quantitative change in Child's body

1. CHILD’s GROWTH

2. DEFINITION
• GROWTH
• The term growth denotes a net increase in the
size, or mass of the tissue.
• It is a quantitative change in the child’s body.
• It is largely attributed to multiplication of cells
and increase in the intracellular substance.
• It can be measured in Kg, pounds, meters, inches, ….. etc

3. Growth Patterns
The child’s pattern of growth is in a head-to-toe
direction, or cephalocaudal, and in an
inward to outward pattern called
proximodistal.

4. Physical Growth

5. • Lose some after birth
• 1-2 lbs./month 1st 6 months
• 1 pound/month in 2nd 6 months
– Birth weight:
• Doubled by 6 month
• Tripled by 1 year
• 20-22 lbs.: average weight of 1 year old
– Heredity, feeding habits, and physical activity
Weight

6. • Avg newborn =20 inches
• Avg 1 year =30 inches
• Heredity: influences height more than
weight
Height

8. Stages of growth

9. Different stages of growth
• There are stages of
growth that a child goes
through.
• Infancy
• Early childhood
• Childhood
• Late childhood

10. Infancy
• Infancy- from birth to 18th months
• Physical changes
• Bones are still soft and flexible
• Learns to sit, to crawl, to stand and to
sit.
• Mental changes
• Gets what it need by crying
• Can recognize parents and siblings

11. Early childhood
• 18th month to 3 years
• Physical changes
• Learns to walk and to talk
• Arms and legs get longer
• Mental changes
• Social changes
• Not ready to share or to play
interactively with others

12. • 3 to 6 years
• Physical changes
• Begins to lose milk teeth
• Learns to behave while in a group
• Social changes
• Learns to play interactively and to
make friends
• Emotional changes
• Physical contact becomes less frequent
Childhood

13. Late childhood
• Physical changes
• Appetite increases
• Process of sexual maturity begins
• Acquires high-level thinking skills
• Emotional changes
• Self-centeredness lessens