Newborns: A Passage Analysis

Infant attachment is the first relationship a child experiences and is crucial to the child’s survival (BOOK). A mother’s response to her child will yield either a secure bond or insecurity with the infant. Parents who respond “more sensitively and responsively to the child’s distress” establish a secure bond faster than “parents of insecure children”. (Attachment and Emotion, page 475) The quality of the attachment has “profound implications for the child’s feelings of security and capacity to form trusting relationships” (Book). Simply stated, a positive early attachment will likely yield positive physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive development for the child. (BOOK)

In Our Babies, Ourselves Meredith Small begins her article by stating the observations made by anthropologist Robert LeVine. In an experiment, LeVine showed a group of Gusii women from southwestern Kenya a video of American mothers taking care of their babies The Gusii were mystified by the actions of the American mothers in the video. The Gusii believed that the Americans were incompetent because they were ignoring the cries of their infants. Small then points out that American’s would be similarly perplexed by the way the Gusii women allow young girls to take care of their infants. Small later goes on to talk about several studies that have been performed in order to analyze growth and development of infants under different conditions, the

One of the characteristics that babies learn before entering the world is sound. Annie explained that the mother’s voice can reach the fetus readily compared to external voices. While the mother is with the baby all the time, they prefer the mom’s voice over anyone else’s after birth. She

DeCasper and Spence (1986) cited in Harris (2004) did an experiment where they asked pregnant women to read passage from a DR Seuss story called The Cat in the Hat. The experiment involved the pregnant women reading the passage twice a day for the last 6 weeks of her pregnancy. The main goal of the experiment was to determine whether the unborn babies recall the passage after birth. The babies where test two or three days after birth, the testing involved with a special pressure- sensing dummy that was wired up to record how hard and fast they were sucking. The babies where divided in to two groups.

The documentary Babies by Thomas Balmès is a film that takes place in four very different locations around the world. The documentary follows four babies and their families from when they are first born as they grow up and are able to walk. We watch Ponijao grow up in Namibia, Bayar grow up in Mongolia, Hattie grow up in San Francisco, and Mari grow up in Tokyo. Because the babies are from such different places, the documentary allows us to see what it is like growing up in cultures that we are currently unfamiliar with. The film opens up your eyes to the various forms of living in other areas around the world. In this paper, I will discuss the universal themes I noticed, my personal reflection of the film, the various

The human life span is from conception to death and can be divided into eight different developmental periods. This essay will focus on the early childhood period that ranges from two to five or six years of age. Firstly, this essay will describe the typical developmental milestones during early childhood and how they play an important role in each developmental stage that follows. Secondly, it will analyse how the home and educational environments influence early childhood. Finally, it will define Auditory Processing Disorder and the characteristics of a child with this condition. This essay will demonstrate the significant impact Auditory Processing Disorder can have significant effects on development and in the future.

The cold October wind blew the drizzle right into my face as I got out my car. The fog coated my glasses as soon as I walked into the Hinsdale United Methodist Church. I was invited to play the violin at a ceremony hosted by the local hospital for women who had a miscarriage. In pain of sorrow there is consolation, in the face of despair there is hope, and in the midst of death there is life. October is the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month and the first candle to honor the experience, validate the brief life and pay tribute to the loss of babies.

Physical development of the human begins at conception when the egg is fertilized by the sperm. Once the ovum is fertilized, the process of mitosis begins, allowing the cells to split and form the human being. Through this process, each parent contributes 23 chromosomes, which are present in every cell of our bodies, and are made up of DNA and genes (Broderick & Blewitt, 2015). The genes that we inherit from our parents determine our physical features, such as hair and eye color, and height. Furthermore, the combination of various genes within the body at the time of conception may result in the individual carrying unexpected traits and illnesses (Broderick & Blewitt, 2015).

The Journal of Perinatal Education. 2001. Web. 4 November 2016, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ articles/PMC1595080/#. Author is very educated (lots of titles). Article contains a lot of information from other experiments.

The costs of this expansion will mostly go toward labor, as labor is the single largest component of costs for early infant and toddler care centers (Marshall et al., 2004). For teachers to stay invested in the children they teach and care for, they must be fairly compensated to maintain the high quality of care. According to a study in Massachusetts, 72 percent of typical full-time, full-year center expenditures go toward labor (Marshall, et al., 2004). In dollar amounts, “average expenditures per child care hour were $4.42 for centers serving infants and $4.28 for centers serving toddlers. These correspond to full-time care expenditures of $10,343 and $10,015 for the two groups of centers [infants and toddlers, respectively]”

The ear (hearing), it is completely developed in the fifth month of pregnancy. This sense is stimulated by internal and external experiences from the environment. “research done in Japan has shown that newborns whose mothers lived near Osaka airport during pregnancy were able, after birth, to sleep through the roar of airplanes while other newborns resented such disturbing sounds.” (UHB pg.8)

I used to think that dolls were nothing except perfect little pieces of glass. I didn’t really care for me as much as my mother did, but soon enough...every look, every word, every sound started to run my life.

Eight months and two days old: I’m uncertain of what I am. But, I’m extremely determined to stretch my wings and fly away. How can I do this? I’m stuck in between a bubble full of air and warm water, I guess– and I’m trying to see my way out. But, I'm too small. I’m too weak. There's no way I can do this alone. I need help! This is the thought process of a baby before it’s born… When it blossoms, the help is nonexistent.

Advancement made in regard to cognitive neuroscience has enabled a better understanding of the cognitive processes in infants. Studies have indicated that cognitive development in infants starts before they are born. In the eighth week of pregnancy, fetuses have the ability to hear. They become accustomed to their

People always think that once you have a kid, it will be all sunshine and daisies. Maybe sometimes it can be like that, but not always. There are joys and challenges with everything in life. Many people have different ways of describing the joys or challenges of taking care of an infant, for example, some people would find that first outing as a joy and some people find it as a challenge. Men and Women both have perspectives with how they raise their children, whether together or as a single parent.