The effect of prenatal alcohol exposure Scientific Writing June 2010 The effect of prenatal alcohol exposure Introduction: Alcohol is a drug with a depressant effect. Alcohol can negatively affect your brain‚ liver‚ central nervous system‚ and heart. The immediate effects of alcohol consumption are delayed reflexes and slurred speech. Since it is a depressant‚ alcohol slows down your
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Alexis Incantalupo Child Psychology DSL Prenatal Advice Professor Guallini 2/5/13 Congratulations on your first baby! This means that your husband’s sperm cell has successfully fertilized your egg cell! I understand that you are worried about potential problems throughout your pregnancy. Pregnancy can be a nerve-racking experience for any first time parent. These parents may worry about something going wrong while carrying a child such as the baby’s health‚ or they may worry about something
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Identify the teratogens covered in this chapter and birth defects/disorders they can cause. Format your response as though you were giving a brief prevention lecture to young married couples. Your answer should be no fewer than 400 words in length. We are all aware of genetic and hereditary factors that may impact the health of the newborn baby. However‚ our ability to prevent genetic disorders is limited to genetic testing of parents and prenatal diagnostic methods that can reveal early warning
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improve our growth all the way from prenatal to late adult lives. As a developmental psychologist‚ I am aware that humans go through four main stages in our lives: Prenatal‚ Childhood‚ Adolescence‚ and Adulthood. Each stage functions differently so it’s imperative to know how we can improve every stage. The first stage is prenatal. A strategy I would share with the mother to help develop her child while it is in the womb is to increase her knowledge in child development. It is important to understand
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impact to shape a prenatal development. The first argument that I have that I believe that nurture has a bigger impact on prenatal development is that while the mother is pregnant depending on her surrounds and the situation she lives in can affect her meaning if she does any type of drugs that can affect the development. The second argument is that is the mother living a healthy lifestyle meaning a well-balanced diet that can be very beneficial for the child during that development stage. And the final
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Factors and Hazards of Infant Development Pregnancy is a very momentous occasion in a woman’s life. I have yet to experience the miracle of being pregnant‚ but I could only imagine the various thoughts and emotions that run through a mother-to-be’s head. In the midst of all the excitement that comes with planning for a new baby‚ parents tend to forget how important maternal health is for prenatal development; The three factors or hazards I feel that are the most important for parents to understand
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Teratogen Affects on Pregnancy Oct 9‚ 2010 Textbook References: Chapter 2 Teratogens: Drugs- smoking p 50 Part II Chapter 2 Teratogens: Drugs- behavioral problem w/smoking p 51 Part II Chapter 2 Teratogens: Drugs- Child Behavioral Problems w/drinking p.52 Part II Chapter 2 Teratogens: Drugs- FAS p 51 Part II There are many potential
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Exposure to teratogens can have an impact on the developing fetus‚ the later child‚ and the adolescent. Some Teratogens are environmental influences that harm fetal development (Berk‚2008). They come from a variety of external influences that include mother’s nutrition‚ medications‚ Stress of the mother‚ pollutants‚ injury‚ disease or illness. These environmental influences impact fetal growth. Teratogens are not the only cause of birth defects. Genetics also play a role in fetal development and both
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Factors affecting Prenatal Development The elaborate details of life begin with a single cell that develops into a full term fetus within approximately 40 weeks‚ 280 days or 10 lunar months. The course of this pre-natal development is divided into three main periods: germinal‚ embryonic‚ and fetal. In order to have a healthy baby at the end of the term‚ there are a few factors which have to be kept in mind by the mother. 1. Maternal nutrition Fetus gets the nourishment from maternal blood
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Prenatal Development • In the life span development the shortest is the period of the newborn or infancy • This period‚ which begins at conception and ends at birth‚ is approximately 270 to 280 days in length or nine calendar months. • How life begins? o New life begins with the union of male sex cell and female sex cell. o These sex cells are developed in the reproductive organs‚ the gonads. o Male gonad is “testes” and female gonad is “ovaries” o Male sex cell is referred as “spermatozoon”
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