Infant Development
Name the progression of communication and language development in infants.
What are crying, cooing, babbling, single words, and putting a few words together?
List three common activities that are NOT likely to cause Shaken Baby Syndrome.
What are bouncing a baby on your knee, tossing a baby in the air, and running or jogging with a baby?
The safest location for a car seat is in this position within the car.
What is the center of the back seat?
Survival skills for a newborn & a way for physicians to check the functioning of the baby’s neurological system.
What are reflexes?
The medical name for babies the first month of life
What is the medical term for babies during their first month of life?
List the four basic cries of infants.
What are hunger, boredom, pain, and anger?
This syndrome occurs when an infant's head and neck are jostled back and forth with enough force to cause brain tissue damage.
What is Shaken Baby Syndrome?
Children under this age should not sit in a seat with an airbag, even if it can be manually turned off.
What is 12?
A baby’s cheek is stroked, the baby will turn towards the side of his/her face that was stroked.
When the weight of the fetus is under 5.5 pounds at birth.
What is low birth weight?
Name the sequence of natural physical development milestones that most children follow, including lifting their head and walking.
What is lift their head, roll over, creep, crawl, cruise, and walking?
Name three injuries that can result from violent shaking of an infant.
What are brain bleeding, eye bleeding, and brain swelling?
List three toy safety measures to prevent accidents and injuries in children.
What are using non-toxic materials, avoiding small parts for young children, and regularly inspecting and discarding broken toys?
Introduce solid foods around this age to gradually expand a child's diet.
What is 6 months?
The test done at 1 minute & then again 5 minutes after delivery.
What is APGAR test?
What are crying, cooing, babbling, single words, and putting a few words together?
What is learning through senses and actions?
Provide five ways to try to comfort a crying baby.
What are walking or dancing with the baby, rocking the baby, bouncing the baby gently, holding the baby in a different position, and using white noise or offering a pacifier?
Name three precautions for childproofing a home to prevent accidents.
What are keeping children away from fire hazards, setting water temperature, and securing windows and electrical outlets?
To encourage acceptance, parents should offer a variety of these two aspects when introducing solid foods.
What are flavors and textures?
The soft spots on a child's skull, facilitate rapid brain growth, which can see a child's brain size triple within the first two years of life.
What is Fontanels?
What is the role of play in an infant's development and identify two types of play in infants.
What is play facilitating all aspects of development, and what are solitary play and on-looker play?
Age range at which children typically begin self-feeding.
What is around 8-10 months?
Muscle tone
Heart rate
Response to stimulation
Breathing
Skin color
What are the five criteria looked at during APGAR test?