Nutrition-Development-Womb Talk

Child receives essential nutrition from mother through placenta and umbilical cord. Transformation of embryo to fetus is very fast and magical evolutionary process, during which developing baby needs variable nutrients. If the baby’s developmental need is proteins, then the mother feels the ‘urge’ to eat more protein rich food. It is called ‘Dohale’ in Sanskrit meaning Do-Hrud, i.e. ‘Two-Hearts’. Baby in the womb develops nicely when parents/family members welcome it & rejoice in its arrival. The baby senses the emotions in the womb. Practically this can be communicated to the baby through ‘Womb Talk’ Womb Talk can be practiced by mother after getting trained under the guidance of an expert. At Brainberg we are engaged in such training sessions for pregnant women. It helps the pregnant women to overcome the challenges like mal-position of the fetus to Vertex (normal) position to facilitate safe delivery. We at Brainberg we make sure that the process of ‘carrying’ for the mother is smooth and enriching experience through the various ‘Pregnancy Care’ sessions we partake with the couples.

Infant: Development and Psychology

An infant or baby is the very young offspring of humans. A newborn is an infant who is within hours, days, or up to a few weeks from birth. In medical contexts, newborn or neonate (from Latin, neonatus, newborn) refers to an infant in the first 28 days of life (from birth up to 4 weeks after birth, less than a month old). The term infant is derived from the Latin word infans, meaning "unable to speak" or "speechless." It is typically applied to children between the ages of 1 month and 12 months; however, definitions vary between birth and 3 years of age. "Infant" is also a legal term referring to any child under the age of legal adulthood. Upon its entry to the air-breathing world, without the nutrition and oxygenation from the umbilical cord, the newborn must begin to adjust to life outside the uterus. Alert infant interested in surrounding objects and people Newborns can feel all different sensations, but respond most enthusiastically to soft stroking, cuddling and caressing. Gentle rocking back and forth often calms a crying infant, as do massages and warm baths. Newborns may comfort themselves by sucking their thumb, or a pacifier. The need to suckle is instinctive and allows newborns to feed. Newborn infants have unremarkable vision, being able to focus on objects only about 18 inches (45 cm) directly in front of their face. While this may not be much, it is all that is needed for the infant to look at the mother’s eyes or areola when breastfeeding. Depth perception does not develop until the infant is mobile. Generally, a newborn cries when wanting to feed. When a newborn is not sleeping, or feeding, or crying, he or she may spend a lot of time staring at random objects. Usually anything that is shiny, has sharp contrasting colors, or has complex patterns will catch an infant's eye. However, the newborn has a preference for looking at other human faces above all else. While still inside the mother, the infant could hear many internal noises, such as the mother's heartbeat, as well as many external noises including human voices, music and most other sounds. Therefore, although a newborn's ears may have some catarrh and fluid, he or she can hear sound from before birth. Newborns usually respond to a female voice over a male voice. This may explain why people will unknowingly raise the pitch of their voice when talking to newborns (this voice change is called motherese). The sound of other human voices, especially the mother's, can have a calming or soothing effect on the newborn. Conversely, loud or sudden noises will startle and scare a newborn. Newborns have been shown to prefer sounds that were a regular feature of their prenatal environment, for example, the theme tune of a television program that their mother watched regularly. Newborns can respond to different tastes, including sweet, sour, bitter, and salty substances, with a preference toward sweets. It has been shown that neonates show a preference for the smell of foods that their mother ate regularly.

Developmental Quotient (DQ) For Indian Infants- Assessment and Early Intervention

By assessing the Developmental Quotient of the baby we understand the various aspect of the Motor and Mental development happening in the baby. We get the set of records of the Motor and Mental Developmental Quotients of the baby. When as parents you go through some intervention program (e.g.: ISP) for your baby the Developmental Assessment Scale for Indian Infants brings forth the efficacy of the program by assessing the DQ of the baby. It also helps to understand and identify the delayed milestones occurring in the child. Thus the physician and the psychologist can plan out an effective intervention program for the baby to treat the cause accordingly. Age Group: The test can be performed on the babies from birth till 30 months. Abilities Evaluated: Body Control, Locomotion, Manipulation, Cognition, Memory, Social interaction, language Development & Manual Dexterity, Application: Assessment of Mental & Motor Development. Diagnosis & location of Delayed Development, Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Intervention program.

Pre- Conception Planning

When a couple plans to evolve as parents and start ‘thinking’ about child that is the time when the ‘baby’ is conceived at psychological level. Parent’s psychology and their surrounding greatly decide the ‘Personality’ of the unborn baby.

In our mythology it is been explained aptly in Sanskrit as ‘Putra-Kamesthee- Yagya’. Where Putra is Child, Kamesthi is Wish (desire) and Yagya is a special procedure. ‘Vision’ that the parent’s keep for their baby help in designing its personality.

This is what in terms of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and special sessions are taught to the parents when they visit Brainberg.

Weaning Diet for Baby

1) After successfully introducing the above diet one at a time, the mother has to decide and alternate the items as per the need and likings of the baby. 2) In sixth month add gruel of wheat and bhagar. 3) Subsequently start with white of egg and meat soup ( if you are comfortable with Non-veg diet) 4)In eight or ninth month the baby can partake most of the food cooked in the house for adults. Have a Happy Parenting experience! Jai Brahm.