Infant Development

Gradual process of taking infants off the breast or bottle.

• colic

• weaning

• solids

• breast-feeding

Breast-feeding expert.

• lactation consultant

• obstetrician

• mechanic

• Walgreens clerk

Automatic, unlearned movements in response to stimuli.

• reflexes

• colic

• developmental milestones

• birth defects

Physical, intellectual, and social-emotional tasks most children learn to accomplish by a certain age.

• developmental milestones

• achievements

• records

• magic tricks

Medical term used to describe the baby from birth to one month of age.

• infancy

• childhood

• neonate

• toddler stage

The stage of a baby’s development from one month to one year’s age:

• infancy

• childhood

• neonate

• toddler stage

Failure to grow at a healthy rate is called _____________.

• failure to thrive

• motor development

• SIDS

• developmental milestones

The use and control of muscles that direct body movement:

• failure to thrive

• motor development

• SIDS

• developmental milestones

When you touch a newborn’s cheeks or skin around the mouth, the baby searches for food, turning the head and moving the mouth. This is the ________________ reflex.

• rooting

• moro

• searching

• sucking

The condition in which a sleeping baby dies without warning and for medically unexplained reasons:

• failure to thrive

• motor development

• SIDS

• developmental milestones