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Infant
* All infants are always under direct observation during sleep
  - born with a whitish buff coat that turns black over the first two years of life
  - individuals, and they vary in how much formula or breast milk they take per feeding
  - eat, sleep, and play on their own, unique daily schedules
  - have many reflexive behaviors
  - receive infant cereal and infant juice after three months of age
  - sometimes pause when they breathe, but some infants pause longer than others
* Many infants also have some weight loss in the first week.
* Many infants are allergic to wheat cereals
  - bone with multiple fractures
  - die as a direct result of their mothers' inadequate diets
  - drink between one and two quarts of milk on a daily basis
* Many infants have a period of frequent feedings, usually in the evening to early night
  - episodes of wheezing associated with viral respiratory illnesses
  - more than one disability
  - nurse poorly and sometimes cough and choke during feeding
  - outgrow allergies
  - prefer to sleep on their tummies because doing so relieves gas pains
  - recover complete or near complete function with occupational therapy
  - regain their birth weights by one week of age
* Many infants require intubation and prolonged mechanical ventilation
  - the placement of a cardiac pacemaker
  - seem to have day and night mixed up, they sleep all day and are awake at night
  - start having trouble sleeping through the night
* More infants die each year in accidents involving cribs than with any other nursery product
  - every year in accidents involving cribs than with any other nursery product
* Most infants are sleepy for the first two days
  - term and borderline small for gestational age
* Most infants bear to depress mothers
* Most infants become children
  - ready to try solid foods when they are between four and six months of age
* Most infants benefit from food
  - rich food
  - born with anencephaly only survive a couple of hours after birth
* Most infants breathe and cry immediately after birth
  - very rapidly if they have any respiratory problem
* Most infants consume breast milk
  - depend on mothers
* Most infants develop ages
  - dietary habits
  - senses
* Most infants die during the second year of life
  - within the first year
  - double their birth weight in six months and triple it in a year
  - drink milk
  - eat diets
  - enter life
* Most infants exhibit movement
  - muscle movement
* Most infants exhibit voluntary movement
  - explore environments
* Most infants feed breast milk
  - cow milk
* Most infants feed whole cow milk
  - first come in contact with yeast as they travel down the birth canal
  - follow parents
  - gain weight
* Most infants get coughs
  - hiccups
  - grow into adults
* Most infants have a cleft lip and cleft palate and low-set ears
  - fussy period
  - development
  - difficulty with eating, digesting food and breathing
  - exposure
  - limbs
  - mental development
  - normal mental development
  - skin
  - survival
  - ingest milk
  - lack ability
* Most infants learn from mothers
  - to walk, manipulate objects and can form basic words by the end of infancy
  - leave the center in disposable diapers because few parents use cloth diapers at home
  - live in homes
* Most infants maintain stability
  - thermal stability
* Most infants make sound
  - vocal sound
  - prefer to look at moving objects with distinct shapes
  - produce the enzyme lactase at birth, but the amount tends to decrease by adulthood
  - reach ages
  - receive nutrients
* Most infants recover following supportive care in a hospital
  - from botulism with hospital care
  - respond to pain
  - return to mothers
  - share environments
* Most infants show characteristic facial expression
  - growth
  - symptoms of the disorder shortly after birth
* Most infants sleep in rooms
  - same rooms
  - start out eating well and gaining well
  - stay with mothers
* Most infants stop spitting up before their first birthday
  - when they spend more time upright
  - suffer from the moderate to severe form of the disease and require hospitalization
* Most infants survive first years
  - tend to cry between one to four hours a day
  - tolerate any food a mother eats
* Most infants use fingers
  - hands
  - mouths
  - wear diapers
* Most infants weigh kgs
  - pounds
* Some infants also develop a fever after being vaccinated.
