Understanding Infantile Colic: An Integration of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Factors
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Authors
Kraus, Shelley J.
Issue Date
2000
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
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Abstract
Ameliorating the experience of colic for both infants and parents is of great priority to
pediatricians and parents. To search for a single condition to explain the development of
colic is futile in its simplicity. Factors intrinsic to the infant and factors extrinsic to the
infant are interdependent in the creation of the conditions that are likely to bring about
the symptoms of colic infants who are prone to them. The mother-infant dyad is
discussed at great depth because it is within that context that the colic occurs. Parents
can be taught by the infant's pediatricians how to familiarize themselves with the infant's
particular cues and what responses are most appropriate at what times. Colic should not
"just be waited out" because it is an indication that there remains room for improvement
in communication between mother and infant.
Description
iv, 25 p.
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Publisher
Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College.
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