the newborn

Question 1

assessing the newborn

Answer 1

• Agpar assesses health: activity, pulse, grimace, appearance, respiration
• Neonatal behavioral assessment scare = assessment of infacts that includes measures of alertness and ability to interact with people
• 7+ on scale = good
• 4-6 on scare = needs monitoring
• 3 or less = life threatening
• Used to predict future development

Question 2

newborns reflexes

Answer 2

• Reflexes prepare them to interact with world
• Some are more important to survival (rooting and sucking)
• Some protect newborn (blink and withdrawal)
• Some are foundations for later motor behavior

Question 3

4 primary states

Answer 3

o Alert inactivity → awake but don’t do much
o Waking activity → eyes open, moving in uncoordinated way
o Crying → 2-3 hours per day, can distinguish diff reasons why (at least 3 types)
o Sleeping → all over the place, not much of a pattern, around 6-12 weeks they sleep more at night, more of a pattern
• Cultural sleep differences, some with kid and some in crib

Question 4

sids

Answer 4

• Sudden infant death syndrome
• Healthy baby dies for no reason
• Risks: low birth weight, parental smoking, babies sleeping face own, too hot while sleeping
• Declining in canada (1.2 per 1000 in 1980 to .5 per 1000 in 96)
• HR higher when sleeping on stomachs → should sleep on backs
• Poor autonomic HR may play factor
• Sleeping with parents may be bad but no one knows

Question 5

perception and learning

Answer 5

• All perceptual processes operating at birth
• Can change based on experience
• Can sense things like we do → see hear taste smell feel