Infant school

This paper discussed three research articles and one professional online resource regarding interventions to increase adolescent breastfeeding, how relationships with maternal grandmothers and professionals affect infant feeding, and reliability of breastfeeding self-efficacy scores for predicting breastfeeding success. Study participants (n=537) consisted of adolescent mothers ranging from 15-19 years old, with one study listing participants as <20 years old. Dennis, Heaman, and Mossman…

nutritious food. “In 1867, Henri Nestlé, a pharmacist, was asked to look in on a neighbor’s child who couldn’t breastfeed. The baby thrived on the special mixture Henri created. Soon, Nestlé’s innovation—the world’s first infant food—was being sold throughout Europe, and the first infant food company, Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, was launched.” (Gerber History & Heritage) 2. Now: Gerber is still a name that I trust. It the product that I fed my kids. As noted above, Gerber Baby Food has been…

There are 4 types of services that provided by Mother’s Choice in total, which’s coco motioned before. First of all, they provide pregnant girls services, which are the most well-known services in Hong Kong. And the others are Child care home, Adoption services and foster care services. And I will further explain them in details with you. There are 3 parts within the pregnant girls services, which are intervention, prevention, and education, as mother’s choice want to ensure that every young…

During my rotation at obstetrics, I observed Laura, who is an RN. Laura went to school at DCCC where she received her associate RN degree. When becoming an RN, you can graduate from a two year or four year program. Laura has been working in obstetrics for five and a half years. While observing, I saw three different babies in the nursery. The first baby I observed, was the baby Laura was mainly taking care of. The baby was born at 6:20 a.m. on November 20, and was four weeks early. Laura was…

to sanitation and accidents. It was not unusual for one in ten children to die from disease, sickness, or accidents. Children had certain duties and roles that they played between the ages of birth to three, three to six, and seven to twelve. As infants the babies were kept in long and narrow beds or cradles because the puritans believed if the baby would stretch their legs they would walk faster. At about six months babies would be dressed in Petrie coats or skirts that were longer than their…

This week, I was working to improve my time management skills. I usually never had a problem in keeping up with the school work, but coming to a new job has made me realize that I still need some improvement in this area. Due to the job demand, I must be making 10 contacts with prenatal and postpartum mothers and speak to them about breastfeeding benefits and find any solutions to the problem. I have improved in this area, but my documentation needs some improvement because after making a lot of…

Immunization of pregnant women and infants protects children from six vaccine preventable diseases, tetanus, tuberculosis and measles. These are major preventable that helps in preventing the child mortality, disability, morbidity and related malnutrition. Immunization of pregnant women against…

The specialty I am most excited for is neonatal. Neonatal nurses work with the newborn babies, otherwise known as neonates. There are different types of nurses for different types of care the babies may need. Premature infants may need a certain type of nurse, while other infants may be fine without the critical care. Like adults, babies need to be cared for and need to be assessed very carefully. Working with babies has been my passion for as long as I can remember, and I am excited to be…

choose.Nurses can help normalize breastfeeding through educational resources in a variety of areas. Along with patient teaching and offering classes in the hospital setting for new mothers, nurses can participate in sex education presentations to teach school-age children what breastfeeding is, create support groups for breastfeeding mothers, and help inform local businesses and its patrons about public breastfeeding. In doing so, audiences of all ages would understand the importance of…

Nowadays, due to improvements of medical technology, people can check fetus is growing healthy by using prenatal tests. Pregnant woman can take tests between 15th and 20th weeks of pregnancy. They help to detect any problems that affect babies such as Downs Syndrome, and genetic diseases and also help mothers to make the best decision. Some people however indicate that using prenatal tests is ethically wrong because it seems doctors and mothers do not categorize fetus as human being.…