Prenatal Development
The prenatal period that lasts from conception until about 2 weeks in which rapid cell division and implantation take place.
What is the period of the zygote?
The term for when the baby's head settles into the pelvis.
What is lightening?
The ABCs of safe sleep stands for these.
What are alone, back, and crib?
This is a stable way in which we react and adapt to the world around us that is present early in life.
This is the idea that something still exists even when out of sight.
What is object permanence?
The structure that removes wastes and provides the baby with nutrients.
What is the placenta?
The term for when a mother is at 8-10 centimeters, the cervix is fully dilated, and contractions have reached their peak, coming every 2 to 3 minutes.
What is transition?
This is the mother's first milk produced in a small, concentrated amount packed with antibodies, often called "liquid gold."
What is colostrum?
This is the term for when a child's temperament and the demands and expectations of their caregivers match.
What is goodness-of-fit?
This is the amount of brain development that has occurred by the age of 5.
What is 90%?
What is organogenesis?
This is the stage of labor that involves pushing and ends with the birth of the baby.
What is stage 2?
These are Dr. Harvey Karp's five S's for soothing an upset baby.
What are swaddle, side or stomach lying, shushing, swinging/swaying, and sucking?
This is the stage of John Bowlby's theory of attachment in which stranger anxiety begins to show.
What is attachment in the making?
This is the process of how unused connections in the brain are cleared away.
What is synaptic pruning?
Environmental agents that can disturb the development of an embryo or fetus.
What is a teratogen?
This is the white coating that protects the baby from the salty amniotic fluid.
What is vernix?
This is the brain and body's awareness of night and day.
What is the circadian rhythm?
This is the way we think about emotions that affects how we experience and show emotions, such as when we say "big boys don't cry."
What are emotion schemas?
This is the term for when an infant sees an action and then reenacts it at a later time.
What is deferred imitation?
The ability to survive or live successfully outside of the womb.
What is fetal viability?
The APGAR is a measure of these signs in a newborn baby.
What are appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, and respiration?
These are signs of hunger in a newborn baby.
What are moving fist to mouth, turning head side to side, becoming more alert and active, smacking lips or sucking on hands, and opening and closing their mouth?
This is the type of early mothering a child with an avoidance attachment style might have experienced.
What is emotionally unavailable parenting?
This is the term that refers to people's inability to recall memories from before they were three years old.
What is infantile amnesia?