Infant Reflexes
Sucking and Rooting
What age should you introduce solid foods?
Around 6 months but it depends on the baby
Define Fine Motor Skills
voluntary movements in small muscles
What is the most poorly developed sense at birth?
vision
Vaccine might actually cause the disease its meant for? True or False
False, A vaccine is immating a disease but is not the actual disease
Which 2 reflexes involve a babies limbs?
grasp and babinski
No it doesnt matter the order just small amounts of things to start
Define Gross Motor Skills
voluntary movements in large muscles
Hearing
Vaccines are linked to autism? True or False?
False, Has no correlation at all
Define tonic neck
When lying on the back with the head to one side infants will extend the arm and leg on that side while flexing the limbs on the opposite side (looks like fencer pose).
What should children eat from 0-5 months?
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner should all be formula or breast milk
What is the size of the brain to its adult size at birth?
25%
Define Touch and Pain
Touch is the sense by which we determine the characteristics of objects: size, shape, and texture. Pain messages are picked up by receptors and transmitted to the spinal cord via small myelinated fibers and very small unmyelinated fibers.
Does a vaccine work if only 1/4th of the population is vaccinated?
No because 3/4ths can still get infected
What is this reflex? A sudden noise or loss of support to the head and neck will cause infants to spread out their arms and legs then quickly contract the limbs inward
Moro
What should 6-11 month olds eat?
An example of each is Breakfast 0-2 ounces of cheese, Lunch could be 0-4 ounces cottage cheese, Dinner could be 0-4 ounces yogurt
What is the size of a babys brain compared to a adult at age 2?
75%
What taste does a baby like the most at birth?
Sweet
Does Colic cause lots of harm to babies?
No it just causes excessive crying and boating of the stomach and maybe extra gas
Define Stepping
Legs move in stepping like motion when feet touch a smooth surface
What should 1-2 year olds eat?
here is a example of each Breakfast could be 1/2 cups of milk, Lunch could be 1/8 cup fruit, Dinner could be 1 ounce meat
What is a reflex?
an action or movement of the body that happens automatically or without thinking as a reaction to something
What is multimodal processing?
an important research and development field that processes signals and combines information from a variety of modalities
What is the difference between SIDS and Shaken Baby Syndrome?
SIDS is sudden infant death and nobody knows why it happens but Shaken baby syndrome is because babys cry to much and the parents have a mental breakdown and shake the baby which may cause death or brain damage