Baby Project Reflection Essay During my four days with the baby I had new developments for how I felt towards children. My initial thoughts on this baby project was that it would be easy and fun because of my experience with my little brother and sister, but boy was I wrong. The project was a lot of work. You don’t get a fun interactive baby, you only get the bad parts of the baby. You get the crying, diaper using, and hungry baby. It’s a lot of work. I went out with the child two times. My first time going out with the child was at a nail salon. It was not too bad. The baby did not cry except for the very end. The last minute or so, but the nail people were sure asking a lot of questions. At first they thought it was real and wanted to know …show more content…
You have to do all the work. Taking care of this child alone shows how much you need that other person. Someone who is going to love the child equally and help out so you can have a break. Plus taking care of a child alone while in sports and in school, that's even more difficult. You have to step out of class and you miss parts of the lecture or if you stay in class everyone stares at you and silently judges you for not being able to get the baby to be quiet. Being on the cheer team with a baby is also hard. I would be in the middle of working on the routine and the baby would start crying so I had to stop and go take care of her while everyone else kept working. Being in this alone, in school, and in a sport was very difficult and frustrating. I just wanted so badly for someone to be able to help me and take care of the baby while I had something else to do. I also had a couple big tests to study for and I would get so frustrated and cry because the baby was crying and sometimes I could not figure out what it wanted and all I wanted to do was study. I missed out on attending activities and going out because I was too embarrassed. My cousin had invited me to the mall, but I did not want to care the baby everywhere I went; the baby carrier was too heavy to be carrying such a long time. I also had to opt out of a bike ride to the beach because I had nowhere to put the baby that would guarantee a safe ride there. Having to cancel plans or
Welcome Baby Care is a full-service doula agency that is located in Edina, Minnesota. This doula agency was established in 2006. Welcome Baby Care offers in-home services and care packages. Their in-home services include daytime doula care, “night nanny” care, lactation counseling, and gentle sleep coaching. Welcome Baby Care is affiliated with the Minnesota Department of Health, Postpartum Support International, Mom Enough, and more.
The word prevent implies “to come before” – namely. To take action against what could potentially become a problem. This is often referred to in the field of mental health as primary prevention (Bloom, 1995). The goal of primary prevention programs in child maltreatment is to prevent child abuse from occurring. The enactment of various public policies at the national and state levels relevant to children’s health and welfare may be viewed as primary prevention.
The Child Study data I have gathered comes from the observation I have completed at Mission Bell Elementary School. Mission Bell Elementary School is a local school in Riverside. In the P.M preschool class there are 24 students, one teacher, and one assistant. The child I decided to observe is names Zoe. Zoe is 4 years and 10 months old. I immediately was drawn to Zoe because she had such a big personality, was very social, and smart. I am glad that I choose to observe Zoe because she was able to make my observation process smooth and easy. While observing her I had to pay close attention to her biosocial development, motor skills, cognitive skills, communication skills,
Everything you have heard about African Rabies is false. There is no cure and you are in danger. The people that are infected are dangerous and they are not human. The virus is spread through bites and the infected are killed by killing their brain. Leaders all over Wilson have risen to save the city from this infestation that is just outside our borders. This report laid out in the next couple of paragraphs will provide everything you need to prepare, protect, and preserve your life.
The birth rate is supposed to be increasing these past few years, but instead it's actually been decreasing. A reason for this is that people are having less children at an older age. "During my childhood Catholics in Britain often had six to ten children. Now two is more likely." This quote from Let's Have More Babies is basically saying how most couples would make enough kids to triple quintuple the population, but now only enough kids to replace the mother and father is being made. If most couples start only having 2 kids the population won't go up as much as it would if 6 to 10 kids were being made.
