Baby Room Research Articles

Prototype Smart Baby’s Room Berbasis Iot Di PT Ozami Inti Synergy Untuk Orang Tua Sibuk

This research aims to design and develop a prototype of the Smart Baby's Room based on the Internet of Things (IoT) at PT Ozami Inti Synergy,as a solution for busy parents. This tool is designed to monitor baby's condition and surrounding environment in real-time through a mobile application. Key features include monitoring temperature, humidity, air quality, as well as sound and motion detection of the baby. Data from these sensors is transmitted to an IoT platform, allowing parents to receive notifications and remotely monitor the conditions remotely. This implementation is expected to improve baby's safety and comfort, as well as providing peace of mind for parents who cannot always be at home. parents who cannot always be at home. This prototype was tested to ensure its reliability and effectiveness in a controlled environment.

‘Dissensus’ and the emergence of activist leadership in the baby room of UK early childhood settings

In the context of a chronically under-funded and fragmented Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector in England, there is an urgent need for models of leadership that emphasise action and advocacy. In the baby room, where pay, conditions and status are at their lowest, this is particularly the case. In this article, building on the model of activist leadership put forward by Woodrow and Busch, we consider ‘dissensus’ as a foundation for activist leadership among baby room leaders working in English nurseries. Dissensus is the willingness to express and explore differences, disagreements and tensions. In gathering the perspectives and experiences of 15 baby room leaders, we identified three threads of dissensus which we consider in this article: (1) the desire for baby room educators’ contributions to be recognised as more than ‘just care’, (2) feelings of resentment around being overlooked and undermined by ECEC colleagues outside of the baby room and (3) questions around pay and conditions in the baby room. We consider these threads of dissensus as a potential starting point for activist leadership in the baby room.

Baby cry-sensitive armband design for parents with hearing loss

This study was carried out to design an armband for parents with hearing impairment or hearing loss. The main purpose of the study is to design a warning system by taking advantage of the distribution of sound at different intensity values and analyzing the quiet environment, speech sound and baby crying sounds in the propagation area. Sound analysis is carried out by collecting the data within the scope of the study and a vibration warning system is developed based on the analysis. Data is sent from the radio in the baby's room to the parent's armband via radio frequencies. The changes in sound data for a total of 20 seconds were analyzed. Based on these changes, it was determined that the amplitude of the silent environment was 600 delta, the speech sound environment was in the range of 1300-1600 delta and the baby crying sound could reach up to 1650 delta and above. it is seen that the speech sounds exhibit an increase of approximately 75% compared to the silent environment, while the changes in the baby crying sound increase by 102.5% compared to the silent environment. These increases indicate that the system can work effectively in wearable technologies.

How to set up an inspirational and cosy baby room in a nursery

Ann Yates, owner/product developer at Millwood Education discusses what staff should prioritize to create a baby room that allows infants to develop emotionally and physically, as well as start building communications skill and learning about the world while feeling safe and secure.

A mobilisation of motherhood, babyhood and childhood sensing pasts: Life diaries as creative and speculative force of experimentation

In recent years, the theoretical lens of new materialism(s) and surge in feminist thinking has opened up new ways of understanding the complexities of motherhood, babyhood and early childhood. This surge in post-qualitative and feminist inquiry towards the troubling of dominant early childhood abstractions and norms, as well as resistance to human-centric perspectives offers new possibilities to engage both ethically and politically in an affirmative exploration of motherhoods, babyhoods and early childhoods. Through communicating the methodological nuances in two early childhood physical spaces this article is a (re)assembling of the fibrous, slippery and friable fragments of an earlier inquiry. The first of these spaces was a baby room in an Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) setting in the United Kingdom (UK), and the second was Higher Education (HE) Undergraduate (UG) Early Childhood Studies (ECS) teaching and learning environments, again in the UK. There were also a number of virtual, past and present, material, ephemeral and ethereal research sites that seem disparate, yet connected. The transversal methodology held bodies in the middle of the research, allowing things to creep in and creep out. A mobilisation of motherhood, babyhood and childhood sensing pasts produced neologisms, such as mothersick, Bowlb(arbar)ian and (gh)host(ile)(ly) which conjure transversality and spacetimemattering in all that I do in the HE ECS classroom and ECEC environments. Memories, histories and (her)stories – severed encounters shared and assembled. Cuts that brought pain to the surface(s) and bodies become ambiguous, unnerving, raw and exposed. Through the article, it is argued, powerful psychological developmental theories that reverberate through human and nonhuman bodies haunt student and pedagogue bodily knowledges and histories. It is suggested that ethically, HE pedagogues have a duty of care to think beyond the immediate teaching and learning classroom and consider how we touch the lives of UG ECS students, in unknown but often imperceptible and sensed ways.

