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Active Baby: 7. Recognize and provide for individual differences. Temper the task to the child's ability. If the learning task is too difficult, he will give up and turn his attention to other things. Learning takes place when a child feels a need and recognizes that the knowledge and skill to satisfy it are within his power to acquire.
8. Try to do things with the baby, not to him. Wait for him to take part in an activity. For example, when you pick up a tiny baby, slide your hands under him, then wait until he curls up a little as an adjustment to being lifted. Let him be active baby rather than passive.
9. Enjoy the baby. Try not to be so careful and troubled about many details that you cannot enjoy him as well as love him.
It is not known exactly why a baby is born at a particular time. It is known, however, that just before the start of childbirth there is a withdrawal of the substances that have been exerting an inhibitory influence on the muscles of the uterus throughout the pregnancy. Once these substances are no longer produced, the uterine muscles become active baby and start the process of expelling the baby. These contractions of the uterine muscles are known as labor pains, and as childbirth progresses they become more frequent and more painful.
CHILDBIRTH is the process by which a baby is expelled from the uterus, or womb, through the vagina to the outside world. Normally, a baby is born about 38 weeks (266 days) after it is conceived. In some cases, however, the baby may be born after only 26 weeks, and in others it may taJce as long as 41 weeks. Generally, if a baby is born before 35 weeks after conception, it is considered to be premature. |
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