MELISSAS BABY BOOK

MY MOMS PREGNANCY

• My mothers pregnancy was very exciting for her since I was her first child.
• She wasn't stressed or overwhelmed, she's just couldn't believe she was going to be a mom of a little girl.

MY NAME

• I was given the name Melissa, because my name means honey and bee's.
• My mom really loved honey and she thought bee's were so beautiful she named me after it.

OTHER NAMES?¿

• My dad really wanted to name me, Ileana, and tried to convince my mom to name me that but of course mothers always have the final say.

CHEMICAL EXPOSEDS TO?

• My mom wasn't exposed to any chemicals other then just the basic smog, gas and plastic.
• My mom usually ate organic and healthy.

LABOR

• My mom was in labor for about 80 hours. Yikes!

HOW I WAS BORN

• I was 6 pounds and 5 ounces.
• My length was 19 inches.

STRAIGHT OUT OF THE WOMB

BECOMING A TODDLER

• When I turned over I was about 5 months.
• I learned to sit up at about 6 months.
• I started crawling at 8 months.
• I started walking early, at 10 months.

BABY REFLEXES

• My first baby reflexes were sucking and opening and closing my eyes.
• ..... And then at a young age I realized I could climb door frames. And called myself spider women.

TEETH

GETTING POTTY TRAINED

• I started to officially use the little ladies room at 2 years.

LOOSING MY TEETH

• The two teeth I lost first were my front two teeth at the age of 1 and a half.
• I was running and had hit my mouth at the edge of a piano stool.

DEVELOPMENT AVERAGES

• The average tooth comes in at 6 months. ( I was a month late)
• The average for girls to be potty trained is 29 months. (I guess I became a lady 5 months early.
• The average kid looses their tooth at 5 or 6. (but I was a rebel and wanted a head start in life and knocked my teeth out at 1 and a half.

Untitled Slide

MYELINATION

• Myelination enables nerve cells to transmit information faster and allows for more complex brain processes.
• I might be affected when I'm learning and doing difficult things.

ASSIMILATION

• My first assimilation was with my cousin Micaela because we were a few weeks apart and we had the same culture and got along really well.

ACCOMODATION

• An accommodation is when I would use a pacifier to one that would be successful for sucking on a bottle.
• I didn't have an object permanence. ( I liked everything.)
• Egocentrism would be from ages 9 to now.

PUBERTY

• Puberty is when you go through the developmental process of going from a girl to a women.

Untitled Slide

Untitled Slide

FIRST WORD

• My first word was Luna.
• I was 11 months old.
• This was my first word because I loved and would always stare at the moon.

PHRASES

• I would say "Sheshe" a lot because my dad would call me that.
• He would call me that because it was a nickname for precious.

Untitled Slide

• Telegraphic speech is when you can't say a whole sentence but just the critical words are used.
• Over generalization is when kids use incorrect grammar to irregular cases where they don't apply.
• Overextension is when you use a word wrong to describe a wider set of objects or actions it's meant for.

LANGUAGE BARRIERS

• I did have a lot of stuttering and still do.

ATTACHMENT

• I was most attached to my dad because there was just a connection.
• Imprinting is when someone feels more for the baby than any one else. The theory does apply to me.
• I didn't have any object attachments.
• Contact comfort is when physical and emotional comfort that an infant receives from being in physical contact with its mother.

Untitled Slide

• No attachment effects are; distrust or no trust, unhappy, or uncomfortable, less loving.
• An example would be when my dad would leave for the weekend with his friends I wouldn't want to do anything.

Untitled Slide

• Method of childhood reading my parents used is authoritative, maintained high behavioral expectations, set limits and allowed natural consequences, and explained why certain rules were important rather than citing their authority on why I should obey.
• In adulthood, a person and their partner would be used to being attached to one another, that if one decide to have a kid, they're expectations would be let down once they actually take care of a baby. There would be less intimacy, and less contact. The baby would grow more on one parents than the other trough nurture. Young adults tend to go through this, and even older couples who unexpectedly had a baby at an older age.

Untitled Slide

Untitled Slide

• Sometimes when I'm tired and I take a nap, I take enough long enough to not know if it's the next day or not because I don't put an alarm clock.

MORAL DEVELOPMENT

• I think I'm at stage 5, the social-contract legalistic orientation.
• I'm at this stage because I have clear views, morals, values, and expectations.

TEMPORARY THEORY

• As a child I was high adaptability because I wouldn't mind about where I was and I would make the most of it.

STAGE #5 EGO IDENTITY VS ROLE CONFUSION

• I feel like I began this stage at the age of 16 because that's when I started to realize how hard it is to to be an adult and look after yourself. I think the biggest hurdle was realizing you can't rely on anyone and it's just going to be you picking yourself up after a hard day.

STAGE #6 INTIMACY VS ISOLATION

• I'm not old enough to have intimacy so right now I'm in isolation. But I believe intimacy is when you're comfortable to be intimate with another person and getting married and doing all that stuff that should be allowed after marriage.

MASLOW'S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

• I am at need for self-actualization. I'm at this point because I feel completely aware of everything that I need and I'm already on a path to a great future and I have back up plans incase my actual goals don't work out. Also because I feel like I have a healthy personality that allows me to grow personally.

THANKS FOR LISTENING