PSYC 372 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Apgar Score, Breastfeeding, Muscle Tone
17 May 2020
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The infant comes into the world well prepared. Communication: baby cries = i need something, telling us there"s an issue; take action and hopes you"re affective, list to fix it/of what to do. The burp thing (tend to work for it: if you don"t get them to burp, they throw-up. Uncomfortable: cold/hot, laying on a blanket crease. Board; stimulation: play, hold, talk, show them things, effective parents (primary care providers) respond to this as quickly as possible. Probabilistically, a full time mother is still reigning (but it"s getting lower now in the 21st century) Birth: right at birth the child gets an apgar score (0: not present-2: optimum, heart, respiration, color, muscle tone, neurons system response. 76 degrees or colder room: starts to regulate their own temperature right from birth, reflexive responses, blinking, swimming, etc, sucking & rooting. Rooting: turning to the direction being touched.
