Infant Development
Milestones
Milestones
At this age, an infant will respond to familiar voices and smile at familiar faces.
What is 2 months?
At this age, infants begin to notice their own hands, start coordinating hand and eye movements, and raise their head and chest when lying on their stomach.
What is 3 months?
This pain assessment tool, often used for infants and young children, evaluates five criteria: face, legs, activity, cry, and consolability. Each is scored on a 0-2 scale to provide a total score indicating the level of pain.
What is the FLACC scale?
The normal heart rate for a newborn to 3-month-old infant is between these two values.
What is 100-180 beats per minute?
This is the first step in the emergency assessment protocol for pediatric patients, which involves checking for vocalization, obstruction, or bleeding.
What is Airway (A)?
By this age, infants begin to babble and display a social smile with facial expressions.
What is 3 months?
At this age, infants reach for objects, transfer them hand to hand, and use their hands to rake objects. They also begin rolling both directions and may sit with support.
What is 4-6 months?
This pain scale, used for toddlers and preschoolers, uses facial expressions and body movements to assess pain.
What is Wong-Baker Faces?
This is the first thing you should assess in a pediatric patient before touching the child.
What is the respiratory rate?
The "B" refers to in the emergency assessment protocol.
What is Breathing? (involves assessing chest rise, skin color, and breath sounds)
By this age, infants start responding to their own name, babbling in response to sounds, and showing these types of behaviors, like recognizing familiar faces.
What is 4-6 months?
At this age, infants develop a pincer grasp, place everything in their mouth, begin crawling, sit without assistance, and stand while holding onto an object for support.
What is 7-9 months?
In children, this is a late sign of respiratory distress, often signaling a critical situation.
What is Cyanosis?
When assessing heart rate in an infant, you should listen for one full minute, especially under this age.
What is age 1?
What C refers to in the emergency assessment protocol.
What is Circulation? (this includes: checking pulse quality, capillary refill, and bleeding.)
Around this age, infants begin to imitate expressions, clap their hands, and enjoy games and play. They also understand the word "no."
What is 7-9 months?
At this stage, infants can put objects into and take them out of containers, clap their hands, wave goodbye, cruise along furniture and begin to walk with support.
What is 10-12 months?
This reflex causes a baby to turn its head toward the side of the cheek being stroked.
What is Rooting?
This type of probe should be used for pulse oximetry in infants, while a finger probe is used for older children.
What is a foot probe?
This step in the emergency assessment protocol focuses on assessing consciousness, pupil reaction, and extremity movement.
What is Disability?
By this age, infants typically cry when their caregiver leaves, prefer certain people and toys, and are able to say about 5 words, although they understand more.
What is 10-12 months?
At this age, infants are capable of walking and dancing.
What is 12 months?
This reflex, present at birth, causes a baby's fingers to curl around an object placed in the palm.
What is Palmar Grasp?
A decreased level of consciousness (LOC), altered sensorium, or this sign are neurological red flags in pediatric patients.
What is a bulging fontanel?
A cardiovascular red flag in a pediatric patient, often accompanied by nasal flaring, grunting, or cyanosis.
What is an elevated respiratory rate (>60/min)?