Child Development: Prenatal and Neonatal Development

According to the learning materials learned from the course, even though the mother's body shape did not change significantly during the first three months of pregnancy at the first stage of pregnancy, as the respondents mentioned, the mother reported symptoms of pregnancy I started to feel it. Vomiting, forgetfulness. In the fetal period, the fetus starts exercising within 12 to 16 weeks (Levine & Munsch, 2013). However, compared with the teaching materials, the respondents felt for the first time that the fetus interacted with her for 19 weeks.

Prenatal development is a process that takes place within 40 weeks of the birth of a child. Prenatal development has three stages. Hair growth, embryo, fetus. Prenatal development is also divided into three identical 3 months, but this does not correspond to 3 stages. The first semester ends at the end of the fetal period, the second semester ends at week 20, and the third term ends at birth. The germination period is the developmental stage from conception to 2 weeks (implantation). This concept occurs when a sperm fertilizes an egg and forms a fertilized egg. Fertilized eggs begin with a single cell structure that occurs when sperm and ova combine. At the moment of the conception, the DNA of the mother and father is transmitted, and at this point the genetic composition and gender of the future fetus are determined.

You may think that child development begins in infancy, but prenatal time is considered an important part of developmental process. Prenatal development is a time of important change that will help to lay the foundation for future psychological development. The brain develops during the prenatal period, but continues to experience more changes during early childhood, within a few hours after conception the single cell fertilized egg begins to descend from the fallopian tube towards the uterus. It will start the process of cell division and growth. Through the process of mitosis, fertilized eggs are first divided into two cells, which are then divided into 4, 8, 16, etc. Many fertilized eggs never exceed the initial part of cell division, and half of the fertilized eggs will survive within two weeks.

Developmental stages are prenatal, infantile and early childhood, early childhood, childhood and adolescence. A wide range of theories on children's development appeared in the 17th century and John Rock's "thinking about education" (1693) formed the foundation of the birth of a child as "a state of blank paper". In contrast, "Emile" (1762) of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is exploring the morality of the birth of a child. These two theorists provide the origin of general development.