Neonates and Birth :: Pregnancy Health Neonatal Essays

Neonates and BirthNeonates have no psychology. If operated upon, for instance, they are not supposed to show signs of trauma later on in life. Birth, according to this school of concept is of no psychological consequence to the newborn baby. It is immeasurably more important to his primary caregiver (mother) and to her supporters (read father and other members of the family). It is through them that the baby is, supposedly, effected. This effect is lucid in his (I will use the male form only for conveniences sake) ability to bond. The late Karl Sagan professed to possess the diametrically opposed view when he compared the process of cobblers last to that of being born. He was commenting upon the numerous testimonies of people brought back to life following their confirmed, clinical death. Most of them shared an experience of traversing a dark tunnel. A combining of soft light and soothing voices and the figures of their deceased nearest and dearest awaited them at the end of this tunnel. All those who experienced it described the light as the revelation of an omnipotent, benevolent being. The tunnel - suggested Sagan - is a rendition of the mothers tract. The process of birth involves gradual exposure to light and to the figures of humans. Clinical death experiences only recreate birth experiences. The uterus is a self-contained though open (not self-sufficient) ecosystem. The Babys satellite is spatially confined, almost devoid of light and homeostatic. The fetus breathes liquid oxygen, rather than the gaseous variant. He is subjected to an staring(a) barrage of noises, most of them rhythmical. Otherwise, there are very few stimuli to elicit any of his fixed action responses. at that place, dependent and protected, his world lacks the most evident features of ours. There are no dimensions where there is no light. There is no inside and outside, self and others, extension and main body, here and there. Our Planet is exactly converse. There could be no gr eater disparity. In this sense - and it is not a restricted sense at all - the baby is an alien. He has to train himself and to learn to become human. Kittens, whose eyes were tied immediately after birth - could not see straight lines and kept tumbling over tightly strung cords. Even sense data involve some modicum and modes of conceptualization (see Appendix 5 - The Manifold of Sense). Even lower animals (worms) avoid god-awful corners in mazes in the wake of nasty experiences.