Body Changes
What are the three categories doctors measure throughout the first 2 years of babies?
Head circumference, weight, and length.
What is the first type of breastmilk that is released during the first feeding after birth?
Colostrum
At what age do infants start "creeping"?
A.) 6 Months
B.) 4 Months
C.) 8 Months
D.) 11 Months
A.) 6 Months
What are the five senses?
Hearing, seeing, taste, smell, and touch & pain.
________ synapses are made per second in an infant’s brain after birth.
40 thousand
At what age are you around half of your adult height?
24 months
What is more easily absorbed when consumed? Breast milk or formula?
Breast milk
What type of sitting is not recommended for a child?
A.) Long
B.) Ring Sitting
C.) Taylor sitting
D.) "W" sitting
D.) "W" sitting
Around what age are infants able to become more familiar with the sounds of their surroundings?
7 to 8 Months
______ are one of the few mammals who have extensive prenatal brain growth after birth.
Humans
At the end of 24 months the babies average weight is?
28 pounds
What makes up colostrum?
Colostrum is high in protein, fat-soluble vitamins, minerals, and immunoglobulins.
What is the main posture of a newborn?
A.) Extension
B.) Flexion
C.) Plantar flexion
D.) Dorsiflexion
B.) Flexion
Typically newborns can not see further than ______ to ______ inches away from their faces.
4 to 30 inches
T or F: Due to the baby’s brain development they’re able to nurture and care for themselves around the same time period as other mammals.
False
What range of percentile measurements are considered okay to fall in-between?
10th percentile to the 90th percentile.
Exclusively breastfed babies have the fastest growth of what to their brains?
Myelinated white matter
At what month can infants make dissociated movements of head and trunk?
A.) 2 Months
B.) 6 Months
C.) 5 Months
D.) 12 Months
C.) 5 Months
Bitter foods can sometimes provide defense against what disease?
Malaria
Without _____ it causes dendrites to become dense and long, thus impairing the thinking process.
Pruning
Name three things that can positively or negatively impact a babies physical growth?
Name one benefit of breastfeeding that was listed on the comparison of breastfeeding vs. formula chart.
Possible Answers:
Perfect Balance of nutrients, High level of nutrients, Easily digestible and absorbed, Content varies according to milk production stage, which meets the changing nutritional requirements
How do motor skills develop?
A.) Distal to proximal
B.) Proximal to distal
C.) Cephal to caudal
D.) Caudal to cephal
C.) Cephal to caudal
What are the four soothing ways of touch that newborns are perceptive of?
Wrapping, rubbing, massaging, and cradling.
______ _______ disorder is a case that shows how over development of dendrites and improper pruning process affects a child’s thinking process and senses with sound and sight.
Autism spectrum