* Some infants are exquisitely sensitive to cow milk and can lose large quantities of blood
  - extremely active, moving their arms and legs incessantly
  - seriously ill or die shortly after birth because of heart defects
  - so sick that they require multiple medical interventions every day
  - very quiet and sleep a lot
* Some infants become dependent on having feedings to soothe themselves and put themselves to sleep
  - begin sucking their thumb while in their mother s womb
  - born to moms with thyroid disease have imbalances as well
  - calm down to rhythmic motion such as rocking, walking, or riding in a car or stroller
* Some infants can have effects
  - harmful effects
* Some infants can present because of red blood mixed in stools
  - with pronounced protein-losing symptoms after introduction of cow's milk
  - cause production
  - climb into pouches
* Some infants cry at certain times
  - very little while others cry a great deal
* Some infants develop a lot of gas or diarrhea while on formula
  - rash that looks like eczema
  - diseases
  - excess gas or diarrhea while on formula
  - repetitive hand movements and fiddling
* Some infants die during incidents
  - labor, but others survive the procedure
  - periods
  - in hospitals
  - of measles
* Some infants die over periods
  - year periods
* Some infants die within month periods
  - draw their legs up and clench their fists, as if in pain
  - eat rice
* Some infants experience catabolic states
  - frequent crying and fussiness at feeding time
  - feed on soy
* Some infants have a genetic inability to use biotin
  - clefts of both the lip and the palate
  - coats
  - cognitive bias
  - concentration
  - constipation
  - evidence of coexisting airway hyperreactivity
  - excretion patterns
  - fur
  - immunity
  - minor, correctable, or ongoing medical needs
  - monkeys
  - only mild breathing problems while eating
  - proteins
  - seizures or tetany due to low calcium levels
  - values
  - hold heads
  - increase secretion
  - inhale corticosteroids
  - live in poverty
  - move bags
  - only exhibit problems as they experience increasing textures in their food
* Some infants reach height
* Some infants react to certain formulas and develop pain in the stomach and intestinal area
  - the stress of circumcision by becoming more active
  - receive glucose
* Some infants recover from acute gastroenteritis
  - respond best to quick strokes and kisses and others prefer a longer, slower caress
  - seem to tolerate significant trauma from birth, without ill effect
  - separate from mothers
  - spit up or throw up so frequently that they are said to have gastroesophageal reflux
  - stay in pouches
* Some infants suffer from illnesses
  - recur illnesses
* accompany mothers.
* acquire information by listening.
* also die more often during winter months
  - recognize the smell of their mother's breast
  - require histidine, a ninth essential amino acid
  - sleep in their mothers nest
  - use eye contact to form a bond with parents
* appear to be more sensitive to the laxative action of sulfate than adults
  - have some success in segmenting speech even during their first year of life
* are active individuals who needs stimulation through activity and movement
  - also sensitive to the emotions of others and they try to understand their meaning
* are at a higher risk for congenital abnormalities and some infectious conditions
  - greater risk from falls associated with furniture, stairs and baby walkers
  - greatest risk of developing methemoglobinemia from excessive intake of nitrate
  - highest risk of being seriously injured and killed in cases of maltreatment
  - risk of exposure to the pesticides through their mothers' breast milk
  - birth to one year
* are born once a year
  - so fully developed that they are able to run and jump an hour after birth
* are born with a black natal coat that changes to the adult coloration as they age
  - their eyes open and fully furred and are able to groom themselves
  - capable of sleep
  - children aged less than one year
  - completely white at birth but gain full adult coloration around four months
  - dark in coloration and lighten after about one year
  - entirely dependent upon their mother, father or guardian
* are especially sensitive to the effects of phenylpropanolamine
  - of pseudoephedrine
  - vulnerable in the first four weeks of life
  - fragile and have little physiological reserve
  - given an injection of vitamin K at birth
  - heart rate dependent for their cardiac output
  - helpless at birth, so they get rides by clinging to their mothers
  - in caring, encouraging environments outside the home
  - incredibly tiny at birth, and are very helpless
  - individuals with differing temperaments
  - kinesthetic creatures who organize the world through sensorimotor exploration
* are large and precocial at birth
  - in comparison to their parents' body mass and grow quickly
  - less likely to have ear infections in the first year of life
  - meconium stained at birth
* are more susceptible to nitrate toxicity than older children or adults
  - vulnerable to injuries and infections
  - most vulnerable in the second and third months of life
  - much more likely than adults to become sensitized to food allergens
  - new converts who necessarily require ministering by others
  - normally interested in social, as opposed to nonsocial environments
  - often more sensitive to sulfate than adults
  - particularly susceptible to effects of indoor air pollutants
  - showered with affection and attention by both women and men of all ages
  - social creatures from the day they are born
  - susceptible to tooth decay even before they cut all their teeth
  - symptomatic immediately or soon after birth
  - too young to get vaccinated
  - usually small in height and weight
* are very alert and develop normal intelligence
  - different from children
  - vulnerable to maltreatment in often unique ways
* become independent from their mothers between the fourth and fifth weeks of life.
* begin smiling when they are two months old and laughing when they are four months old
  - taking oral zidovudine shortly after birth and continue until they are one week old
* bom to alcoholic mothers can also have undescended testes and labial hypoplasia.
