Birth Stages In Angola

My mother describes it as the perfect day; the sun was shining, my dad had just finished working and right before dinner was being served suddenly her water broke. They arrived to the hospital around 6:30pm. Since I was their first child, my mother had been in labor for almost 14 hours. In Angola, you don’t always get the proper childbirth practices, most are unsafe due the high rate of adolescent pregnancy. In Luanda, Angola’s most populous province, 12 percent of pregnant women are adolescents (Diaz, A.). Fortunately for my parents, they had the right amount of wealth to have the proper delivery with the proper care. My grandmother arrived to the hospital during the first stage of the birth process, while my mother was having uterine …show more content…
My knowledge was limited to sensory and motor experiences. (Ch. 5). Later in this stage is where I experienced and developed object permanence, which is the realization that objects exist even when they are not within view. (ch.5) For now, I was still at the age where the A-Not-B Error occurred, which is the error than infants make when an object is hidden in location A, found by the infant, and then, in full view of the infant, moved to location B. (ch.5). At this age, my sensory memory was not fully developed. Information at this age was retained for merely only a fraction of a second and in three separate stores; the iconic store for visual input, the echoic store for auditory input, and the haptic store for tactile input. My parents like to think that my first words came out when I was 7 months old because I kept repeating the words “mama” and “dada”, little did they know in reality all that was happening was cononical babbling. My real first words came about when I was around a year old and I am pretty sure my first word was “milk”. Around 18 months is when I started to express two word utterances. Although my parents spoke Portuguese all their lives, when moving to America as an infant my parents self-taught themselves English and in our household the only language spoken …show more content…
If they did not occur, there would be a lack of confidence that my needs would be met. This was part of Erik Erikson’s 8 stages of psychosocial development. When I was two months old to seven months old, I expressed only the emotions of anger, sadness, joy, surprise and fear. Smiling was very important in early emotions, it is shown when newborns experience a change in physiological arousal and social smiles come out at about 3 months of age and can occur between 6-10 weeks (ch.6). As an infant, there were different approaches I took in order to regulate my emotions. When I was an infant around 12 months old I would suck my thumb in order to regulate my emotions. At 18 months old I used distractions and active attempts to regulate my emotions and change the situation. I always sought my mother during upsetting events and my mother’s response was always loving and positive. My mother described me as an easy baby when it came to my personal temperament. She claimed I was cheerful, relaxed and predictable. I had a very strong attachment towards both my parents, but especially my mother. Psychologist John Bowlby stressed the importance of attachment in the first year of life and the responsiveness of the caregiver. He believed that infants and mothers instinctively form an attachment and that infants goal is to keep their mothers close. Picking between