to stand by furniture climb stair steps, stand alone with no help and walked alone. Now she has reached her toddler stage where she no longer need us to support her up or carry her. Her motor skills keeps improving day by day grasping everything and anything she can get her hands

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