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What is anger? Elevated prenatal and cortisol levels caused by excessive maternal stress can cause temperamental, behavioral, emotional, motor, and cognitive problems in infants. Infants of emotionally disturbed women are usually described as restless, ir
An emotion that can be communicated to the fetus via high cortisol and adrenaline and low dopamine and serotonin levels.
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What is Kicking. A fetus is sensitive to mother's stress. For example, when mother eats spicy food, fetus shows stress by kicking.
One way that the fetus lets the mother know he/she is stressed
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What is Myelin. Myelenation also allows neaurons to have faster connections and electrical transmitions.
Sensory brain cells are one of the first to be protected by what layer?
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They are able to hear and respond at 23 weeks.
When is the fetus able to hear and respond to sound?
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What is week 19? The baby is more active with increased muscle development. The brain becomes capable of forming millions of motor neurons, enabling the baby to develop and make muscle movements voluntarily. The timing may vary based on maturation.
This is the week where the mother can begin to feel the baby moving.
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What is fetal movement? A study by DiPietro in 1996, found that fetuses that are very active in the womb tend to be more irritable infants. Those with regular sleep/ wake patterns in the womb sleep more poorly as young infants.
It can predict an infant’s temperament at 3 and 6 months of age.
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What is Sucking. A Fetus is able to suck his/her thumb from 20 weeks of pregnancy.
The self help action that helps a fetus practice to feed themselves
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200,00 a minute!
During the middle part of pregnancy, the brain cells proliferate and differentiate, traveling (also known as migration), create communities (aggregation), and begin synaptic formation.
Guess a number! How many neurons are being created at the peak of neurogenesis?
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True. It is also known that a newborn can recognize music that he or she heard in the womb.
T/F: The older fetus is able to discriminate between different voices, languages, and even individual speech sounds.
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What is thumb sucking? Handedness was thought to be dependent on cerebral lateralization. However, fetuses prefer one thumb to another from as early as 12 weeks. This is before the brain has control over movements.
This usually occurs around 20 weeks. It can help predict the handedness of a baby.
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What is prenatal hearing? Newborns can distinguish their mother’s voice from the voice of other women. One of the most common ways mothers bond with their unborn child is by talking to them. Studies have shown that mothers who resented being pregnant and
This indirectly promotes postnatal bonding.
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What is True. A fetus drinks more amniotic fluid if it tastes sweet.
True or False? Does a fetus has sense of taste?
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What is an embryo! Around this time, the spinal cord, nervous system, heart, lungs, amniotic sac have already formed. Now is the time the facial features, heartbeats, and limb movement come about.
the prenatal being when the brain starts developing
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Yes, babies whose mothers consistently spoke to them or listened to certain theme songs during their pregnancy; a few days after birth when the theme songs were played, babies became alert and recognized the mother's voice and the certain theme songs.
Would babies be able to remember certain theme songs/voices/languages they heard in the womb, once they are born?
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What is fetal movement? For example the breathing like movement a fetus makes at around 9 weeks, prepares the baby to be able to breathe right away.
It helps the brain and nervous system develop well and allows the joints, bones, and muscles to form correctly
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What are emotions? Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have found that a baby’s emotional state begins developing well before the baby’s birth. Fetuses are believed to begin emotional development around six months. By this time a baby’s hearing is almost fully
In the prenatal stage a fetus uses pitch and sound level of voices to determine this?
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What is 9 weeks. A fetus make breathing like movement so that the fetus can breathe right away after birth.
At how many weeks will a fetus start practicing breathing movement?
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What is True! Yawning is a sign of brain development. They are not yawning out of exhaustion, but scientists believe that it deals with cognitive development.
T or F? A fetus yawns more than a born baby?
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By the last trimester of pregnancy fetuses are able to memorize sounds. Newborns prefer their mother voice over other voices. Their ability to distinguish between different languages and pitch changes are based primarily on melody.
In what stage of pregnancy are fetuses able to memorize sounds?
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What is 10-12 weeks? Fine motor skills are motor skills related to the development and coordination of small muscles, such as those that move the fingers and eyes. Early movements are due to reflexes occurring at the spinal cord level.
During these weeks the fetus is able to make a fist with its fingers.
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What is cortisol? Maternal stress and anxiety during pregnancy have been associated with temperamental problems and increased fussiness and problems with attention, attention regulation, emotional reactivity, hyperactivity, inattention in boys, emotional
This is the main hormone related to prenatal stress and infant outcomes.
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What is Hiccups. Hiccups in the womb shows the development of central nervous system.
an adaptive action that prepares a fetus to breathe and not to choke after birth
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What is 22-23 weeks. This is proof of the baby learning, since it can memorize different sounds. Already during the second trimester is the baby showing signs of cognitive development!
Around how many weeks is the baby able to diff b/w diff sounds, which is essential to its development?
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No they do not. A study showed that there are clear differences in the shape of the newborns' cry melodies, based on their mother's tongue.
Do all newborn babies have the same cry melody?
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What is alcohol? Children born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, show delays in motor skill development as infants. Women who drink more than 14 drinks a week are at risk of having children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Drinking this during pregnancy can cause motor skill development delays.
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