* born in multiple births are smaller than infants born as singletons
  - of immune mothers have antibodies for upto six months of their lives
  - to anemic mothers often suffer from low birth weight and anemia themselves
* born to infected mothers can acquire the infection during passage through the birth canal
  - often become chronic carriers
* born to mothers infected with the disease can also experience serious complications
  - who received inadequate or no prenatal care are often of low birthweight
  - parents who have allergies are more likely to develop asthma in childhood
  - teen-age mothers have a lower chance of survival because of low birth weights
  - women with chlamydia can develop eye infections and pneumonia
* born with anencephaly usually die at birth or within the first days after birth
  - duodenal atresia begin vomiting large amounts of material shortly after birth
* breastfed by mothers using cocaine can suffer seizures and extreme irritability.
* can also sense movement early on
  - alter the loudness, pitch and frequency of their sounds to express different moods
  - be outdoors for short periods of time
  - become dehydratedquickly from vomiting and diarrhea
  - contract the disease from the mother at birth, or from the mother's breast milk
* can develop lung infections and blindness
  - the flu, especially if there is contact with school-age children
* can distinguish fathers from other adults early
  - people from other animals and both from inanimate objects
* can drown in a bucket that has water in it
  - just a few inches of water
  - one inch of water
* can eat and swallow semi-solid food from a spoon
  - well and grow properly when parents feed on demand
  - follow back and forth motions as early as three days after birth
  - grow poorly, tire easily, and breathe rapidly
* can have depression, as can people well into their second century on earth
  - one to several bowel movements in a day
  - normally have pauses in breathing
  - often drift off to sleep in spite of noise from vacuum cleaners, TVs and noisy siblings
  - regulate their own milk intake
  - show non-organic failure to thrive, anxiety, and inadequate social responses
  - start sudden unexpected crying some time after food
  - strangle when cords are tied around their necks
  - suffer head, face and bodily injuries
  - tell their mothers from other mothers in three days
* carry no inherited sin nature, although they each do eventually choose to sin.
* change before our very eyes
  - positions about once a minute
* circumcisionviolates the universal human right of anyone to have normal intact genitalia.
* commonly show a fearful response to loud noise or the sudden loss of physical support.
* communicate mostly through crying.
* consume amounts
  - up to one-third of their daily calories during night feedings
* count as one person.
* cry as a form of basic instinctive communication
  - because they are uncomfortable or distressed
  - like a baby, and young ones scream and throw tantrums
  - when they are hungry, then they satiate themselves according to their needs
  - and change so quickly, that every day really does count
  - distress when the cyst becomes hyperinflated with breathing
  - motor skill from the center of the body outward
* display low muscle tone and irregular breathing patterns.
* do have a higher metabolic rate than children and adults.
* eat, sleep and cry when they are wet or soiled.
* empty their bladders by reflex.
* enjoy looking at pictures of other people, especially other babies.
* everywhere have the same developmental potential.
* excrete mercury more slowly than adults.
* experience adverse reaction
* find comfort in breastfeeding, sucking on a pacifier, and being rocked.
* gain control of their head and facial movements with the first few months
  - knowledge by using all of their senses
* generate multiple spontaneous movements in the early months of life.
* get adequate fat and protein from breastmilk or infant formula
  - mercury toxicity from vaccinations because of the mercury-containing compound thimerosal
  - to three times their birth weight by their first birthday
* have a cry reflex that normal, involuntary response to a stimulus
  - greater susceptibility to illness as a result of their age
* have a higher rate of many foodborne illnesses than adults
  - risk for cancer development with exposures because of rapid cell division
  - natural ability to know when they are hungry and when they are full
  - number of reflexes that are inhibited later in development
  - philosophy about life and their place in the scheme of things
  - relatively large head and therefore brain
  - adult-like brain specializations for processing music
  - amazing capacity to distinguish all the sounds of the world s languages
  - difficulty gaining enough energy and nutrients for healthy growth and development
  - far fewer antibodies to botulinum toxin than do adults
  - great difficulty
  - heartbeats
  - large heads as well ventricles because of their flexible skull
  - little knowledge of environment
  - mild symptoms
  - needs, wants, and behaviors that can differ greatly from one another
  - pulses
  - requirements
  - rights
  - severe muscle atrophy, weakness, and sensory problems
* have the highest normal temperature , which decreases as people age
  - same type of incision as adults
  - their own unique nutritional and developmental needs
  - well-developed senses of touch, hearing, and smell
* inherit their mothers' ranks and rank also seems to play a role in conception and outcome.
