Infant

Consumption of extra iron in the form of fortified formula for infants has been a concern amongst Australian scientists due to its association with Parkinson’s disease and dementia. A lack of iron in the diet may cause anaemia which lowers the ability of the haemoglobin to carry oxygen which will cause fatigue and even worse, cardiac arrest. Conversely, excess intake of iron may cause Parkinson’s disease, it is a neurodegenerative disorder leads to progressive deterioration of motor function…

Literature Review In the first article, Infant Developmental Outcomes: A Family Systems Perspective, the authors wanted to see if parental mental health and the relationship of the couple influenced an infant’s development. According to the study, forty-two families took part at 3 different points in time: 3 months postpartum, 5 months postpartum and 17 months postpartum. They found that the parents who had typical mental health, had better parental-infant relationships and the parents who…

It is additionally interesting to note that our infant mortality rate is incredibly low for a developed country. Americans’ have a general perception that our healthcare is incredible, when in fact, it is not. For such incredible prices, you would think we would be leading the world in advancements and medical triumphs, but this is not the case. Not in terms of actual care, procedural advancement or pharmaceutical soundness. Wright & Rogers (2015) explain how capitalism works to control the…

Improving the health and well being of infants, children, women, and families is an important goal to Healthy People 2020. To achieve this goal, Healthy People 2020 has identified numerous objectives that target a variety of health conditions affecting the health of mothers, infants, and children. Objective MICH-1.3 focuses on reducing the death rates of infants less than a year of age. Healthy People 2020 has deemed MICH-1.3 important because it reflects on the health and well-being of not…

will infants gazes only follow humans? The specific question of their study is will infants gaze follow an object of contingent behavior with or without a face and an object of non-contingent behavior with or without a face? Alternatives: One alternative is that infants gaze will follow an object of contingent behavior with or without a face. Another alternative is that an infants gaze will not follow an object of contingent behavior with or without a face. Another alternative is that infants…

Speech and song are both prevalent and important parts of infants lives yet the question of whether infants could in fact differentiate between speech and song and if they prefer one over the other had not been widely studied. Tsang, Falk, and Hessel, (2016) looked specifically at whether infants aged between six and ten months from English-speaking households can differentiate between native Russian speaking and native English speaking mothers speaking or singing. This was done by using five…

examine multiple cognitive abilities in infants such as object permanence (Charles & Rivera, 2009) and working memory (Cuevas et al., 2012). Reaching measures can examine similar infant cognitive abilities. The methods of Richmond et al. (2015) to explain infant spatial relational memory and Cuevas & Bell (2010) to compare looking and reaching performance in a working memory task will be discussed. Questions that arise ask what can each method tell us about infant cognitive ability and which…

best for their infants and try to take care of them sufficiently. However, taking care of infants is not an easy process to go through. Feeding babies is a significant process for taking care of babies that mothers should consider when having a new infant (1). Mothers can feed their infants by breastfeeding or formula feeding. However, breastfeeding is considered to be the optimal choice for feeding infants, and breastfeeding is better than formula feeding because it gives infants protection, it…

been copious amounts of research conducted on the study of infants and their development. One of the more prominent studies is the debate on whether or not babies learn to walk in stages or if these stages do not matter. Researchers Adolph and Robinson argue that infants do not follow a chronological series of events in order to begin walking. Infants have shown that they somewhat know the motions of walking because when an adult holds an infant and lets their feet rest upon a flat surface,…

There is something unique about infants and how they learn language. Starting from a young age, most infants begin to vocalize. As infant encounter more social interaction, it causes more babbling. Many people say that an infant's speech development is fairly similar to a birdsong. Birdsong is the vocalizations that birds make when communicating with each other. However, it appears that the structure of how they develop the skill is fairly similar to how infants do. Therefore, scientists…