Maternal health

the first 3 years of a child’s life, which he described as the ‘critical period’ and he also explained that the attachment should not be broken within the first 5 years of a child’s life (referred to as the ‘sensitive period’) or this could lead to maternal deprivation. Bowlby…

Breastfeeding for New Mothers Imagine how it might feel to be a new mother who has decided to breastfeed her baby. There are so many thoughts and questions swirling around in her brain. Is she doing it right? Is the baby getting enough milk? Perhaps most importantly, how to hold and position the baby. These are just a few of the questions that as an expecting mother, I wonder about. Although breastfeeding is a natural process, each new mother will go through her own process of trial and error…

Reported short-term side effects of THC are sedation, lethargy, weakness, and poor eating habits. The authors of the interpretation of these results explain that exposure to THC in breastfed infants makes the infants have side effects, and lead to maternal…

There were 281 participants in this experimental study. Most of the participants were family or friends of students in a research methods class at Florida International University, and they were recruited through email, personal, or telephone request. One hundred ninety one participants were female (68%) and 90 were male (32%). They range from age 13 to 92 (M= 32.33, SD= 13.58). This included 63 Caucasian participants (22.4%), 56 African American participants (19.9%), 8 Asian participants (2.8%)…

conditions. Whenever the maternal representation is missing for the boys, the moon is always present, which highlights the loss of their mother, who is watching over them from the skies. Additionally, the author uses the moon to also foreshadow the reunion of the boys with their mother. On page 287, as the boys played, “the moon freed herself from the last field and looked evenly across as the imaginary ocean tragedy taking place so far inland”, which indicates the maternal presence from above…

"Oxytocin plays a role in maternal tendencies, feelings of social acceptance and bonding, and sexual gratification; also, oxytocin promotes behaviours that ensure the survival of the young". When a mother is nursing a child the action of sucking will trigger the release of oxytocin…

This assignment will describe and evaluate two theories in Developmental Psychology - specifically looking at attachment. The two theories that will be covered are Learning theory and Bowlby’s theory. Gross et Al (2009) defines attachment as a reciprocal, deep emotional bond between a child and the attachment figure that sets up the internal working template for all future attachments. Bailey et Al (2008) explain that although feelings may not be visible we can observe the conduct of the…

A research study carried out by Shaffer and Emerson (1964) discovered the sequence of baby’s attachment development. The study used 60 babies, the babies were studied from their homes in order to identify the development of attachment with their mothers or care givers in their first years. The researcher visited the babies’ houses once a month during a period of one year. They observed the interaction between the mother and their babies as well as they interviewed the mothers to be able to…

nature in which he mentions, “the fifty-second year if her age, vowed she had never behold a man without his coat…” (40-41). This small addition that Fielding includes in the passage introduces to the audience that Mrs. Wilkins has never been in a maternal position due to the fact that she has never seen a man without a shirt. Furthermore, the theme of Mrs. Wilkins’ prudishness continues in the way she addresses the infant as a “fellow-creature” and its mother a “hussy” (51,56). The emotions and…

There many differences in each culture that I have observe and each of the specific observation rase the affects of each baby development. I observer that the African parents are interesting. They make their baby go around places. The African parents let them explore they want. The African parent expose the baby with tremendous of bacteria, which is good because their immune response can kill off the bacteria. To make more interesting, the parents are now shaking the baby. The parents always…