Anna's Development: Birth And The Newborn Baby

A woman’s experience of her pregnancy, labour and delivery process differs from female to female. Mother of three children, the eldest being 18, the second child being 16 and the last child being 5 years old; she has gone through three completely different challenges and insisted all three births had been the best events in her life, even with the associated complications of each. The participant, Anna, was asked to complete an interview based on her pregnancy of her eldest daughter. The questions being asked focused on the labour and delivery process, as well as the newborn, infancy, childhood and early teen stages of the child’s development. Anna’s real life pregnancy experiences will be compared and related to several concepts from the textbook
Labour and delivery methods are discussed in chapter 5: Birth and the Newborn’s Readiness for Life. Women who receive large amounts of anesthesia are frequently less sensitive to uterine contractions and do not push enough during the delivery. Anna felt like she was pushing hard enough but the obstetricians in the birthing room insisted that she had to push harder. This led to the baby having to be pulled out from the birth canal with obstetrical forceps. (Brockington, 1996). This may lead to cranial bleeding and brain damage. Fortunately, for Anna, her baby was perfectly fine and didn’t experience either complication. Anna was the one who experienced a third-degree tear, because of the
Anna’s child reached several physical milestones before other infants would. Her child was able to turn over, crawl, sit up, stand and walk relatively faster than the other children. Anna’s child displayed motor skills at an earlier stage than other infants her age; this can be shown by the child being able to roll over after 1 month when the normative age for this milestone is 4-5 months. Also, Anna’s daughter was able to crawl at 6 months when other children normally crawl around 9 months. She was also able to stand momentarily without any aid at around 9 months of age, while most children master this milestone between 12 to 14 months. (Bayley, 1993) “The maturational viewpoint describes motor development as the unfolding of a genetically programmed sequence of events where nerves and muscles mature” (Shirley, 1933). During the unfolding of sequence of events, the child then has control over their body and can perform these sequential motor skills. The behaviour demonstrated shows Anna’s baby was going through this exact developmental