1. Birth and Physical Development

2. Birth

3. Preparing for Childbirth  Psychoprophylactic Method encouraged women to relax and concentrate on breathing during contractions.  Natural Childbirth  Obstetrician

4. Birthing Accommodations  Midwifery  Birthing Rooms  Rooming in  Birthing Centers

5. Stages of the Birth Process  Birth  Lightening  Labor  Delivery  Crowning  Neonate  Afterbirth

6. The Baby’s Birth Experience  Leboyer  Electronic Fetal Monitoring  Newborn Appearance  The Apgar Test  Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale

7. Parent-Infant Bonding  Process of interaction and mutual attention that occurs over time and builds an emotional bond.  Maternal bonding  Paternal bonding

8. Complications of Pregnancy and Birth  Caesarian section delivery  Placenta praevia  Breech or transverse presentation

10. At-Risk Infants  Premature infants and small-for-term infants  Postmature infants  Babies born with drug exposure  Babies born with HIV  Babies with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome  Babies with prenatal exposure to chemical toxicants

11. Support for Babies with Disorders  Public Law 99-457: Early Intervention Services for Infants Born at Risk  Infant Mortality:  Stillbirth

12. Postpartum Experience for Mom and Dad  Postpartum period: lasts several weeks.  Postpartum depression (PPD)

13. Development of Basic Competencies

14. Newborn States  Peter H. Wolff’s states  Reflexes  Sleeping  SIDS

15. Crying  The Language of Crying  Shaken Baby Syndrome  Soothing the Infant

16. Feeding  On-Demand Feeding  Breast-Feeding  Formula (Bottle) Feeding  Additional Cautions Regarding Nutrition  Graduating to “Regular” Foods

17. Brain Growth and Development  Norms  Difference in rate of maturation  Similarity in sequence of developmental change

18. The Rate of Growth of Key Systems and the Brain

20. The Newborn and Brain Development  Diagnostics and Imaging  Environmental Stimulation Factor  Principles of Development  Cephalocaudal  Proximodistal

21. Motor Development  Rhythmic Behaviors  Locomotion  Manual Skills

22. Sensory Development  Vision  Visual Constancy  Depth Perception  Perception of Form  Hearing  Taste and Smell  Cutaneous Senses  Circumcision  Interconnections Among the Senses

23. Perception of the Human Face