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Resource Plan for Abigail Ashcroft

By: Leah Jones and Haley Stout

Resource What it is/ Why Use it Where to find it/Items in the

Home
Sleeping While This resource is a website that Online:
Teething- Website covers various aspects of helping
baby sleep. There are various https://www.babysleepsite.com/baby
places that this site can take you, -sleep-comfort/baby-teething-sleep/
but with Abigail teething, we
have included the specific page
that provides many tips and
useful advice to help your child
stay on their sleeping schedule
while they are teething. The link
is the actual link to the baby
teething information page.

Baby Sleep Help This is a resource that is more Online:

for Parents- geared towards helping you to https://www.parents.com/baby/sleep
Website feel even empowered with /10-secrets-of-infant-sleep-coaches/
helping Abigail with sleeping, it
can be used to be a reassurance to
you. It can provide you with
comfort to some of those little
questions or uncertainties that
you mentioned about sleep
training Abigail. This resource
has useful tips about sleep
training, including how to sleep
train. The tips are written by baby
sleep coaches, and have
additional ideas to help you and
Abigail through sleep training!
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Baby Sleep- This is an interactive website that Online:
Website guides you through Abigail's https://www.babysleep.com
sleep by her age, going up to 36
months, so you can use use this
resource for a while! Each month
includes what to expect, the sleep
routine, night wakings, naps, and
sleep duration that is average for
that age. The home page also has
links to schedules and routines,
sleep problems, sleep safety,
sleep environment, naps, sleep
training, special population, so if
any more questions arise, there
are some more great resources!
Sleep Strategies for This article explains steps and Barker, R. (2001). SLEEP
you and you Child common patterns seen throughout STRATEGIES FOR YOU &
the baby’s development and can YOUR CHILD. ​Australian
give you ideas of what what you Parents​, 42.
can be expecting upon typical
development for infants. You
have asked for materials
regarding sleep when sick and
teething for infants. There are
additional strategies that you can
implement in your sleep routine
that you have for Abigail during
sickness or teething. This article
has some tips for helping Abigail
to get the best night’s sleep
possible in those times.
Lists of Baby Core Abigail is currently working on Online:
Strength strengthening her core to lead up
Exercises-Website to crawling and walking. To https://www.livestrong.com/article/2
continue to provide Abigail with 99657-exercises-to-strengthen-babys
additional help with core -abdominal-muscles/
strength, here is a website with
some exercises you can practice
with Abigail. By continuing to
strengthen her core as you have
been doing, you are better
preparing her for walking and
crawling.
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How to Support This resource is a website that Online:

Communication- suggests different support
Website strategies that you can use https://www.zerotothree.org/resourc
through different levels of es/302-how-to-support-your-child-s-
Abigail’s development of communication-skills
communication, in addition to
those strategies your family is
already using. You can integrate
some of these into your everyday
routine. It provides examples of
responses for parents to make to
their child as they make a certain
action or motion towards
something they want. This
resource is just an aid to use as
you are already using language so
well with Abigail regarding her
wants and needs.

Encouraging Gross You expressed a desire to Online PDF (print-out attached):

and Fine Motor continue to encourage healthy
Development development in the gross and fine http://www.ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Upl
Naturally - PDF motor domains. This PDF oads/Documents/Instruction-and-As
provides ways you can use the sessment-World-Class-Standards/Ea
environment to naturally rly-Childhood/Workforce/Strategies
encourage gross and fine motor ThatSupportChildrenInTheAreaOfP
development. For example, it hysicalHealthAndDevelopment.pdf
discusses how hallways can
really be utilized for walking and
also, as she gets older, bike
riding. It also provides safety
measures to consider for children
that are begin to become mobile
on their own.
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Steps Toward This resources includes: how Online:
Crawling- Website babies learn to crawl, how to https://www.zerotothree.org/resourc
support your baby’s crawling es/202-steps-toward-crawling
skills, what to avoid, when
should I worry, how to childproof
your home for crawling. We have
seen Abigails core and leg
strength really develop over the
last month and a half, as she is
not standing up along the couch
for minutes at a time. These tips
include some of the activities we
have done during intervention,
and some are some new ones that
you both can try out!
Teething These two resources go really Online:
Symptoms and well together. They list different https://www.parenting.com/article/g
Remedies- Website symptoms that Abigail may be uide-teething-symptoms
experiencing, and different tactics Online:
you can try out to help her https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/teet
through it. You can use them to hing.html
cross reference if you do have
any questions about if those
symptoms are matching up. The
websites also include a timeline
for when different teeth come in,
ways to soothe the pain, what
they generally recommend to not
try, when to call the doctor, and
different ways to care for
Abigail’s teeth.

Transitioning to You had asked for possible tips Online:

Solid Foods- and help for when the time comes
Website to begin to transition Abigail https://www.healthychildren.org/En
from liquids to solid foods. This glish/ages-stages/baby/feeding-nutrit
website provides information ion/Pages/Switching-To-Solid-Food
about: signs that you child is s.aspx
ready to start the transition, how
to feed them with solid foods in
the beginning (little techniques
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on how to use a spoon), what
foods to begin the transition with,
and then the steps following this
initial transition. This site also
provides videos for examples of
the methods of feeding.

Reading With Abigail has been making many Online:

Baby Strategies- different utterances and she loves
Website to read books with you. We see http://www.readingrockets.org/articl
this through how comfortably she e/reading-tips-parents-babies
uses a book and turns its pages.
We have included a website
resource that provides tips for
reading with your baby that you
can incorporate in the time you
all spend together reading. There
are just additional little bits of
information that can become a
more common part of your
reading time. As you continue to
have more meaningful reading
opportunities with Abigail like
your family is already doing, you
are introducing her to more
language and encouraging her
language production.