Toddlers: Children between the ages of 1 and 3
Inoculations: Vaccines that are substances given in shot form, produce or boost immunity to a specific disease such as measles and mumps.
Scaffolding: Helping a child.
Zone of proximal development: The level at which a child can learn with help.
Telegraphic speech: Toddlers learn to combine words into two-word combinations.
Autonomy versus shame and doubt: Social-emotional development stage.
Temper tantrum: Emotional episode of upset behavior.
Holophrases: Toddlers use one word to describe a whole group of items
Parallel play: Playing alongside another, with little interaction.
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Newborn Screening Test
- Common Diagnosis in the NICU: babies may be sent to the NICU because they're born prematurely or difficulties occur during their deliveries or they show signs of a problem in the first few days of life. Some things that can be found are Anemia, Apnea, Bradycardia, Hydrocephalus.
- Meconium Aspiration: can happen before, during, or after labor. when a newborn inhales a mixture of meconium and amniotic fluid (the fluid in which the baby floats inside the amniotic sac).
- Three screenings: some screening tests that a newborn may get is a hearings screening, sickle cell screening and MSUD.
- PKU screening test: the PKU screening test detects if the baby has a metabolic disorders, phenylketonuria.
Infancy
Infancy: A period from birth to the age of one.
Neonates: The time right after the baby is born.
Apgar scale: A test that is administered at one minute and then again at five minutes after birth
Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale: A scale that tests a baby's reflexes and responses to light, sounds, and touch.
Rooting reflex: The baby will move towards the bottle or their mother's breast when the side of their mouth is stroked.
Bonding: The emotional connection that a parent or caregiver develops with the baby.
Postpartum period: A time period where mothers who have just given birth need time for both physical and psychological adjustment.
Postpartum depression: An intense sadness and oftentimes emotional withdrawal from others.
Proximodistal development: Infants learn to control the muscles at the core of their bodies before the muscles further out from their abdominal center.
Cephalocaudal development: The way babies develop from the top of their head down to their extremities.
Shaken baby syndrome: The tragic injuries that result from the babies being shaken, should be avoided at all times.
Crawling: A type of dragging movement accomplished by the baby pulling forward by the arms and shoulders while lying on the stomach.
Creeping: movement that occurs by using the hands and knees to pull the body forward while the stomach is raised off the ground.
Palmer grasp: to scrape up an object with their fingers into palm of their hands.
Pincer grasp: uses their forefinger and thumb.
Food intolerances: reactions to foods that are unpleasant.
Sensorimotor stage: infants move from reflexes to interacting with the world around them using motor skills.
Object permanence: understanding that people, places, or objects still exist even when they are out of sight.
Receptive language: babies understand language much before they can form words.
Trust versus mistrust: the stage for socio-emotional development during infancy.
Attachment: emotional connection between the child and caregiver.
Stranger anxiety: the distress of being left with stranger peaks.
Separation anxiety: when caregiver or parent leaves infant in hands of a stranger.
Unoccupied play: when a baby observes and focuses on an object or activity.
Solitary play: when infant plays alone.
Temperament: interact with the world.
Neonates: The time right after the baby is born.
Apgar scale: A test that is administered at one minute and then again at five minutes after birth
Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale: A scale that tests a baby's reflexes and responses to light, sounds, and touch.
Rooting reflex: The baby will move towards the bottle or their mother's breast when the side of their mouth is stroked.
Bonding: The emotional connection that a parent or caregiver develops with the baby.
Postpartum period: A time period where mothers who have just given birth need time for both physical and psychological adjustment.
Postpartum depression: An intense sadness and oftentimes emotional withdrawal from others.
Proximodistal development: Infants learn to control the muscles at the core of their bodies before the muscles further out from their abdominal center.
Cephalocaudal development: The way babies develop from the top of their head down to their extremities.
Shaken baby syndrome: The tragic injuries that result from the babies being shaken, should be avoided at all times.
Crawling: A type of dragging movement accomplished by the baby pulling forward by the arms and shoulders while lying on the stomach.
Creeping: movement that occurs by using the hands and knees to pull the body forward while the stomach is raised off the ground.
Palmer grasp: to scrape up an object with their fingers into palm of their hands.
Pincer grasp: uses their forefinger and thumb.
Food intolerances: reactions to foods that are unpleasant.
Sensorimotor stage: infants move from reflexes to interacting with the world around them using motor skills.
Object permanence: understanding that people, places, or objects still exist even when they are out of sight.
Receptive language: babies understand language much before they can form words.
Trust versus mistrust: the stage for socio-emotional development during infancy.
Attachment: emotional connection between the child and caregiver.
Stranger anxiety: the distress of being left with stranger peaks.
Separation anxiety: when caregiver or parent leaves infant in hands of a stranger.
Unoccupied play: when a baby observes and focuses on an object or activity.
Solitary play: when infant plays alone.
Temperament: interact with the world.
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