During my time with the Real Care Baby, I actually went a lot of places. I went to two basketball games with it and faced the challenge of not being able to hear it cry. I had to keep checking on it every minute or so just to be sure. When it did cry, I had to leave the game to go outside and take care of it. I hated missing the game. Night time was the worse because I was exhausted, but I was afraid I would sleep through the crying so I hardly slept. The first night was rough because she woke up a lot and needed tons of attention. All I wanted to do was crawl in bed and fall asleep. The second night
At 6 weeks infants develop a social smile, at 3 month laughter and curiosity develop, at 4 months full responsive smiles emerge, from 4-8 months they develop anger, from 9014 months they develop a fear of social events, at 12 months the are fearful of unexpected sights and sounds, and at 18 months they are self-aware, feel pride, shame, and embarrassment. In the first two years, infants develop from reactive pain and pleasure to complex patterns of social awareness. Emotions in infants are produced from their body as opposed to their thoughts. Therefore fast and uncensored reactions are common in infants. During their toddler years, the strength of their emotions will increase.
Infant development is inseparable from the progression of the infant’s relationship with caregivers. Contemporary accounts of the early comments highlighted the role of parents and other guardians in supporting infants gradually (Lyons-Ruth & Zeanah, 1993). This is because the infant needs parents who can help her negotiate the developmental task. Thus, there are 4 stages to develop which is birth to 4 weeks, age 1 to 3 months, 3 to 6 months and 6 to 12 months.
In addition, during my observation, Sydney was able to demonstrate the following gross motor skills. Sydney was placed in a sitting position on the table as well on the floor and was able to sit up unassisted for brief periods of time. Although Sydney appeared to be unstable at times, her mother closely spotted her to ensure her safety. Most babies are able to sit up by themselves unassisted for short periods of time (Oswalt, n.d.). By being able to sit upright and support the weight of her head in the proper position, shows Sydney has developed her core body strength and has met this developmental milestone. In addition, while lying on a blanket on her stomach, Sydney was able to lift her chest and head. According to American Pregnancy Association, most infants at 6 months old can lift their chest and part of their stomach while lying face down (First,
A designer baby is genetically engineered baby. In other words designer baby is an edited human examples are parents’ choice of eye color, skin color the child being smart or active. The first designer baby was created in the year 2000. A designer baby can also not contract diseases you can genetically make the baby be immune to a family disease or any certain diseases. What are the benefits of having a designer baby?
Once babies are grown in test tubes, there would be no need for parents and therefore vanish the incredible bond between the mother, father, and child. The childhood of a child that was grown in a test tube would be completely unconventional, since that child would not have loving parents to teach them anything. Adults raised this way would grow up to be unusual as a result of not knowing what love is since people first know about love because of the love between them and their parents. The adults grown from test tubes would most likely be independent and isolated from the rest of the world because they would not have created a bond with anyone or even interacted with anyone as a child.
What interest me in this major is that I see working with babies as more of a challenge than working with adults or kids. Babies can’t verbalize what’s wrong, you have to diagnose them, and this is the challenging part. With babies, you have the most potential to impact their lives, because they have their whole life. Also, I have always loved working with kids, what made me go into this career was my little cousin he was premature baby and I would go and take care of him at times and I would always see the nurses doing so many diagnoses to them and that was interesting to me. It’s a challenging career but that’s what I love to experience I love challenging my self.
Infants go through different developmental stages. It is a part of the human life cycle. The beginning stages of an infant’s life is the most developing (Payne & Issacs, 2012). One of the stages that infant go through is the Late Infancy Stage. During the Late Infancy Stage, infants between 7-9 months reach many different milestones. As the infant grows and becomes aware of their surrounding the more developed they become. Infants discover new things daily and it is important to support their growth. Late Infancy stage involves the gross motor, fine motor, oral- motor, cognitive language, personal and social
“A baby whose genetic makeup has been selected in order to eradicate a particular defect, or to ensure that a particular gene is present”; the definition of a designer baby is a simple one. A child who, through science and engineering, is given traits desired by it’s parents to resemble their view of a healthier, better baby. Whether that is to treat a mutation in the child’s DNA that could result in Down’s Syndrome or changing the baby’s eye color from brown to blue, science has made it not only conceivable but a very likely possibility, for fully designed babies to be waddling down the street within the century. Though the term “designer baby” is not one recognized by scientists, many journalists across the world have coined the term to explain the quite terrifying potential reality that lies ahead for humanity. Currently, only two types of advanced reproductive techniques can be conducted on humans. One, analyzes the sperm to determine the sex and genes of the baby, and the second screens for various genetic deformities that may occur before birth, thus allowing people to only fertilize healthy embryos.
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]”