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✔✔Basic reflexes in infants - ✔✔- rooting (3 weeks)
- stepping (2 months)
- swimming (4-6 months)
- moro (6 months)
- babinski (8-12 months)
- startle (remains in different form)
- eye-blink (remains)
- sucking (remains)
- gag (remains)
✔✔rooting reflex - ✔✔- baby turns head towards things touching its cheek
- food intake
✔✔stepping reflex - ✔✔- movement of legs when held upright with feet touching the
floor
- independent locomotion
✔✔swimming reflex - ✔✔- when they are laid horizontally on their stomachs, infants
stretch out their arms and legs
- avoidance of danger
✔✔moro reflex - ✔✔- activated when support for the neck and head is suddenly
removed; the arms of the infant are thrust outward and then appear to grasp onto
something
- similar to primate's protection from falling
✔✔babinski reflex - ✔✔- reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of
the foot is touched
- unknown
✔✔startle reflex - ✔✔- an infant, in response to a sudden noise, flings out its arms,
arches its back, and spreads its fingers
- protection
✔✔eye-blink reflex - ✔✔- rapid shutting and opening of eye on exposure to direct light
,- protection of eye from direct sunlight
✔✔sucking reflex - ✔✔- infant's tendency to suck at things that touch its lips
- food intake
✔✔gag reflex - ✔✔- an infant's reflex to clear its throat
- prevents choking
✔✔gross motor skills - ✔✔physical abilities involving large body movements, such as
walking and jumping
ex: rolling over (3.2 months)
ex: grasping rattle (3.3 months)
ex: sitting w/o support (5.9 months)
ex: standing while holding on ( 7.2 months)
ex: grasping with finger and thumb (8.2 months)
ex: standing alone well (11.5 months)
ex: walking well (12.3 months)
ex: building tower of two cubes (14.8 months)
ex: walking up steps (16.6 months)
ex: jumping in place (23.8 months)
✔✔fine motor skills - ✔✔- physical abilities involving small body movements, especially
of the hands and fingers, such as drawing and picking up a coin
ex: opens hand (3 months)
ex: holds rattle (3 months)
ex: grasps with thumb and finger (8 months)
ex: holds crayon (11 months)
ex: builds tower with two square objects (14 months)
, ex: places pegs into board (16 months
ex: imitates lines on piece of paper (24 months)
ex: imitates circle (33 months)
✔✔NBAS (Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale) - ✔✔measure designed
to determine infants' neurological and behavioral responses to their environment
✔✔Nutrition in Infancy - ✔✔- the rapid physical growth fueled by the nutrients
- infants calorie allotment about 50 calories per day for each pound they weigh
- without proper nutrition, infants cannot reach their physical potential may suffer
cognitive and social consequences
✔✔(Apgar) Activity - ✔✔0 - absent
1 - arms and legs flexed
2 - active movement
✔✔Breastfeeding recommendations - ✔✔recommended for full-term infants for the 1st
year because it is ideally formulated to promote normal infant growth and development
and natural immunity and has:
1. fewer food allergies and intolerances
2. reduced likelihood of overfeeding
3. less cost than commercial infant formulas
4. increased mother-infant interaction time
✔✔sensation - ✔✔stimulation of sense organs
✔✔perception - ✔✔the sorting out, interpretation, analysis, and integration of stimuli
involving the sense organs and brain
✔✔sound localization - ✔✔the process by which the location of sound is determined
✔✔multimodel approach - ✔✔the approach that considers how information that's
collected by various individual sensory systems is integrated and coordinated
✔✔Approaches to childbirth - ✔✔lamaze birthing technique, Bradley method,
hypnobirthing, and water birthing