Prenatal Threats
This is the name to an environmental agent which potentially harms a fetus.
What is a teratogen?
The conduit between the mother and fetus which provides nourishment and oxygen.
What is the placenta?
The basic unit of genetic information
What is a gene
A baby born before 37 weeks gestation.
What is a preterm infant?
The position in which the baby lies feet first.
What is breech?
Two crucial factors which determine the extent of a teratogen's impact on a fetus.
What are timing and quantity?
The term used to describe a developing child from eight weeks gestation to birth.
What is a fetus?
What is DNA.
Close physical and emotional contact between baby and caregivers in the first few moments after birth.
What is bonding?
The number of stages in the birthing process known as labour.
What are three?
Similar to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) this disorder causes newborns to have some but not all problems related to maternal alcohol abuse.
What is Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE)?
The prenatal in which stagesignificant growth occurs in the major organs and body systems.
What is the embryonic stage?
The combination of genetic material which is not outwardly visible.
What is a genotype.
A system of measurement which assesses indicators of good health in a newborn.
What is the APGAR scale?
This restriction of oxygen to the baby during birth, can result in brain damage.
What is anoxia?
What are:
smoking (second hand smoke)
alcohol and drug use leading to chromosomal damage
physical/emotional abuse of the mother.
The first and shortest prenatal stage.
What is the germinal stage?
This field of study examines the genetic aspects of personality traits and psychological disorders.
What is behavioral genetics.
A newborn who weighs 90 percent or less of the average weight of another infant of the same gestational age.
What is a small for gestational age infant?
Close physical and emotional contact between parent and child in the first few moments after birth.
What is bonding?
Exposure to teratogens in the first 6-8 weeks can lead to structural damage because this is happening during that time.
Formation of Organs
At two months gestation, this accounts for half of the fetus' body.
What is the head?
These patterns of arousal and emotionality represent consistent and enduring characteristics in an individual.
What is temperament?
A form of learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened, depending on it's association with consequences. EG: a baby learns that crying brings about parents' attention.Close physical and emotional contact between parent and child in the first few moments after birth.
What is operant conditioning?
A surgical procedure more likely to occur in breech or transverse position births.
What is Cesarean Section?