A1 (Birth to Infancy) Reflexes Flashcards
What is the Glabellar Reflex?
Gently tap the space between the eyes on the forehead and they will blink
What is the Snout Reflex?
The pouting or pursing of the lips that is elicited by the light tapping of the closed lips near the midline. The contraction of the muscles causes the mouth when the cheek or lip is touched
What is the Rooting Reflex?
When the baby automatically turn their face towards the stimulus ad make sucking motions with the mouth when the cheek or lip is touched
What is the Sucking Reflex?
This reflex is vital to survival and the sooner a baby is put to breast the better the reflex will be.
What is the Palmomental Reflex?
Twitch of the chin muscle elicited by the stroking of a specific part of the palm
What is the Grasp Reflex?
When an object is placed in the infants hand and strokes their palm causing the baby to close their fingers around the object.
What is the Moro Reflex?
A response to the sudden feeling of falling, including spreading out their arms, un-spreading their arms and crying.
What is the Galant Reflex?
When a new-born is face down and stroked along one side of the spine. A normal reaction is for the new-born to be flexed towards the stimulated side.
What is the Asymmetric Tonic neck reflex?
Often described as the “fencing reflex” characteristic of the position of an infants arm and head resembling a fencer.
What is the Babkin Reflex?
Reflex with varying responses to the application of pressure on both palms. Infants may display the need for flexion, head rotation, opening of the mouth or a combination of these
What is the Placing Reflex?
When you hold a child in an upright position in front of a table or other object and the child raises their foot to try to step onto the object “foot placing reflex”
What is the Walking Reflex?
Hold the baby by its armpits and place them upright as if they were standing
What reflex ensures sucessful breastfeeding?
Rooting Reflex
What reflex appears as early as 16 weeks in utero and persists until five or six months?
Grasp Reflex
Which reflex is only present in infancy and disappears as the brain matures into childhood but may reappear in certain brain conditions?
Palmomental Reflex
