Caregivers find many ways to help infants interact and respond.
The main debate had centered on whether infants were responding to the numbers of objects or to the patterns the objects made.
Your infant may not respond well to attempts to keep him or her alive.
Some doctors recommend trying to revive all 24- to 25-week newborns and then deciding on further treatment based on how well an infant responds.
Newborn infants respond positively to the smell of their own amniotic fluid, which may serve as evidence for intrauterine olfactory learning.
Intrauterine olfactory learning may be demonstrated by behavioral evidence that newborn infants respond positively to the smell of their own amniotic fluid.
That explained why some infants don't respond to therapy.
These automatic reactions to stimuli enable infants to respond to the environment before any learning has taken place.
Autistic infants show less attention to social stimuli, smile and look at others less often, and respond less to their own name.
In addition to following through on recommended hearing checks, they should pay close attention to how the infant responds to sound.