![]() ![]() Partners often feel that they are busy, but aren’t doing their bit and don’t get a connection with the mother or the baby, they try and help but aren’t as experienced and so it causes a mess. There are a lot of self esteem issues around the mother and the partner, for example the mother is told to loose weight, get out of the house, while “bunkering down” and doing everything for the baby at home and everyone has their own miracle baby trick that is the complete opposite of the next person’s.Parents often want to see other people, have a helping hand or just have a laugh, but communicating with their circle is difficult and often feels like you ‘are a bad parent crying for help.’ There are large support networks around every parent, but this changes when you have a baby as one parent is hard to reach being at home all the time, while the other does things at work and on their way home.Expertise has been taken away from the everyday person and collected in medical professionals – parents now lack the basic skills of early postpartum care and have to keep getting medical advice.Couples get a distance placed between whoever looks after the baby and the one that has to go to work, there is poor communication and understanding of each other’s states. ![]() Opting instead for convenience and speed. Intense focus on health, diet and exercise while pregnant, but that falls apart after baby is born.Constant tasks and relentless caring for the baby creates fatigue and lack of sleep which makes the parents much more susceptible to physical and mental health issues.The core issues we found through our interviews was: The group came together to choose New Parents as we could see that there was a lot of experience and research, but a heavy focus on the baby’s health while almost ignoring the health of the mother and partner. The top three topics that came up were new parents, depression in young adults and social anxiety in teens with autism. I teamed up with Adele and Jess, and after a group discussion we decided to focus on something we all had an surface level understanding of and could access people with the condition. Reported the health status of the user to themselves and their medical practitioner.Supported good health practices and goals.The crux of this assignment was creating a product solution that: The project began with forming groups of three and researching a health condition that affected your ability to perform normal human activities. The following is a visual representation of this: We also analysed the Product Eco System around the parents in regards to their health monitoring and supporting. The human body has simple biosensors that detect if your body is slowing down and becoming fatigued, for a machine to detect this, they monitor either eye-closure and head tilting OR heartrate, sleep length and sleep history. There has been a wide array of research into the area of fatigue monitoring for mechanical, machinery and transport industries as mistakes and lapses in concentration can be very costly or life threatening. After childbirth, the mother must attend to both the child’s and her own basic needs which just doubles the amount of work required to fulfil these basic needs.įatigue affects people slowly and can often be unnoticeable to others until an accident, mistake or major error occurs. When compared to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (see above), you can clearly see how fulfilling the lower levels of the needs pyramid allows a person to have the capacity for friendship, love and self esteem (the things that are most commonly reported as missing during the postpartum period). Intensive Baby Care during fourth trimesterĪccording to Stanford Children’s Health Initiative, the needs of a mother after her child is born include plenty of rest, balanced nutrition and physical and emotional support (Stanford, 2017).Lack of Knowledge and Confidence in Knowledge.The major pain points we have uncovered through our research are: The most critical user needs as a new mum are: As a group, we narrowed down on the problems, spoke to professionals in the QUT medical faculty and interviewed a lot of new and old parents. See Select board and port in Arduino IDE for more information.The group research culimnated in a research report which discussed the health condition, the medical understanding of it and the emotional and physical effects of it. Make sure you have the right board selected in the board selector or the Tools > Board menu. Note: For other compilation errors, see If your sketch doesn’t compile. When you verify or upload a sketch, the error Compilation error: exit status 1 may appear in the console and in a pop-up notification. ![]()
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