Chapter 7 Physical Development of the Infant

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Human development is completed sooner than development in other living creatures.

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Teeth are part of a humans skeletal system

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The head-to-toe measurement for babies is referred to as length because a baby does not stand at birth. 

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body proportions of infants are so similar to those of adults that infants look much like miniature adults

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newborns are flexible because large spaces between the bones help the joints bend easily without breaking 

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motor development includes gross-motor skills 

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infants are more similar with regard to the order of their development than to the rate of this development

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babies usually roll from back to front before they roll from front to back

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sitting without support requires so much concentration that a baby is apt to topple over if distracted

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the chubby newborn begins to lose fat deposits under the skin soon after birth.

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