Question

For this Assignment, you will examine an infant case study to determine short-term developmental outcomes.

Refer to the following Case Study about Sam, a male infant:

An infant male, Sam, was born to Jane and Roberto. Jane works in the city as a medical transcriptionist, but requested 12 weeks of family leave effective immediately upon Sam’s birth. Sam was born 6 weeks premature, by Cesarean delivery. His Apgar score at 1 minute was 5; after receiving oxygen, his Apgar score at 5 minutes was 8. Apart from the first few minutes after birth, Sam has not required oxygen or respiratory assistance. Because of his prematurity, Sam stayed in the hospital for 72 hours before he was discharged.

Jane drank occasionally throughout the pregnancy, but reported drinking most heavily during the last trimester of her pregnancy, which was about the time Roberto got laid off from his job. There is suspicion, although not confirmed, that Sam has Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Sam is a fussy eater, requiring short and frequent feedings. He has been home for 2 weeks and wakes up hungry every 2 hours. He does not sleep through the night.

Roberto and Jane live in a house in a rural area. They do not have a network of friends and family who live nearby who can help, but Jane’s mother has offered to move in with them temporarily. Roberto and Jane’s mother get along very well. Jane is debating whether she should reduce her family leave and go back to work earlier than she had planned.

Many of the details in the above case study have purposely been left ambiguous (e.g., ethnicity, geographic location, etc.) so that you can make some conjectures of your own and relate that to Sam’s short-term and long-term prognosis.

To prepare for this Assignment:

• Review the Learning Resources for this week and consider any environmental factors that might affect the infant’s development.
• Search the Internet and/or the library to find articles related to the case study that might support your findings.

Write a 2- to 3-page paper and include the following:

• Explain the environmental factors presented in the Case Study, as well as others that may be present but not specifically identified in the Case Study that might affect Sam’s development.
• With the environmental factors you explained, further explain what you think the best case scenario and the worst case scenario might be for Sam’s short-term developmental outcomes and explain why.
• Be specific, provide examples, and justify your response with citations from the Learning Resources/literature.

Support your Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this course. Use proper APA format and citations.

Answer 1

According to sam his mothers drunken habit effected him when he is in womb also environmental factors play a important role in prenatal development whatever is affecting to the mother will obviously tranfer to the child in the womb through placenta . As Jane was drinking in her last tri semester also because of the reason for the premature birth and the sam developmental delay which includes the way he move ,communicate,think,learn or behave with others .Developmental delay might be short or it might be the first sign of a long term problem example of long term developments are learning disabilities, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder.They take longer to develop new skills and also they need extra support. The main cause for this illness may be premeture birth of sam.sam and his family is living alone in a desert area so he cant interact more to others so the circumstances will be worse. The reason for his  Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is also caused by his mother which means as she has has a habit of drinking alchohol in the mothers blood passes to the baby through umbilical cord as we all know there is no known safe amount of alchohol diring pregnancy or when trying to get pregnant.As sam is leaving isolated he need to move to a new place to change his habits and it will be very helpful to his family also .