Learning Goal

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Students will be able to describe a newborn.

• Learning Goal
• 9-30-13

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Mind Mapping
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Looks
Apgar
Newborns
reflexes
Senses
Care
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Apgar Test p. 237

• Medical checkup to detect any problems right
  after delivery
• Scores taken at 1 minute and again at 5 minutes
• 7 ?
• 4-6 -/
• Less than 4 -0

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How does a newborn look?

• Face
• Head
• BODY

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• Flat nose
• Lots/no hair
• Blotchy/wrinkled skin
• Misshapen head
• Eyebrows, eyelashes barely visible
• Receding chin
• Oversized head
• No neck
• Sloping shoulders
• Protruding abdomen
• Bowed legs
• Fast heart beat and respiration
• 20-21 long
• 7 7 ½ pounds

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Why do babies have reflexes?
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Reflexes

• Automatic reactions to certain stimuli
• Some related to survival instinct
• Some related to functions the baby will use later
• Some seem to exist for no reason at all

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Types of Reflexes

• Placing
• Stepping
• Rooting
• Palmer grasp
• Moro (Startle)
• Tonic neck
• Swimming
• Babinski
• Page 266

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Senses

• Vision
• 8-10
• Black and white, geometric, lines
• Hearing
• Before birth
• Doesnt need silence to sleep
• Touch
• Swaddling
• cuddling

• Taste
• Distinguish sweet, sour, bitter
• Prefers??
• Smell
• Mom
• Breastfed moms milk

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What makes these books great for baby?
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Caring for Newborns

• Feeding
• Dressing
• Sleeping
• Diapers
• Bathing

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Feeding
Bonding

• 2 oz. every 3-4 hours
• Warm
• Burp after 2 oz
• No juice or milk
• No bottle at bedtime

• Colostrum
• Weight loss
• Every 1-4 hours
• Burp after 5 minutes

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Weaning

• Replacing a bottle or breast-feeding with a cup
• Usually by 12 months
• Biters beware
• Sub one feeding with cup then increase cup use
  slowly decreasing bottle/breast-feeding

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Failure the Thrive

• Growth significantly below average
• Skill development delayed also
• Causes
• Poor nutrition
• Lack of emotional/social bond
• Environmental hazards
• Medical problems

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Dressing a Newborn

• Be Gentle
• Guide quickly
• Minimize the need to move the babys body
  position, arms, legs
• Keep the baby from being cold
• Talk to baby while dressing

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Diapering

• 6-10 diapers per day
• Rash
• Exposure to urine or feces
• Changing
• Be prepared
• Never leave baby unattended

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Bathing baby

• Sponge Bath
• Circumcision care
• Till umbilical cord falls off
• 3 weeks

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Bathing Tipsp.292-293

• Never leave baby alone!!
• Calm, warm environment
• Tub baths dip elbow to test temperature
• Shampoo hair 1-2 times a week
• Hooded towel?

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Sleeping Newborns?
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Sleeping

• 16-20 hours per day
• Wake at 2-4 hour intervals
• Depends on baby
• Most sleep through the night at 3 months

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Should Baby conform to your schedule?
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How can you soothe a crying baby?

• Page 282-283

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Crying

• Normal the only way babies can communicate
• Newborns only cry when they need
  somethingparents must respond
• Teaches baby to trust
• Cries
• Hunger
• Pain
• Attention
• Colic
• Purple Period
• Peak, Unexpectedly, Resists soothing, Pain-like
  face, Long-lasting, Evening
• Parents remain calm!!