Why Proper Nutrition in Infants

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Diane Jaynes
Why Proper Nutrition?
Liberty University

Thesis Statement
Identifying and treating infants with Non-Organic Failure to Thrive that was brought on by poor adaptation and influencing parent behaviors, results in a more successful remedy with greatly improved outcomes for the child and family. Proper nutrition is essential for appropriate growing and development for infants and will have a substantial influence on the child’s health present and future.

Abstract:
Proper nutrition early in infancy is very important for the physical and emotional development of a child and issues can follow the individual into their adulthood. Physicians have put into place assessments that can be done on infants around 6-8 weeks and again …show more content…

If an infant is not getting proper nutrition, this can be the underlying cause for both failure to thrive and the developmental delays (Drewett, 2008). Slow weight gain has customarily been ascertained by comparing a baby’s weight with the percentiles of an indicated population (Drewett, 2008). An emphasis of age under the third percentile on a normal basis has been a universal standard for failure to thrive (Heffer, 2008). Robert Drewett in his research has conveyed that slow weight gain in excess of a period from birth to eight weeks is a more clear-cut forecaster for developmental delay than reduced weight gain throughout the rest of the first year, so in context to the infant’s behavioral development, sluggish weight gain in this initial phase is supplementary significant than sluggish weight gain later in the first year of life (Drewett, 2008). He also has stated in his research that to be able to detect failure to thrive commencing from the standard of weight gain throughout a period of time, that a recorded weight at six weeks make available the furthermost proper reference point weight and that failure to thrive is greatest assessed by considering weight alterations from six weeks until later in babyhood (Drewett, 2008).

Childhood autism feeding difficulties and complications can also advance to failure to thrive in young children (Keene, 2008). The etiology of feeding conditions in autism gives the

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