NSG 210 final Questions and Answers Already Graded
Q: Infant (1 month) ✓✓ Primitive reflexes- sucking and startle
Making sure noses are clear and do bulb suctioning
Obligate nasal breathers, avoid NG tube until 3 months when they
learn to breathe through their mouths
Everything is flexed-draws arms & legs in towards body when crying
May lift head briefly if prone
Likes to look at faces and black and white geometric designs
Infant (2 months) ✓✓ Prone position, can lift head off of table
Hands may be open or closed
Grasp reflex is not as tight
Coos
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,Infant (4 months) ✓✓ Moro- startle reflex (startled by loud sound
and movement even their crying)
Rooting- move their head to where the mouth is and this helps with
bottle and breast feeding (Stroking the cheek)
Tonic neck- "fencing reflex" head turned, one hand up by head, and
other hand extended out
Lost moro, rooting, and tonic neck reflexes
Pulled to a sitting position, no head lag
Can sit up if propped up (cannot sit alone)
May pull blanket up over face
Turns head to look for voices, sounds
In prone position, can hold head up and support weight on forearms
Turns from abdomen to back
Infant (5 months) ✓✓ Birth weight doubled
Better at being able to sit
Takes in environment
Responds readily to sounds
Palmar grasp-grasps objects with whole hand
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, Infant (6 months) ✓✓ Weight gain slows down due to eating less in
this month; still gaining weight just not as quickly
Prone position - can start to lift chest and belly up off the ground
Roll from back to abdomen
When held in standing position, can support their own weight
Feet into mouth
May get first teeth, can BITE
Extrusion reflex is lost
Infant (8 months) ✓✓ Sit unsupported
May get into the crawl position
Can recognize own name
Pincer grasp
Infant (9 months) ✓✓ May say one word in addition to "mama" &
"dada"
Crawls or pulls whole body along floor
Creeps using hands & knees to keep trunk off floor
Recognizes sound w/o difficulty
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, Infant (10-11 months) ✓✓ Can stand for longer period of time
holding on (may even be able to stand alone completely)
Pulls self to standing & sitting
May be crawling and very fast
Need to watch closely
Baby-proof the environment
Likes peek-a-boo, pat-a-cake
Walks holding onto furniture
Make sure they cannot go up and down the stairs by themselves and
that they are not picking up medicine bottles or chemicals
Infant (12 months) ✓✓ Can walk with 1 hand held
Fair amount of speech-says a few words but understands many
more
Tripled their birth weight
Head and chest circumference are equal
Self-feeds
May hold crayon/pencil and mark on paper
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Q: Infant (1 month) ✓✓ Primitive reflexes- sucking and startle
Making sure noses are clear and do bulb suctioning
Obligate nasal breathers, avoid NG tube until 3 months when they
learn to breathe through their mouths
Everything is flexed-draws arms & legs in towards body when crying
May lift head briefly if prone
Likes to look at faces and black and white geometric designs
Infant (2 months) ✓✓ Prone position, can lift head off of table
Hands may be open or closed
Grasp reflex is not as tight
Coos
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,Infant (4 months) ✓✓ Moro- startle reflex (startled by loud sound
and movement even their crying)
Rooting- move their head to where the mouth is and this helps with
bottle and breast feeding (Stroking the cheek)
Tonic neck- "fencing reflex" head turned, one hand up by head, and
other hand extended out
Lost moro, rooting, and tonic neck reflexes
Pulled to a sitting position, no head lag
Can sit up if propped up (cannot sit alone)
May pull blanket up over face
Turns head to look for voices, sounds
In prone position, can hold head up and support weight on forearms
Turns from abdomen to back
Infant (5 months) ✓✓ Birth weight doubled
Better at being able to sit
Takes in environment
Responds readily to sounds
Palmar grasp-grasps objects with whole hand
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, Infant (6 months) ✓✓ Weight gain slows down due to eating less in
this month; still gaining weight just not as quickly
Prone position - can start to lift chest and belly up off the ground
Roll from back to abdomen
When held in standing position, can support their own weight
Feet into mouth
May get first teeth, can BITE
Extrusion reflex is lost
Infant (8 months) ✓✓ Sit unsupported
May get into the crawl position
Can recognize own name
Pincer grasp
Infant (9 months) ✓✓ May say one word in addition to "mama" &
"dada"
Crawls or pulls whole body along floor
Creeps using hands & knees to keep trunk off floor
Recognizes sound w/o difficulty
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, Infant (10-11 months) ✓✓ Can stand for longer period of time
holding on (may even be able to stand alone completely)
Pulls self to standing & sitting
May be crawling and very fast
Need to watch closely
Baby-proof the environment
Likes peek-a-boo, pat-a-cake
Walks holding onto furniture
Make sure they cannot go up and down the stairs by themselves and
that they are not picking up medicine bottles or chemicals
Infant (12 months) ✓✓ Can walk with 1 hand held
Fair amount of speech-says a few words but understands many
more
Tripled their birth weight
Head and chest circumference are equal
Self-feeds
May hold crayon/pencil and mark on paper
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