2 Newborn infants

Question 1

What makes up a newborn infants pattern of activity?

Answer 1

• Active sleep 8hrs
• Quiet sleep 8hrs
• drowsing 1 hr
• crying 2 hrs
• alert awake 2.5hrs
• active awake 2.5hrs

Question 2

What characterises quiet sleep?

Answer 2

Steady slow regular brain waves and breathing and heart rate. lack of movement

Question 3

What characterises active sleep?

Answer 3

REM. dreams and rapid under-lid eye movement

Question 4

How do REM sleep proportions change over time?

Answer 4

newborns 50%
3-4 yr olds 20%
thought to make up for lack of external stimuli/stimulation of visual cortex in newborns
it helps the visual cortex develop

Question 5

What is the weight of a low birth weight infant

Answer 5

less than 5.5.lbs

Question 6

What re the two types of Low birth weight infants?

Answer 6

• SGA small for gestational age -born after 35 weeks

- premature -born before or on 35 weeks

Question 7

What happens to Low birth weight infants?

Answer 7

they get their parents to touch them lots. although they may have more complications at birth they often grow to be completely healthy

Question 8

What is infant mortaility?

Answer 8

Death within first year