Health
Why Newborns Tremble or Startle
The first few weeks of newborn life are often a startling experience for the parent — those sudden full-body jerks, the chin-quivering after a cry, th...
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Health
Why Newborns Sneeze So Much (And When It's Not a Cold)
Newborns sneeze a lot — sometimes four or five times in a row, often during or right after a feed, and almost always to the alarm of new parents. In a...
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Health
The Moro Reflex and Other Newborn Reflexes: How They Work
Newborns come with a set of automatic responses that are sometimes startling to first-time parents — a hand reflexively gripping a finger with surpris...
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Development
Newborn Reflexes: What's Normal, What Isn't, and What the NIPE Is Looking For
Most parents witness the Moro reflex in the first 48 hours: lay the baby down too fast and the arms throw out wide, eyes go big, and they cry. It look...
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Development
Newborn Reflexes: A Developmental Timeline From Birth to Integration
A baby's first reflexes are not personality. They are the brainstem doing its job before the cortex is ready. Stroke a newborn's cheek and they root t...
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Development
Essential Newborn Reflexes: What Every Baby Should Have
Within hours of birth, a healthy newborn demonstrates a set of involuntary, automatic movements that have been present since before birth and that rev...
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