Question

 

Age	Toddler 1- 1year 11 months	Toddler 2 - 2 year 3 months
Height (birth)	51CM	51CM
Weight (birth)	2.6 KG	2.80KG
Height (Current)	93CM	95CM
Weight (current)	11.5KG	13KG

 

1. A description of the infant’s daily routines, capturing all of the special milestone that they achieved, for example, their first smile, etc…

 

2. A comparison of the infant’s birth weight and height against the infant’s current weight and height.

 

3. An explanation on how the figures showing the infant’s height and weight informs you of the infant’s health and wellbeing.

 

4. In one to two paragraph, compare and contrast the differences between the two toddlers in your table and provide a recommendation on the importance of providing good and healthy life for the child.

Answer 1

A.) 1 month - start responds to sounds,stares at bright colors

2 months - vision follows moving objects

3 months - starts giggling,attain neck control, social smile

4 months- makes cooing sound,grasps a toy

5 months- rolls over abdomen, stranger anxiety

6 months - rolls in both direction from abdomen to back and from back to abdomen , sits with support

7 months -child crawls and creeps

8 months- pimser grasp

9 months- stands with support

10 months - walks with support

11 months- stands without support

12 months - takes few steps without support

B. Birth weight of the baby - 51 cm

Birth height of the baby - 2.6 kg

Current baby weight- 11.5 kg

Current baby height - 93 cm

Height of the child is increased by the time of development and is about 85 % of double the height of the babys birth hieght.

And considering the weight , the pesent child wieght is the triple the weight of the birth weight.

C. Current weight of the child is 11.5 kg

Current height is 93 cm

The normal growth of the child at one month will shows average hieght increase at the stages of 3 wks ,6 wks, 3 months, and 6 months . The hieght increase depends on many factors such as parental inheritence , genetics, nutritional factors etc....

When considering the weight gain of infant is as follows:

At early weeks the baby weight will reduce upto 10 % of the birth weight.

At 1 month about 1 pound weight will be increased

At 6 months the body weight will become the double of birth weight. At each month average weight increase will be about 1 pound/ month.

At 1 year the childs wieght will be thrice the birth weight

So baby is healthy right now and the ratio of height and weight is normal .

D. Birth weight of infant -2.6 kg    Birth hieght of infant- 51 cm current hieght of infant- 93 cm current weight of child - 11.5 kg

Birth weight of toddler - 51 cm birth hieght of toddler - 2.80 kg current hieght of toddler- 95 cm current wieght of toddler- 13 kg

While comparing the two children the first baby is having the normal growth ratio when comparing hieght and weight. But the second child is having malnutrition because of decreased body weight gain.

For attaining more health to child , the advise is that the child must be provided with more nutritious food and protein rich food and calorie rich food to ensure the food is essentially utilized while child sctivity, . The diet should contain increased intake of milk , egg, boiled banana etc...