Ep 35: Growing Pains: How Humans Grow and What That Means for Behavior

Raising Good Humans

Dear Media, Aliza Pressman

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Those pediatric growth curves are kind of misleading! Babies don’t grow a little each day, Professor Michelle Lampl discovered that

humans don’t grow continuously but in spurts at key moments in their

development. She also studied babies’ behavior during growth spurts

and realized that changes in mood, appetite and sleep patterns

coincide with growth spurts from infancy through adolescence.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:05.0	Welcome to Raising Good Humans.
0:08.0	I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman, and today we're talking about how babies, children, and even teenagers grow because how our children grow is such an obvious obsession.
0:18.0	We almost don't even realize that we care about it, but from the beginning, we send birth announcements that even add height and weight, we try to predict how our babies will grow,
0:27.6	we look at our tweens to try and guess what their adult size will be, and we attribute so many
0:32.2	behaviors to growth spurts from moods to
0:34.6	appetites to sleep. So we have an expert with us today professor Michelle
0:39.6	Lampol who's a developmental expert on the mechanisms and behaviors of human growth.
0:46.3	Michelle, you're doing a study, you tell me about your study because I know pediatricians and parents often are used to the
0:55.0	traditional sort of growth curve chart and that's what they look at but I want to
0:59.5	hear about your research which people can get a really cool view of if they go to the babies
1:07.1	documentary on Netflix as well and which episode is that?
1:10.7	It's episode three. It's episode three.
1:13.0	So, you know, tell me what you have learned about baby's growth and I think it would be so
1:18.4	cool to talk through the mechanisms at play and the kinds of behaviors that you see over time because we think about
1:27.7	babies and even the way people talk about tweens and what's going on with them and so much is attributed
1:34.5	behaviorally with growth and vice versa so I'm just so curious what the
1:39.8	research says. I began my research a number of years ago at this point and when I
1:47.2	began my research I was actually interested in behavioral development. My point here is I didn't go into
1:56.1	this particular research saying let me show how babies grow and I'll do this by measuring them every day, but that had nothing to do with the background to my studies. I was interested in learning how to measure babies to have a biological marker as I followed their behavioral development in their home environment.
2:17.0	And I started with one of my friends and we decided to measure her baby and the first very first time
2:25.7	we did this it was difficult I mean as you can imagine and as any parent knows no
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