Module 29: Challenges during Infancy and Toddlerhood

Question 1

Nonorganic Failure to Thrive

Answer 1

slowed or arrested physical growth with no known medical cause, accompanied by poor developmental and emotional functioning

Question 2

Shaken Baby Syndrome

Answer 2

baby has a weak neck muscles, and a large, heavy head, shaking makes the brain bounce back and forth inside the skull

Question 3

Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Answer 3

One condition commonly faced by preterm babies is Respiratory Distress Syndrome – wherein there is a lack of surfactant (lung-coating substance) that keeps air sacs from collapsing

Question 4

Postmature Babies

Answer 4

tend to be long and this because they have kept growing in the womb but have had an
insufficient blood supply toward the end of gestation

Question 5

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Answer 5

crib death; sudden death of an infant under age 1 which cause of death remains unexplained