3- Postnatal development: from infancy to early childhood and beyond?

Question 1

What are the 9 developmental stages? What are the age stages of each stage (the first 3)?

Answer 1

1. Prenatal development -> embryonic stage and fetal stage
2. Infancy and toddlerhood -> neonatal (birth to 22 days), birth to onset of walking
3. Toddler-> 1-4 years
4. Early childhood -> infancy to 7 years old
5. Middle childhood
6. Adolescence
7. Late adulthood
8. Death and dying

Question 2

Growth and development of a fetus spreads over the body in what ways?

Answer 2

• From head to foot (cephalocaudal law)
• From central axis of body to extremities (proximodistal law)