Question: what is the difference between the cephalocaudal trend and the proximodistal trend?
Answer: Cephalocaudal trend. ... The cephalocaudal trend is also the trend of infants learning to use their upper limbs before their lower limbs. The proximodistal trend, on the other hand, is the prenatal growth from 5 months to birth when the fetus grows from the inside of the body outwards.