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Growth spurts can start as early as 10 days after your baby’s birth.  Growth spurts usually are preceded by a sleepy, lethargic day and a big jump in appetite.  Growth spurts may happen again at 3, 6, and 12 weeks and again at 4 and 6 months.  If you begin to notice that your child is not as satisfied with the amount that you have been feeding her previously, then she may be beginning a growth spurt period.  If you are breastfeeding, you may want to add a feeding or two to satiate your baby’s appetite and to help increase milk production.

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Defining Child Abuse and Neglect

By Ron Huxley, LMFT

Child Abuse has been used to generically describe different types of child maltreatment, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, physical neglect, and emotional neglect. In general, child abuse is "any act of omission or commission that endangers or impairs a child's physical or emotional health and development." Physical abuse is any act, which results in a nonaccidental injury. An example of this might be unreasonably and severe corporeal punishment (spanking or hitting).

In 1974, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act defined abuse as any "physical or mental injury, sexual abuse, negligent treatment, or maltreatment of a child under the age of 18." This legislation also described abuse as any situation whereby children are actually harmed or threatened (The American Humane Association, 1986).

Children who are threatened with abuse refer to negligent situations. Negligent treatment or maltreatment occurs in situations where a person responsible for the child fails to provide adequate care for that child. General neglect refers to failure to provider food, clothing, shelter, or supervision. Severe neglect pertains to failure to protect a child from severe malnutrition or medically diagnosed "failure to thrive." Another example of severe neglect occurs where the person responsible for the child places the child in a situation where his or her person or health is endangered. This includes intentional failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical care.

Along with physical and negligent maltreatment comes emotional deprivation. This type of abuse has been referred to as 'abuse without scars.' It is defined as the deprivation suffered by children when their caretakers do not provide the normal experiences that produce the feelings of love, security, worth, and being wanted.

The final definition of abuse is sexual maltreatment. Perhaps the most widely publicized form of abuse, sexual maltreatment is defined as the involvement of dependent, developmentally immature children and adolescents in sexual activities that they do not fully comprehend or that violate social taboos of family roles.

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