The Stool Of A Bottle Fed Infant

Constipation is very common in babies that affects the ability to pass regular stools. This condition usually causes pain and discomfort resulting for the stool to look hard and dark than usual.

It is important to mention that infants are not completely helpless. Whether their inability to move around, they have their way to respond to the environment through the reflexes such as: the routing reflex which occurs when the infant’s cheek is stroked or the side of the mouth is touched. We also have the sucking reflex that occurs when newborns suck and object placed in their mouth. The reflex enables newborns to get nourishments before it has begun to

Reflexes are the infant’s most obvious organized patterns of behavior. A reflex is an unlearned, involuntary, automatic response to a particular form of stimulation. A wide variety of reflexes are seen in infants during the last four months of prenatal life and the first four months after birth. Reflexes also occur subcortically, which means “below the level of cortex of the brain.” (282 MD) Reflexive movements are therefore without direct involvement of the higher brain centers. Reflexes are an important role to infants, they are used for protection, nutrition, survival and development of voluntary movement. Reflexes are an interesting subject that I learned in my motor development class this semester as well as in this lifespan development class. I found it fascinating that we as humans use reflexes to survive and eventually they help us learn to function.

Newborn reflexes play an important role in the construction of the traction in the early stages of development because they are the first well established driving structures from which an infant may start to diversify themselves and create new schemes. Reflexive behavior is fixed; it does not allow for voluntary control to achieve a goal. However, from three months on babies begin to establish the first relationships between actions and feelings. They are very simple movements in appearance, but require the implementation of neural connections; they are a fundamental first step.

* Height – Infants grow approximately 2.5 cm (1 in) per month the first 6 months of life. Growth occurs in spurts after the age of 6 months, and the birth length increases by 50% by the age of 12 months.

Four head shaped paddles were used as the stimuli. There was one which resembled a face, one was a slightly scrambled face, another that was severely scrambled, and the last was a completely blank paddle. The infants

| |and will move their head to watch others. The baby has found their fingers and can engage |

The norm of one wet nappy in day one and one soiled nappy will increase as the first week progresses. Wet diapers should become more frequent and heavier. Babies stools will change from black stools (meconium) to green (transitional stools) to yellow by about day 4. If the meconium and transitional stools do not change within the first 4 days this is a warning for possible breastfeeding issues. In this instance you should take remedial action immediately. Maintaining a breastfeeding log will be helpful to keep track frequency and changes.

While most babies pass stools every day, other babies only pass stool once every 2–3 days. If your baby’s stools are less frequent but look soft and easy to pass, then your baby is not constipated.

Neonates are born with perceptual constancy. They are familiar with objects with constant proportion and size despite the changes in distance

Your baby is now almost grown, size around 20-25 cm long and weighs 25-30gms, the size is like that of a banana all the sense organs are developing very fast now your baby is taking somersaults and making rapid movement which you can feel more clearly.

Speaking from personal experience, in terms of sensory and perceptual capacity, one can hypothesize that infants are sensitive to brightness and movement; infants can track moving objects at close range although they cannot focus their eyes very well in the first few months, and infants can discriminate between smells such as a mother’s smell, from those of other people. I believe that infants are also responsive to positive and negative touch, and highly sensitive to pain contrary to past beliefs. One can also hypothesize that although newborns have reserve reflexes or involuntary responses to external stimuli, many of these reflexes changes in stages as they move through the developmental process.

Being that “one-year-olds typically show one of four major patterns – secure, avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized-disoriented” it is possible to determine which classification an infant falls into when observing them (Feldman 180).

Infants are born with a number if reflexes that help them to adjust outside of the womb

The first primitive reflex to explore is the blinking reflex. This reflex occurs when a light is flashed or a puff of air is exposed to a child’s eyes. This stimulus causes the eyes to close. As not the case with some reflexes, this one is actually permanent and can remain visible on a subject for their entire lives. (Santrock, p. 83, 2014) The subject was tested with both a puff of