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When Milena was 8 months old.
Q. How does your baby's eating, sleeping and motor development compare to the typical developmental patterns?
It’s recommended to give solid foods to an infant at 6 months of age, but in my child Milena’s case she only started to become interested in them at 8 months of age. Her pediatrician recommended that Milena should eat different types of foods that are taken from our family dinners. The Doctor also recommended to ground up our table food. After the physical exam it was concluded that Milena is advanced in both types of motor skills as compared to other 8 month old infants.
Milena is up more often then most infants as most babies sleep approximately 16-18 hours a day, and then only after; the sleeping amounts start to lessen as they grow older. Q. At 8 months of age was your child an "easy", "slow-to-warm-up", or "difficult" baby in terms of Thomas and Chess's classic temperamental categories? On what do you base this judgment?
In the terms of the categories in the structure of temperament my child would be considered “The easy child”. I base this judgment on the aspects that make up the easy child type. Milena adapts to new people and situations fairly easily and is already becoming comfortable enough to begin having constant routines.
Q. How is your child's attachment to you and your partner developing? What is happening at the 3-month and 8-month periods that might affect attachment security according to Bowlby and Ainsworth, and various research studies?
Milena has fun with my partner but definitely prefers me and is attached to me more so than my partner.
At 3 months of age when Milena was unable to sleep I would spend time with her until she became sleepy. I would go to her if she cried in the middle of the night only if her crying episode persisted longer than 10 minutes, and if I allowed her to self soothe she might not be as attached to me as she is. At 8 months I also stayed with her if she
Q. How does your baby's eating, sleeping and motor development compare to the typical developmental patterns?
It’s recommended to give solid foods to an infant at 6 months of age, but in my child Milena’s case she only started to become interested in them at 8 months of age. Her pediatrician recommended that Milena should eat different types of foods that are taken from our family dinners. The Doctor also recommended to ground up our table food. After the physical exam it was concluded that Milena is advanced in both types of motor skills as compared to other 8 month old infants.
Milena is up more often then most infants as most babies sleep approximately 16-18 hours a day, and then only after; the sleeping amounts start to lessen as they grow older. Q. At 8 months of age was your child an "easy", "slow-to-warm-up", or "difficult" baby in terms of Thomas and Chess's classic temperamental categories? On what do you base this judgment?
In the terms of the categories in the structure of temperament my child would be considered “The easy child”. I base this judgment on the aspects that make up the easy child type. Milena adapts to new people and situations fairly easily and is already becoming comfortable enough to begin having constant routines.
Q. How is your child's attachment to you and your partner developing? What is happening at the 3-month and 8-month periods that might affect attachment security according to Bowlby and Ainsworth, and various research studies?
Milena has fun with my partner but definitely prefers me and is attached to me more so than my partner.
At 3 months of age when Milena was unable to sleep I would spend time with her until she became sleepy. I would go to her if she cried in the middle of the night only if her crying episode persisted longer than 10 minutes, and if I allowed her to self soothe she might not be as attached to me as she is. At 8 months I also stayed with her if she