KINE 3340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Psychological Abuse, Endocrine System, Fetus
29 May 2014
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Measuring body weight: electronic digital scale for those who can stand, and platform scale for infants. Infant can be carried on electronic digital scale by parents, and parents weight subtracted. Infant is double birth weight at 6 months: rate of weight gain slows toward the middle and later part of the first year, end of 1st year: boys- 22. 5 lbs, girls 21 lbs. Stature and weight: constraints on motor development: overweight and obese infants demonstrated a significant delay in motor development when compared with normal-weight infants. 1 year later, a follow-up examination revealed that a majority of the motor-delayed infants were developing normally: during adolescence and adulthood, the interrelationship of weight and height to skilled motor performance becomes task specific. Changes in sitting height: at birth, sitting height is 85% of total body length, by 6 years of age, its 55% of total body length.
