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Grasping Reflexs
The grasping reflex for newborns is the response to a touch on the palm of the hand. These traits are inherited, automatic, coordinated movement patters. -
Rooting Reflexs
Rooting reflex alerts the newborn that if it is touch around the mouth that it is guided to it. It also allows the infant to suck, breathe aurm and swallow milk twice a scound without it getting confused. -
Brith Physical Traits
At birth an infant can weigh from 5.5 to 10 lbs. Also they can be between 18 to 22 inches in length. -
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Child Development
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Language Development
At the age of 3 to 6 months an infant will start to babble, in response to noise around it. -
Perceptual Development
Infants between 4 and 6 months of age feel themselves being touched by a person or object and look around, trying to find the source of the touch. -
Perceptual Development
At the age of 7 months the infants begins to follow objects with both of its eyes. -
Language Development
Between 7 and 12 months an infants will vary their pitch as in asking a questions or a statement. -
Perceptual Development
At the age of 9 months the infant gets better sensory perception. An infant will sticks its nose in to soft things to smell them. -
Physcial Development
At the age of 10 months the child should start to crawl. -
Language Development
Between 10-14 months of age infants increasingly coordinate their pointing and babbling. -
1 Year Traits
Some infants by the age of 1 can be 20 to 25 lbs. -
Physical Development
At the age of 12 months on a child should start walking.