Milestones and Immunisations Flashcards
What is Child health surveillance?
- Important part of community
- Involves childhood screening
- Immunisations
- Delivers universal health promoting activities like childsmile
- Early interventions to address needs
When is Screening of a child done?
Previously done;
- 6-8weeks
- 8 months
- 2 years
- 3-4years
Now more targeted and opportunistic approach for child that needs more or less etc
What is involved in the screening process of a child?
- Check milestones
- Check vaccinations
- Deliver health promotion and health and safety
- Target supervision and interventions for risk groups
How is school used as a screening tool for a child?
- Personal social and emotional development tracked
- Physical development
- Communication skills including hearing and vision assessment (hearing aid or glasses provided before its lost completely perhaps)
What is important reminder for parents in regard to development milestones?
- Each child develops at own pace
- Don’t worry if child not hitting developmental milestone
What is the child expected to be able to do at 1 month old?
- Raise head from surface when lying on tummy
- Pays attention to someone’s face in their direct line of vision
- Moves arm and legs in energetic pattern
- Likes to be held and rocked
What is the child expected to be able to do at 2 months?
- Smiles and coos
- Rolls part way to side when lying on back
- Grunts and sighs
What is the child expected to be able to do at 3 months?
- Eyes follow moving object
- Able to hold head erect
- Grasps objects when placed in hand
- Babbles
What is the child expected to be able to do at 4 months?
- Hold rattle for extended period of time
- Laugh out loud
- Can sit supported for short periods of time
- Recognise bottle and familiar faces
What is the child expected to be able to do at 5 months?
- Reach for and hold objects
- Stands firmly when held
- Stretches out arms to be picked up
- Likes to play peek-a-boo
What is the child expected to be able to do at 6 months?
- Turns over from back to stomach
- Turn towards sound
- Sits with little support
- Reach out for things out of reach and grasp objects to bring to mouth
- Listen to own voice
- Crows and squeals
- Holds, sucks, bites cookie or anything and begin chewing
What is the child expected to be able to do at 7 months?
- Transfer object from one hand to other
- Sit for few mins without support
- Pats and smiles at image in mirror
- Creeps (pulling body with arms and kicking with legs)
- Shy at first with strangers
What is the child expected to be able to do at 8 months?
- Sit steadily for about 5 mins
- Crawls on hands and knees
- Grasps things with thumb and first two fingers
- Likes to be near parent
What is the child expected to be able to do at 9 months?
- Says mama or dada
- Responds to name
- Can stand for short time
- Able to hit two objects together on own
- Copies sounds
What is the child expected to be able to do at 10 months?
- Able to pull self up at side of crib or playpen
- Can drink from cup when its held