Neonatal & Infant Reflexes Flashcards
Rooting
Description/ When it Appears/ When it disappears or integrates:
Description: To assist baby with finding food and breastfeeding
When it Appears: At Birth
When it disappears/integrates: 3-4 months
Gag
Description/ When it Appears/ When it disappears or integrates:
Suck-Swallow
Description/ When it Appears/ When it disappears or integrates:
Cough, Sneeze, & Eye blink
Description/ When it Appears/ When it disappears or integrates:
Description: self explanatory /
When it Appears: Present at birth and will be present throughout life
When it disappears or integrates: Present throughout life
Palmar Grasp
Description/ When it Appears/ When it disappears or integrates:
Palmar Grasp
Description: Stroking the palm of a baby’s hand causes the baby to close his or her fingers in a grasp.
Appears: At Birth
Disappears/Integrates: 5-6 months
Plantar Grasp
Description/ When it Appears/ When it disappears or integrates:
Plantar Grasp
Description: Stroking the sole of a baby’s foot causes the baby to flex their toes in a grasp-like pattern
Appears: Birth
Disappears/Integrates: 9-12 months
ATNR (What does it stand for?)
Description/ When it Appears/ When it disappears or integrates?
ATNR- Asymmetric Tonic Neck Reflex
Description: Fencing posture Baby turns head and arm and leg on OPPOSITE side of body bend while other arm and leg extend. To assist baby through birth canal and to develop cross pattern movements, promotes hand-eye coordination
Appears: Birth
Disappears/Integrates: 6 months
STNR (?)
Description/ When it Appears/ When it disappears or integrates:
STNR -Symmetric Tonic Neck Reflex
Description: Head goes down, arms flex & legs extend. Head goes up, arms extend and legs bend. Separates body movements between upper and lower half of the body, precursor to creeping/crawling; helps infant learn to come up onto their hands and knees.
Appears: 4-6 months
Disappears/Integrates: 8-12 months
Tonic Labyrinthine Reflex
Description/ When it Appears/ When it disappears or integrates:
TLR Tonic Labyrinthine Reflex
Description: OPPOSITE of STNR. Comes before. When baby looks up TLR causes baby to straighten its legs and arms, likewise when the head goes down the limbs fold in.
Appears: At Birth
Disappears: ~ 4 months
Crossed Extension
Landau Reflex
Landau Reflex - Superman Reflex
Description: A reflex seen in infants when held horizontally in the air in the prone position; develops the gross motor cooperation between the top and bottom, and front and back of the body system
When it Appears: ~3-4 months Disappears or integrates: 3 years
Primitive/supportive Standing
Primitive Standing
Description: While held upright by an adult, infant presses lower extremities onto the floor to partially bear weight When it Appears/ When it disappears or integrates:hgile held upright by an adult, infant presses lower extremeties ont
Moro
Scare reflex
Loud clap
Arms out and in
Birth - 4 mo
Placing
visual
understanding general sequence for postural control and motor
prone head down, next turn head to one side, extension for a few seconds, (before turning head in prone you have to have trunk control actively turning head on arms,
Sitting cephalo-caudal progression, need a lot of support at 3-4 mo
as they gain stability in upper trunk then they get more control, 5-6 mo propping hands although a little tippy, stable in sit shifting weight, can play with things
standing- start holding on to furniture holding hands, cruising, one hand hold higher level, and then walking with duck legs