The everyday advocacy work of the baby room leader

There is a growing body of literature on leadership and leadership development across the early years sector. Early years leadership research has so far tended to focus on positional leadership demonstrated by setting managers or preschool room leaders. There is a notable gap in the understanding of the role of the baby room leader, leading practice for children from birth to two, and how leadership can be developed in this specific context. Drawing on a design workshop with baby room leaders and nursery managers, as well as five follow-up semi-structured interviews with baby room leaders, this article offers an insight into the role of the baby room leader, with a particular focus on everyday advocacy. It presents four advocacy themes in baby room leadership: (1) highlighting and understanding the impact of baby room practice; (2) sharing a passion for working with babies; (3) advocating professional development specific to the baby room; and (4) challenging the discourses and stereotypes surrounding those who work in the baby room. These themes represent both current realities in baby room leadership and opportunities for future development and mobilisation.

We need to make sure our baby room staff members are adequately trained

To ensure the safety and wellbeing of babies it is essential to make sure that sufficient staff members are trained, and that the training is high quality.

On cue

In the baby room, what should practitioners be looking out for to guide their interactions, asks Meredith Jones Russell

On the go!

In the first of this four part series Meredith Jones Russell explores the challenges and rewards of working in the baby room and discovers it is a very special place

Babysong revisited: communication with babies through song

AbstractThe Babysong Project arose out of the Baby Room Project and its aims included supporting baby room practitioners to develop ‘communicative musicality’ (Malloch & Trevarthen 2009), extending research knowledge about baby room practices and helping practitioners to explore opportunities to question and adapt their own ways of working with babies in their care. Six years on, we reflect on the project and consider the significance and sustainability of what might have been achieved. We also probe whether there are further areas for development. We conclude that while there were many positive outcomes, we recognise the challenges of sustaining and nurturing the confidence of practitioners and the desirability of addressing the organisational aspects of the initiative to promote the embedding of practice. There is a real necessity for such projects, often involving radical challenges to previously held attitudes and practices, to be funded over longer periods of time. We also acknowledge the rich, untapped potential of using song to connect with families and carers.

Early years leadership qualifications: part 1: Baby brains

In the first part of a new series on leadership qualifications, Charlotte Goddard focuses on the role of baby room leader

What works?

The value of a high-quality early years environment is central in supporting early communication and language. Julie Kent explores this from the baby room to the outdoors.

Parental decision-making for a baby room in daycare centres: conceptions, motivations and influential factors

ABSTRACT This exploratory study aims to explore and analyse the process of parental decision-making for baby rooms in daycare centres, within the Portuguese context of early childhood education and care. The theoretical framework is based on the accommodation model. Methodologically, the research is based on a qualitative and interpretative approach involving data collection through a focus group discussion, with seven parents who decided to enrol their babies, in baby rooms of seven non-profit daycare settings. The findings and discussion show that parental decision-making for a baby room in daycare is a complex and multidimensional process that involves opportunities, constraints, and preferences concerning pragmatic, personal, family, contextual and baby-centred factors. The need to provide parents with better information on what matters in daycare contexts is also a significant finding. The article ends by presenting some conclusions and recommendations addressed to all stakeholders, especially educators, to support the parental decision-making process for baby rooms in daycare.

Convolutional Neural Networks for Audio-Based Continuous Infant Cry Monitoring at Home

Cry is an important signal in early infancy for parents to understand needs of their baby and thereby to provide timely parenting/soothing or to be reassured. Thanks to the recent advancement of signal processing, deep learning, and internet-of-things technologies, smart baby monitors with a microphone and/or a video camera have attracted a lot of attention to be used in a baby room to assist parental activities. In this paper, we propose a two-step approach to detect infant cries automatically with continuous audio signals. We first identify and remove the segments without clear sounds (background noise) using a volume-based thresholding algorithm, followed by convolutional neural network (CNN) models to further detect infant cries. The CNN operates on the log linear-scale filterbank energies of audio signals to extract features for cry detection. In this study, a large set of audio data (151.8 hours) collected from five infants in home settings were included. Our proposed approach achieved a mean accuracy of 98.6% in identifying background noise (with only 2 out of 3209 cry segments missed) and a mean accuracy of 92.2% in detecting cries from other non-background sounds.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EFFECTIVENESS OF BREASTFEEDING WITH THE INCIDENCE OF PHYSIOLOGIC HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA IN NEONATAL MATURE AGE OF 2-4 DAYS

