Colicky Infants: A Case Study

My experiences working with children aged birth to five has contributed to my interest in working in the field of infant mental health. I’ve co-facilitated a bereavement group working with children age three and a half to seven and I have also had the opportunity to volunteer in a children’s hospital setting. In addition to these experiences working with young children, I have taken a course on play therapy.

Before receiving the Real Care Baby, I knew it took a lot of work to care for a newborn. I now know that it takes a lot more than I thought. The forty-eight hours I had the baby were frustrating, exhausting, and stressful. It’s a lot of hard work, but I’m sure if it were a real child it would totally be worth it.

Another important clinical competency I experienced while working with this patient was identifying the necessity of constructive feedback from my preceptor and others. Specifically when it came to feeding practices by this patient’s mother who I felt was over-feeding the baby. I realized that after explaining the situation I was sounding judgmental, and that I needed to disregard my personal feelings about the mom’s feeding style and instead find opportunities to advocate for the patient and educate the mom further. With advice from my instructor and the help of Kathryn we then placed a phone call to the hospital lactation consultants and arranged a meeting for her to come and work with the mom to try and encourage breastfeeding and offer further education about proper feeding practices for her new baby.

Due to the loss of muscle mass, protein adequacy is also a problem in older adults because it is not advised to increase protein intake. Limited protein intake may result in vitamin A, C, D, calcium, iron, zinc, and other deficiencies (Grodner, 2012). Overall, Theresa’s small nutrient intake can result in many nutrient deficiencies.

The critical intervention video I chose was the birth to three years old. The video focused on soothing or calming a child that has difficult temperament. The video shows how to manage stress, upset, or arousal. Children from the age of 0-3 years old have very unbalanced nervous systems. They need caregivers to respond to their emotional distress with compassion. Babies need healthy attachment to their caregivers; this requires them to be seen, soothed, safe, and stimulated. It is difficult to do these things with children with difficult temperament because their nervous system is unbalanced. The way to resolve that is by balancing their emotional distress with active calming and soothing. If I were to intervene in a family environment when

Before taking Child Development, I hadn’t heard about Infant Colic. After learning a little bit about it in class, I decided to do some research of my own on it. An infant can be born healthy and well-fed, but can “cry for several hours a day, several days a week” due to them having Colic. There are some theories as to what causes Colic. Some of the causes may be “gas, growing digestive system, stomach pains caused by hormones and babies becoming overstimulated and oversensitive to light and noise.” Your baby could have an “infection, an irregular heartbeat, stomach problems, or even increased eye pressure” (WebMD).

She is a full term baby who was born with weight of 2.977 kg (6 lbs 9 oz) with normal spontaneous vaginal delivery. She was healthy with no respiratory, congenital or cardiac issues. She didn’t require special care or hospitalization in the NICU. She was discharged after three days with her mother.

During my clinical at North Suburban, I was assigned to follow Tarina, the lactation specialist. In the afternoon she puts on a breastfeeding clinic down in the basement. This allows new mothers to come in and receive help with breastfeeding and ask questions. We provide scales so that we can weight the babies before and after a feeding to determine effectiveness of the feeding sessions. During our time in the clinic, an African American couple came in and they were clearly new parents. They were extra gentile with their new baby, the diaper was on incorrectly, and they appeared to be cautious to not make the little boy cry. The reason they came into the clinic was because the

Gassy in baby make the baby uncomfortable until they became cranky and cried. Actually the gassy in baby aged 3 to 4 months is reasonable, because their digestive don't work perfectly. As they get older, they will also often experience gassy due to start trying different foods for the first time.

A nineteen year old, white female is admitted to the emergency room with sharp pain in the abdomen and no previous medical history. The symptoms the patient reports include slight abdomen pain accompanied by vomiting and a low fever beginning a few days before seeking medical help. A few days later, the abdomen pain worsens and moves above the appendix. The patient reports that the pain continued to worsen and then began to feel much better. The night the patient was admitted to the hospital, she says that the pain had come back and was now worse than it had ever been (1). Upon arrival at the hospital a nurse will examine the patient and various exams will be performed; these will include an exam to see if the abdomen is inflamed, a urine test,

Zoe and Thomas two-week-old twins developed a staph infection. The infection was very difficult to treat so the infants were put on Heparin a blood thinning drug. The infants were delivered the adult dosage of heparin which was 1000 the concentration of the infant dosage. The twins were given two doses of heparin eight hours apart. The infant were put in critical care for the overdose.

PER REPORTER: Kristy said today after Robin gave birth to baby girl Rybolt the doctors discovered that mom tested positive for both amphetamine and meth amphetamine. However, Kristy said they do not know as of now if the baby is also positive for the drugs. She said they are currently in the process of doing a urine drug screening on the child. Kristy said as of now baby girl has not displayed any signs of being positive for the drugs. She said the baby is not jittery or showing signs of withdrawal; however, she said the signs could start showing up after a few hours. She said the child is currently eating properly and displaying normal behavior. Kristy said both the baby and her mother can be found in room 213, and she said they are not expected

Colic is one of the most common ailments experienced by horses and is more common in horses than any other animal. It is more common at night and is often connected with irregular feeding. This is because of the horses’ inability to vomit and unload the stomach, the small size of the stomach and the great length of the intestines, puckering of the large intestine allowing food to lodge there, the range of movement the large intestine has within the abdomen and finally, the frequency a horse is affected with internal parasites. Colic can be fatal so it is vitally important that a vet should be called if colic is suspected. Colic is a set of symptoms pointing to severe abdominal pain. True colic relates to conditions arising in the intestines

All babies cry, it is a infants only way of communication. Crying attracts the parents attention and alerts them that their baby is hungry, tired, in pain needs to be cuddled. If there is no apparent reason for crying and it becomes frequent, prolonged and the infant is inconsolable it often becomes attributed to colic. Colic is no longer regarded as a sign of gastro-intestinal dysfunction but rather indicates high levels of arousal or distress and could be attributed to difficulties in self-regulation and to the individual temperament and personality of the infant.

The introduction of lactation programs by companies also protects mothers from contracting ailments associated with the failure to administer to the children milk. The typical diseases related to the act are breast and ovarian cancer. According to León-Cava, Lutter, Ross, & Martin (2002), the process enables the mother to respond to body’s physiological needs since suppressing the milk risk the wellness of the mothers. The natural response of the body dictates that one must express the milk at specific intervals. Therefore, in a context where the mothers lack the privilege to feed the child appropriately, the party confronts the risk of developing diseases associated with the inability to respond to natural body impulses. At times,