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What are some examples of how culture influences caring for newborns and teaching parents about newborn care and characteristics?
Describe and contrast stages I, II, and III of lactogenesis.
1)Newborn care and safety;
Theses are the activates and precautions that are recommended for the New parents or caretakers.In many hospitals and birthing centres it is a educational goal.
Cultural and traditional practices , beliefs and values play important role in the medical attention seeking behaviour of postportum mother and the newborn babies during postnatal period.
Two cultural models of the child were identified;
The first centred around the infants 'Physical health and well being'. and supports the idea of a pediatric model stressing the importance of survival ,physical health,growth in order to protect the babies from mortal diseases and risk factors.
The second model concerned the early attainment of Personal and social autonomy ,which mother's tended to promote by fostering infants 'motor skills' and adaptability in terms of attending to multiple caregivers(eg ;teachers at nursary school).
Newborns;
They don't understand what is happening to them or realise they are a separate person.
They don't who is feeding or them or helps when they cry.
They can feel but they not think.
Cry when they are hungry or tired .
They smile by five to seven weeks.
Newborns is not capable of responding to you with any conscious purpose.
2)Lactogenesis - it the process of developing the ability to secrete milk.It also involves the maturation of alveolar cells of mammary glands.
Stages of Lactogenesis include
Stage I (secretory differentiation )
Begins in the mid-pregency to day two or three postpartum,the breast develops the ability to secrete milk , including the secretion of milk.
Stage II (secretory activation)
Begins on day two or day three postpartum until day eight,breast milk volume increases rapidly and then abruptly levels off.
Stage III(Galactopoiesis)
It is approximately from day nine postpartum and onwards,the volume of the brest milk produced is maintained through a supply and demand mechanism.
Stage IV(involution)
It occurs on an average ,40 days after the last breastfeed, when breast milk secretion cease.
3) Nurses and helath care providers regularly moniter the blood sugar levels and they control the sugar levels by prescribed insulin.
And also the nurses prescribe them to do test for blood glucose levels at home.
The nurses suggest the mother that infants sugar levels depends on you, so mother should take nutritious food and the infants blood sugar levels also monitored and treatment should be done.