Ashford And Lecroy's Negative Impact On Infants

Failure to thrive is something that affects infants across a spectrum of parental and caregiving factors such as socioeconomic status and the ability to bond and provide for the infant. These factors can have an impact on the infant’s ability to thrive, but they are not the sole determining factor. Ashford and LeCroy define failure to thrive “occurring when a child’s weight falls below the 5th percentile for his or her age,” (2018, 2013, p. 151). This failure to thrive can have an impact on the infant’s developmental life span. These physical impacts can include growth deficits and a decreased resistance to infection (Ashford & LeCroy, 2018, 2013). These impacts can have a large impact on the infant in that smaller children can struggle
151). These personality problems can be mitigated if the infant and the family have access to interventions, which can be readily accessible to parents and caregivers (Ashford & LeCroy, 2018, 2013). These interventions seek to mitigate the effects of under socialization, possible parental learning opportunities and other assistance that would benefit both the infant and its family or caregivers. These programs include WIC and TANF, which are very popular programs in the United States regarding seeking assistance (Ashford & LeCroy, 2018, 2013). These intervention and assistance programs can make a huge difference in the infant’s growth and
These disabilities can pronounce themselves throughout the infant’s life depending on when they were diagnosed with a failure to thrive. These difficulties could be mild and treatable or they could range to more severe and untreatable depending on how long the infant was failing to thrive and what the reasoning behind the failure was. These developmental difficulties could extend throughout the infant’s entire life, and cause significant challenges in the individual’s everyday life. Sometimes the main indicator of developmental disabilities is the failure to reach academic developmental milestones that teachers and other educators are trained to notice that the parents may not catch. This poor academic performance could stem from the lack of socialization from other infants and children during their early years, or may also be a part of the lack of nutritional diet that the infant may have had that contributed to the failure to thrive diagnosis.
This is obviously not the sole reason for a failure to thrive diagnosis, nor is it always the parents’ or caregiver’s faults that the infant is not receiving enough nutrients. This lack of nutrients could be from when the infant is struggling or refusing to eat due to an illness or infection caused by the previously discussed