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| process of uterine, cervical, and othe rchnages, usually lasting about two weeks preceding childbirth. |
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| electronic fetal monitoring? |
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| mechanical monitoring of fetal heartbeat during labor and delivery. |
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| deliver of a baby by surgical removal from the uterus. |
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| seaks to elminante pain to elminating the mother's fear through education. tells the mothe rof what to expect during childbirth. neonatal period? |
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| this method uses instruction wiht breathing classes and social support to elp through the process. |
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| first four weeks of life, transition form dependency to independent existance. |
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| new born baby up to four weeks. |
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| lack of oxygen which may cause brain damage. |
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| fetal waste matter excreeded during the first few days after birth. |
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| yellowish skin in newborns causes by immatuirty of the liver, if not dealt wiht promtly it can cause brian damage. |
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| the infant's degree of alertness in stages of wakefullness activity and sleep. |
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standard measurments of a newborn's condition. 1 min. after delivery and 5 min after birth.
they look for
1. appearance (color)
2. pulse (heart rate)
3. grimance (reflex ability)
4. activity (muslce tone)
5. respiration (breathing) |
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| brazelton neonatal behavioral assement scale NBAS |
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| neruological and behavioral test to measure neonate's responses to environment. |
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| injury sustained at time of birht. |
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| refferring to a fetus not yet born as of 2 weeks after the due date. |
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| less thna 5 1/2 punds after birht |
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| preterm infants (premature)? |
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| born before 37 weeks of gestation. |
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| birthwieght less than 90% of babies of the same age. Due to slow fetal growth. |
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| influences that reduce the impact of early tests? |
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| proportion of babies born alive who die within the first year. |
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| sudden infant death syndrome? (SIDS) |
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| sudden and unexplained death of a normally helahty child. |
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| CNS Central nevous system? |
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| tendency of each of the brain's hemispheres to have specialized functions. |
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| responsible forbreathing, heart rate, body temp. sleep wake cycle. |
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| maintains balance and motor cordenations. |
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| largest part of the brain, grows fastest during first part of life has a left hemisphere and a right. |
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| largest part of the brain, grows fastest during first part of life has a left hemisphere and a right. |
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| a band of tissue which joins the two side sof the brain. allows them to share information and cordinate commands. |
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| brain is made up of neurons and glidals cells. |
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| neurons send and recieve info. glidal support and proctect neurons. |
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| narrow branching extensions. axoms send signal and the dentrites recieve those signals. |
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| inbetween the two is are synapses? |
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| these are the conversation spot or the CNS communication links. |
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| neurotransmitters go through the synapes to the receiving cell. |
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| the process by which neurons codinate the activites of muslce groups. they codinate their activite swiht one another. |
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| through this process each neuron take son a specialized structure and function. |
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| elimination of excess brian cells to acheive more effiect functioning. |
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| process of coating neurons with fatty substance myelin that enables faster communication between the cells. |
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| automatic involuntary responses to stimuli. |
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| modifiability, or molding of the brian through experiance. |
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moro--loud noise
darwin--baby is stroked
tonic neck--laid on back
babinski--palm is stroked, maybe both
rooting--sucking
waling
swimming-- |
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touch, pain
smell, taste
hearing
sight |
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| cobination pof increasingly complex set of skills provide more movement and control of environment. |
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| denever developmental screening test? |
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| detirmine whether they are developing normally. given 1 month to 6 years old. |
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| physcial skills thta involve the large muscles. |
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| pysical skills thta invovle the small muscles and hand eye coordination. |
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head control
hand control
locomotion |
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| babies motor development and perception-- visual guidance? |
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| the use of eyes to guide the movement of the hands..babies see and reahc. |
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| assesses depth perception in infants. |
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| ability to percieve objects and surfaces three dimensionally. |
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| ability to acquire information about properties of objects such as size wieght and texture. |
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| the infants ability to size up their own capabilites and physical attribute to the task. this is their physical perception. |
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| ecological theory of perception? |
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| sensory and motor activity are coordinated from birth, more less, this grows wiht age. the developing motor and preception are interdependant parts of a funcitonal system that guides behavior. |
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