Terms and Phrases
Electronic instruments that track the baby’s heart rate during labor.
What are fetal monitors?
This reflex may prepare the infant for voluntary reaching and eventually rolling over
What is the tonic neck reflex?
NICU stands for...
What is Neonatal Intensive Care Unit?
The stage of labor where the placenta is delivered
What is third stage?
The name of Bandura's theory on child development
What is the social learning theory?
Labor that is started artificially.
What is induced labor?
This reflex might have been used in evolutionary terms when the infant needed to cling to mom.
What is the moro reflex?
This occurs when a newborn’s body or brain stops getting oxygen.
What is anoxia?
What is first stage?
The amount of domains of development
What is 3?
A surgical birth.
What is a cesarean delivery?
An inborn, automatic response to a particular form of stimulation.
What is a reflex?
This is a condition that causes the newborn’s skin to yellow.
What is jaundice?
An epidural is an example of this type of medicine used in labor and delivery
What is anesthetic?
This stage of sleep is typically classified as the dreamless sleep or the deep sleep period
What is NREM?
A plastic cup, placed on the baby’s head, to help in delivery.
What is a vacuum extractor?
What is the rooting reflex?
A general term for a variety of problems that result from brain damage before, during or just after birth.
What is cerebral palsy?
When a baby is turned so that the buttocks or feet are born first.
What is breech?
This condition presents itself as an unusually slow heart rate.
What is bradycardia?
Any environmental agent that causes damage during the prenatal period.
What is a teratogen?
This reflex occurs when you run a finger up a newborn's foot.
What is the Babinski reflex?
This type of doctor specializes in severe health cases in newborns.
What is a neonatologist?
Babies who are smaller than usual for the number of weeks of pregnancy.
What are small for date infants?
A specialized crib designed for premature infants.
What is an isolette?