* initially have little control over the use of their trunks
  - vocalize primarily when moving
* is child from birth to eighteen months of age.
* learn about the world through touch, sight, sound, taste and smell
  - their world by mouthing objects
  - actively by moving, grabbing, tasting and hearing
  - language by using an innate sense of probability to understand words as well as music
  - mostly through trial and error learning
  - techniques
* learn through sight, sound and touch
* learn to crawl, then to walk and talk
  - regulate their behavior and soothe themselves with direction from their parents
  - speak through observing others speak
* look and act differently.
* lose body heat quickly.
* love motion and closeness to a warm body-something they enjoyed in the womb
  - to be cuddled and held and talked to
* love to look at human faces and eyes, bright primary colors, and simple designs
  - interesting shapes and colors
* lying face down are vulnerable to re-breathing expelled air.
* make important discoveries about changes of state and changes of position
  - sounds that imitate the tones and rhythms of adult talk
  - up for loss of night feedings by eating more during daytime feedings
* means persons under one year of age.
* metabolize caffeine very slowly.
* nap as needed, and older children generally sleep in the afternoons after lunch.
* naturally start life being self-centered.
* need diets
  - fat diets
* normally cry two to four hours per day during the first three months
  - develop attachments to more than one person
  - seem to cross their eyes until about three months of age
* nurse for months
* often appear blue in colour, as they have little fur when they are born
  - develop an intense fear of adults, lose their appetite and scream incessantly
  - grow out of cows' milk intolerance
  - have seizures and high fevers associated with a secondary infection
* open eyes.
* play more frequently than adults.
* progress rapidly through physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional development.
* rapidly absorb the content of their environments and interactions.
* react differently than adults to the high levels of disease-fighting phytoestrogens in soy
  - to fathers differently than they do to mothers
* remain at centers.
* remember the order of words in a spoken sentence.
* represent the group at greatest risk for severe illness, disease complications and death.
* require a great deal of time and attention
  - fat in their diet for normal growth and development
  - many nutrients early in life, including lipids such as fats
  - monitors
  - sounds by blinking or startling
* seem to be particularly sensitive to the toxin in honey.
* sink into depression and die without it.
* sleep as often as necessary and according to individual schedules.
  - their mother's nest until they are about three years of age
* sometimes get relief by chewing on something
  - have umbilical hernias
* speak many languages before they find one that grown-ups can understand.
* spend most of the day asleep.
* start life as egocentrics, as they are unable to think of another person's point of view
  - sleeping longer as a result of weaning rather than the style of breastfeeding
  - to wean when they are given anything other than breast milk
* suffer birth injuries, fall, and are occasionally subjected to abuse at home
  - from issues
  - injury twice as often as children who are older
* take about a year for the bones of the neck to fully develop regardless of their size
  - breaths
* teach themselves to cry when they are hungry or hurt.
* tend to develop diarrhea when their breastfeeding mother eats a lot of sweets
  - falter in the rate of weight gain from the time of weaning
* to become adults
* to gain much weight
* touch and rub their genitals because it provides pleasure.
* understand the prosody of speech, long before they understand the words.
* use action schemes, such as pushing and grasping, to make interesting things happen
  - all their senses to learn about the world
  - different muscles in the same spatial regions before vs. after they learn to reach
  - only the abdominal muscles to breathe
  - other forms of vocalizing, such as cooing and babbling, to communicate with parents
  - senses and motor activities to explore environment and develop new schemas
  - sheepskin or a padded blanket to protect skin
* use their hands and eyes to play
  - senses to learn about their world
* usually acquire the yeast from their mothers during passage through the birth canal
  - cry when they get circumcised
  - die of pneumonia or other infections before reaching four years of age
  - swallow pieces of food whole without chewing
  - on average one or two pounds at birth
* will have better chances
+ Fever: Symptoms :: Medical signs
  * Infants have the highest normal temperature, which decreases as people age. Some animals, especially small ones like rabbits and cats, also have a higher normal temperature than humans.
+ Sudden infant death syndrome: Syndromes :: Death
  * Babies are at the highest risk for SIDS during their sleep. Infants also die more often during winter months.
+ Tay-Sachs disease: Diseases
  * Infants usually die of pneumonia or other infections before reaching four years of age. The disease is very rare in the common population, but common in Jewish families. There is no known treatment for this disease, however there is a cheap blood test that helps prevent this disease.