Newborn who receive initation of breastfeeding effectively and colostrum is believed to reduce incidence of physiologic hyperbilirubinemia. breastfeeding.The purpose of this study was to the effectiveness of breastfeeding relationship with the incidence of physiologic hyperbilirubinemia in infants mature age of 2-4 days.This study uses a descriptive quantitative analytic method with a cross-sectional approach. Data were taken from the baby room of RSIA UMMI Bogor in November 2015. Respondents from this study were all mothers of infants and hyperbilirubinemic infants who met the inclusion criteria. The sampling technique was total sampling, namely all members of the population were used as a sample of 30 respondents. Data collection using a questionnaire. The data analysis used univariate analysis which was presented in the frequency distribution table while the bivariate data used the chi-square test. From the results of the study, it was found that the effectiveness of breastfeeding with the incidence of hyperbilirubinemia where out of 12 (40%) mothers who were ineffective in breastfeeding their babies experienced hyperbilirubinemia. And based on the chi-square test, there was a relationship between the effectiveness of breastfeeding and the incidence of hyperbilirubinemia (p = 0.027). The effectiveness of breastfeeding can reduce the incidence of hyperbilirubin in infants. The faster and more often the mother gives breast milk to her baby, the faster and more milk production will be to meet nutritional intake The important role of health workers in the success of breastfeeding or breastfeeding, should add knowledge about lactation, so that it can help post partum mothers if there are problems with breastfeeding. There is also a need for a professional breastfeeding counselor in dealing with breastfeeding problems.

Scent and scent-orship in the nursery: why does it matter?

ABSTRACT Scent matters in the lives of humans (and other living creatures). However, thus far, it is largely unexplored in ethnographic work in education. Drawing on and adding to the literature on ‘smellscapes’ as a way of conceptualising space, this paper adds new insights into early childhood education and care (ECEC) by reporting on the differentials in scent between the staffroom and the baby room in a nursery in Central London. In so doing, the distinctive aromas of disinfectant and spices, which characterised these two spaces, are interrogated in order to consider children and educators’ embodied experiences of scent as well as well as to evidence examples of generational and racial inequities.

Prediksi Bed Occupancy Ratio (BOR) Menggunakan Metode Monte Carlo

Perencanaan tenaga medis, tenaga penunjang dan sarana rumah sakit untuk masa yang akan datang sangat penting agar terlaksananya pelayanan prima dan optimal. Manajemen harus dapat memprediksi presentase penggunaan tempat tidur berdasarkan periode waktu tertentu atau Bed Occupancy Ratio (BOR), agar dapat mengetahui kebutuhan tenaga medis, tenaga penunjang dan sarana rumah sakit. Untuk memprediksi BOR pada masa yang akan datang dapat dilakukan simulasi Monte Carlo menggunakan data hari perawatan ruang perawatan Bayi Lantai II tahun 2017, tahun 2018 dan tahun 2019. Ruang Bayi Lantai II memiliki kapasitas tempat tidur sebanyak 12 buah. Tingkat prediksi terhadap ruang perawatan menggunakan simulasi Monte Carlo adalah 93,09% untuk tahun prediksi 2018 dan 89,78% untuk tahun 2019. Sehingga metode simulasi Monte Carlo ini dapat digunakan dalam memprediksi BOR di rumah sakit. Untuk simulasi tahun 2020 didapatkan BOR sebesar 77,21% dengan total hari perawatan sebanyak 3391 hari.

“Nós estamos grávidos”: rituais de cuidado desenvolvidos por famílias durante o processo gestacional

Objetivo: conhecer os rituais de cuidado desenvolvidos pelas famílias durante o processo gestacional. Método: pesquisa etnográfica, desenvolvida com três famílias que vivenciavam o processo gestacional, em um município da região central do estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Adotou-se o modelo de Observação-Participação-Reflexão. A análise fundamentou-se na análise de dados da etnoenfermagem. Resultados: os rituais de cuidado desenvolvidos pela família estão ligados à revelação da gestação, à alimentação, à utilização de homeopatia e chás, à reorganização da família, à preparação do quarto do bebê, às vestimentas do bebê, ao chá de fraldas, às escolhas futuras da criança, ao apadrinhamento e ao registro da gestação. Conclusão: os rituais de cuidado constituem elementos culturais essenciais para o cuidado à saúde da família grávida. Eles integram os familiares, mantém a sua identidade, fortalecem a cultura familiar e renovam os elementos que compõem a família.

In their Prime?

How settings can meet the requirements of the Prime areas of the EYFS in the baby room. By Penny Tassoni

Perancangan Alat Monitoring Pendeteksi Suara di Ruangan Bayi RS Vita Insani Berbasis Arduino Menggunakan Buzzer

Mining age and technology have led to the emergence of an innovation that can help facilitate human activities, especially for parents in controlling and looking after babies. By implementing a sound monitoring system in the baby room based on the Arduino Atmega 328 microcontroller which functions to detect noise. Data from the voice sensor is processed by Arduino via a pin. So Arduino will give instructions to Buzzer to send alarm notifications