https://padlet.com/jganbarg1/bu3636cpg9qs Made with the help of playful babies :)) en-us 2019-11-08 06:15:13 UTC 2025-10-18 12:15:32 UTC hello@padlet.com jganbarg1 https://padlet.com/jganbarg1/bu3636cpg9qs/wish/408499623 Throughout the wonderful half-hour that was the baby lab, I was able to observe so many of the amazing developmental milestones that we have been going over in class. Some of the most prominent developmental milestones that I was noticing were those observations having to do with gross and fine motor skills. When it came to observing gross motor skills, I definitely saw that with Olivia, who was only around eight weeks old, she was starting to be able to hold her head up for a few seconds at a time when placed in the prone position. Also with Olivia, we could see how she had some of the primitive reflexes such as the ATNR. When Olivia's mother placed her in the supine position and her head turned a little, it was amazing how instantaneously she went into the ATNR. Another observation that I had with gross motor skills cam from Thorin, who's skills were much different than Olivia's, as he was 13 months old. For infants, even one or two months apart can make significant differences when it comes to development. Thorin was able to perfectly walk with assistance as his mom held his hands over his head and moved around the mats. Thorin was also able to stand alone for a few seconds before falling onto his behind. Also, Thorin was able to get himself to a surface and pull himself up. Both Olivia and Thorin were where they are "supposed" to be developmentally in terms of gross motor skills when it comes to their chronological age. 

In terms of fine motor skill development observation, I saw many of the younger babies grab objects with their thumb inside their hands, showing early signs of fine motor skill development, while some of the older infants grabbed objects in a perfect 3-jaw chuck. For some of the younger babies, you could see that their motor development was still on the ulnar side of their hands, meaning they hadn't fully developed yet, as full fine motor development is when the infant uses the radial side of their hands. ]]> 2019-11-08 06:18:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jganbarg1/bu3636cpg9qs/wish/408499623 jganbarg1 https://padlet.com/jganbarg1/bu3636cpg9qs/wish/408503443 One of the really cool observations that came from the baby lab, was hearing the different levels that the babies were at when it came to language. When it came to the little, little ones, who were only two-three months old, they did a lot of mini cries to get their mother's attention and little sounds came out, such as cooing, when they were being talked to by one of us or by their caretaker. For instance, Oliva, who was only eight weeks old, would give little cries out for when she wanted different things. When she was on the floor in supine position, she was looking around, and all of a sudden started crying, which her mom immediately knew that she was hungry and ready to eat. This shows how babies have different kinds of cries that their parents will get used to and automatically know what the baby needs when they let out a certain cry. 

However, when it came to Thorin and Felix, Thorin being 13 months and Felix being around 12 months, their development in language was much greater than the little ones, such as Olivia. Thorin and Felix were able to make lots of different sounds and say "mama." While their language was not the most proficient, it was clear that they could understand at least the message of what their moms were saying when talking to them, which moves into cognition development, but also shows huge strides when it comes to the category of language development. ]]> 2019-11-08 06:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jganbarg1/bu3636cpg9qs/wish/408503443 jganbarg1 https://padlet.com/jganbarg1/bu3636cpg9qs/wish/408506187 When it comes to cognitive development, one is able to look at Piaget's Substages of Sensorimotor Development to categorize where an infant falls within the spectrum of cognitive development. For instance, for babies between 12 and 18 months old, they are in the beginning of invention new behaviors for themselves. In this stage, babies start to display trial and error experimentation. This could be seen in the baby lab, when Gloria, who is 15 months old, walked over to her mom's shoes, put her foot in the shoe, and started to waddle on over to her mom, surprisingly not falling over as she was walking. Gloria had no idea what to expect when she first put on her mom's shoe, so she experimented with going faster, slower, walking backward, and forwards. As she began to realize that she wasn't going to fall, she went back to the other shoe and put it on her other foot, while taking the first shoe off of her first foot. She was portraying a lot of trial and error experimentation while exploring how her tiny feet interacted with the big shoes. Gloria was perfectly displaying what a 15-month-old should be doing in terms of cognitive development. 

In contrast to Gloria, Olivia, who was only less than 2 months old, was still understanding her environment through her reflexes, such as the palmer grasp, the ATNR, and the Moro reflex when she was startled. She was also starting to be able to coordinate sensations and new knowledge while repeating actions that are pleasurable. I observed that Olivia liked to place her arms a certain way when in the supine position. Every time that her mom would put her in a different position and then back in supine, her arms would go back in the same exact positions. One could infer that Olivia found pleasure in how her arms were situated in the supine position and continued to do so because of that. ]]> 2019-11-08 07:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jganbarg1/bu3636cpg9qs/wish/408506187