PRENATAL CARE & INFANT DEVELOPMENT

Pre Natal Development and care .

• Genes and chromosomes, conception.
• Signs and symptoms of pregnancy.
•  stages of pre natal development.
• Care of expectant mother.
• Overview of birth process.
• Birth complications.
• Environmental and hereditary factors influencing  prenatal development , genetic diseases, genetic counselling, hazards during prenatal period- signals and remedial measures.

Care of Neonate (0-4 weeks)

•       Normal new born and premature- Characteristics, problems of premature infant.
•       Post natal care of mother and child- minor ailments.
•       Reflexes in new born and their importance.
•       Adjustments of neonate.
•       Capabilities of neonate.
•       Immunization schedule- essential and non essential vaccines.

Infancy (0-2 years)

   Developmental tasks  and milestones of infancy

•  Physical and motor development, factors influencing infant’s development.
•  Language development- Components of language, acquisition of language ability, prelinguistic and linguistic speech, motherese, factors affecting language development

Socio-emotional Development- Concept of socialization

•      Theories of socio emotional development(one each)
•      Classification of emotions and their development in infancy.
•       Early Stimulation- Meaning and importance, methods of early stimulation.
•       Stages of infant attachment, stranger anxiety.

Methods of Human Study – Observations, interviews, questionnaires,

      experimental methods, projective techniques, clinical approach, sociometric techniques,  standardized tests longitudinal and cross sectional survey and case studies- Types, method of conduction, merits and  demerits