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Growth refers to |
An increase in physical size |
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Development is |
The sequential process by which infants and children gain various skills and functions |
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Both growth and development are influenced by |
hereditary by development in determining the child support Angel while environment contributes to the degree of achievement |
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Maturation refers to |
An increase in functionality of various body systems or developmental skills |
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Physical growth, maturation of body systems, and gross and fine motor skills progresses in |
Orderly and sequential fashion |
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Infants exhibit vast amount of learning in the |
Psychosocial and cognitive, language and communication, and social emotional domain |
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Adjusted growth is used to determine the infants expected outcome. How would you determine the adjusted growth of a premature infant |
If a 6 month old was born at 28 weeks gestation therefore he was born 12 weeks early which is 3 months so subtract 3 months from The Chronicle logic age of 6 months to obtain the adjusted age of 3 months |
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What are the indicators of physical growth in the newborn and infant |
Weight, length, and head and chest circumference |
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The average newborn weighs |
3.400 kg 7.5 lb at Birth with boys being slightly heavier than girls |
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Newborn lose up to how many percentage of body weight over the first week and then gains about how much per day |
Lose up to 10% of body weight and gains about 30 grand per day and regains his or her birth weight by 10 to 14 days of age |
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At how many months does infants doubles and triples their weight |
Weight doubles by 4 months of age and triple with their birth weight by the time they are one |
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What is the average height of a newborn, in six months and in 12 months |
Newborn height is about 50 cm 12 inches long by 12 months of age the infant length has increased by 50% |
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The average head circumference of the full-term newborn is |
35 CM or 14 in |
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What are the six states of consciousness |
Deep sleep- sleeping with eyes closed and no movement light sleep- sleeping with eyes closed rapid eye movement and irregular movements may be noticed drowsiness- eyes make clothes or be half-lidded the infant may be dozing. Quiet Alert state the infant's eyes are wide open and the body is calm. active Alert state the infant's Eyes Are Open body movement occur crying the infant's cries or screams and it is difficult to gain the infant's attention |
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How does the brain grows in the first two years |
By the first six months the brain is half the size of an adult at age 12 it was two and a half times what he did at Birth anterior fontanelle remain open until 12 to 18 months but may close as early as nine months myelination of the spinal cord and nurse continue over the first two years |
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The Selective and primitive reflexes that are present at birth are |
Moro, root, suck, asymmetric tonic neck, plantar and Palmar grasp, step, and Babinski |
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Which one of the reflexes remain for one year |
Babinski |
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What is the respiratory rate of a newborn |
3260 breath in the newborn to about 20 to 30 in the first 12 months |
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What are the comparison an infant to an adult of the respiratory system |
The nasal passages are narrower the trachea and chest wall or more compliant the bronchi and bronchioles are shorter and narrower the larynx is more funnel-shaped the tongue is larger there are significantly fewer alveoli |
