Human Development: Analysis of Newborn Child - Psychology Course, 2024

This report delves into the human development of newborn children, examining the experiences of parents and grandparents during pregnancy, childbirth, and the first year of life. The report analyzes the challenges faced, including birth complications, the stages of birth, and Cesarean deliveries. It also explores the social and emotional aspects of neonatal care, such as crying, soothing, bonding, and postpartum depression. The author highlights the differences in experiences between generations, noting that grandparents may have faced more severe challenges. The report utilizes the provided chapter from the textbook to draw conclusions about the impact of these experiences on the families studied. The report emphasizes the importance of understanding the challenges faced by parents and grandparents in the context of the newborn child's development.

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Reading chapter 3, “Birth of The Newborn Child” has equipped with the knowledge
about my parents’ and grandparents’ experience with pregnancy, childbirth, and the first year of
their child (children’s) life. In regards to what I know about your parents' experience with
pregnancy, childbirth and the first year of their child (children’s) life, this chapter 3 has made me
know that my parents have experience difficulties with birth and its cultural context. This has
been experienced through the process of birth which entails stages of birth and birth
complications and the Cesarean delivery. I have known that my parents have experienced
different kinds of danger and pain during pregnancy and child birth. The parents have also
experienced challenges during the first year of life of the children including social and emotional
aspects of neonatal care which entail crying and soothing, bonding as well as postpartum
depression.
In regards to what I know about your grandparents' experience with pregnancy, childbirth
and the first year of their child (children’s) life, I have also acknowledged that the experience has
been more or less the similar. However, I have realized that the challenges and difficulties
experienced by my grandparents’ were more pronounced than those experienced by my parents.
For instance, I have realized that my grandparents had experienced much more severe social and
emotional aspects of neonatal care manifested through soothing and crying and postpartum
depression. My grandparents also experienced birth complications more severely as opposed to
my parents.

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References
Arnett, J., Chapin, L., & Brownlow, C. (2018). Human development: A cultural approach.
Pearson Australia.