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Response 5 - Sleep Challenges - Explain and Support these families.

Response 5 - Sleep Challenges - Explain and Support these families.

Q Having completed the readings and watched the video (s), put your knowledge of sleep to work. Choose 1 of the scenarios below. You can identify your role with the family or keep it general. Reply to a classmate. 1. Use information from the websites, videos and other readings to help explain the child's behavior with a developmental lens. Your explanation should explain both the behavior in the scenario and more detail about the age group in general. What is typical? Is there anything atypical in the scenario. How much sleep does a child of that age need? Support with information from course. 2. Use the websites, other course resources on canvas or an additional source to develop safe, healthy, culturally sensitive strategies. You have done a wonderful job of building relationships with these families and they all WANT your help. Utilize the American Academy of Pediatrics Healthy Children Website or the National Sleep Foundation as an additional resource 3. You need to cite at least 3 of the resources in the module - the readings from the course texts, the video, website, etc. You need to support your explanation and strategies with information from the course. Infant: You are working with the family of a newborn infant (4 weeks). This is the family's first child. The parents are exhausted. The mother is breastfeeding and the child is gaining weight. She sleeps 2-3 hours at a time. The parents attended child birth classes but did not have a lot experience with babies before their own. They are getting advice from relatives including to let the baby cry it out, put the baby in the car seat to sleep, and more. They have looked at some websites, but are overwhelmed and not sure how to proceed. Preschool: 4 year old Micah is energetic at school and disruptive during classroom routines. During circle time, he lays down in the middle of the group and rolls around often kicking children. He goes to speech twice a week. He becomes more disorganized as lunch approaches. His teachers think he is tired and started inviting him in 5 minutes early so he could start lunch in a quieter space and be the first to his cot. His teachers have been creative in placing his cot and after about 6 weeks found a routine that works for him most days. He needs a teacher nearby at nap, a heavy blanket and at least 3 rounds of the song, "You Are My Sunshine." Otherwise he is jumping on his cot and throwing toys. Once he falls asleep, he sleeps almost 2 hours with audible snoring. His mother has expressed trouble getting him to sleep at home and reports he often falls asleep with the Ipad. He doesn't seem to really have a bed time or routine. 2nd grader, Jimena, is home due to the COVID 19 school closures. Usually she goes to bed at 8 and sleeps through the night. The family routine is different and that has affected meal times, bed times and other parts of her day. Her parents are struggling with a family routine and she is having a lot more screen time than usual. She is going out in the back yard with her younger brother to play. When in session, her school has daily PE and she does dance as part of her after school program. She is generally an active, social girl. She is now staying up as late as 11 . She has always been an early bird and is till getting up by 7. She is getting up in the night with bad dreams and wanting to sleep in her parents bed. (There is a google folder on Canvas with additional COVID resources and LOTS of information on line).

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To help the infant’s behavior with a developmental lens, we need to first understand the sleeping pattern of the infant. This would further help to find out what is typical or atypical in the scenario. In this scenario, the parents are having a tough time with their infant to get him to sleep. This is the first time they are experiencing parenthood, therefore, they know not much about how to handle their child and take advice from their relatives regarding sleep, and crying. A four-week child should sleep for 14-17 hours.