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Nutrition Through the Life Span: Pregnancy & Infancy

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A man's nutrition may affect his?   fertility  
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Full nutrient stores BEFORE pregnancy are important?   both to conception and to healthy infacnt development  
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What should a women do for a health pregnancy?   Healthy body weight, balanced diet, physically active, med visits, No harmful influences  
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An underweight women have a high risk of having?   an underweight baby  
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Low birthweight babies are at more risk for?   infections  
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Children bored to obese women are?   bigger  
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Maternal obesity may double to risk for?   neural tube defects  
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Obese women may require drugs?   to induce labor or require surgical intervention  
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Babys to women of not a healthy weight increase risks of?   heart defects  
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Why is it so important to have proper nurition while pregenant?   determines whether her uterus will be able to support the growth of a healthy placenta during the first month of gestation  
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What does the placenta do?   Supply depot and waste removal  
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What is the umbilical cord?   the pipeline from the placenta to the fetus  
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What is the amniotic sac?   is surrounds and cradles the fetus, cushoning it with fluids  
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What does the placenta do?   gethers up hormones, nutrients, and protein melcules  
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The placenta also plays a role in preparing?   lactation  
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What is a newly fertilized ovum called?   zygote  
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It begins as a zygote then becomes a?   blastocyst  
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What attaches itself to uterine wall?   blastocyst  
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What is it called when a blastocyst attaches to wall?   implementation  
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What is a zygote at 6 weeks?   embryo  
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What is a embryo become?   fetus  
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After 8 weeks wat does the fetus have?   complete CNS, beating heart, digestive system, fingers, toes, facial features  
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During the last 7 months the fetus grows?   50x heavier and 20 x longer  
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How long are pregnancies?   38-42 weeks  
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What are the 40 weeks of pregnancy divided into?   thirds, trimester  
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What is the critical period?   where organs and tissues develop  
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Early malnutrition?   impairs the heart and brain  
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Later malnutrition?   impairs the lungs  
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The effects of malnutrition during the critical period are?   irreversable  
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What is a high risk pregnancy?   a pregnancy characterized by risk factos that make it likely the birth with be surrounded by problems such as premature delivery, difficult birth, retarded grwoth, birth defects, and early infant death  
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What is low risk pregnancy?   a pregnancy characterized by factors that make is likely the birth will be normal and the infant healthy  
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How do pregnant women meet extra energy demands?   eat more, reduce their activity, some store less of their food energy  
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A pregnant women should eat more?   nutrient dense food  
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What is the role are carbs in pregnancy?   to fuel the brain and spare proten needed for fetal production  
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How much more protein should a pregnant women consume?   25 more grams per day  
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You should not take protein ________ during pregnancy?   supplements  
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The essential fatty acids are important to?   growth and development of the fetus  
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What does the brain need to function, and grow?   omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids  
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What are the vitamins in cell reproduction?   folate, vit. B12  
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How much folate should be consumed during pregnancy?   600 mcg  
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What does the neural tube develop?   brain and spinal cord  
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What is a neural tube defect?   when the tube fails to close  
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What is anencephaly?   where the neural tube fails to close and the brain doesn't develop  
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What is spina bifida?   Where the spinal cord and backbone do not develop  
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Don't eat what while pregnant?   HOTDOG  
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What is the normal birth weight?   7-8 lbs  
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Spina bifida is usually associated with?   paralysis  
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To reduce risk of neural tube defects a women should consume how much folate if they are at risk for pregnancy?   400 mcg folic acid  
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Folic acid supplements are more easily?   absorbed  
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High doses of folate make it difficult to find a?   B12 deficiency  
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Quantities of 1 milligram or more of folate require?   a prescription  
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Insufficient intakes of ______ ________ ________ may produce abnormal fetal bone development?   Ca, Phosphorus, and Mg  
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Intestinal absorption of Ca _____ during pregnancy?   doubles  
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The final weeks of pregnancy how much Ca is tranferred to the fetus?   300 mg  
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When does mineralization of fetus's teech begin?   5 months  
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What helps meneralize fetus's teeth?   flouride  
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Why is there an increase of iron in the body while pregnant?   no period  
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How many mg of iron do you need during 2nd and 3rd trimester?   30 mg from supplements  
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What to prenatal vitamins include?   folate, iron, calcium  
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Who benefits from multivitamin mineral supplements during pregnancy?   not enough eating, those carrying twins or tiplets, smoke, alcohol or drug users  
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What does WIC do?   provides vouchers redeemable for futritious foods, nutrition education, and referrals to health and socal services to low income pregnant and lactating women and their children  
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A sudden weight gain may indicate the onset of?   preeclampsia  
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Weight a pregnant women gains is nearly all _____ tissue?   lean  
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Weight gain is essential for?   a healthy pregnancy  
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What helps to determine appropriate weight gain?   prepregnancy BMI, her own nutrient needs, the number of fetuses she is carrying to determine appropriate weight gain  
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What can harm the baby during physical activity?   dehydration and high body temp  
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What are food aversions?   strong desires to avoid particular foods  
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What is pica?   craving weird food, maybe not food, chalk, tp  
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Pica is associated with?   iron deficiency  
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Why do women have morning sickness?   hormonal changes taking place early in pregnancy  
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Gestational diabetes causes infant?   sickness or death  
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What are the 2 classifications of hypertension during pregnancy?   chronic hypertension, gestational hypertension  
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When does gestational hypertension occur?   20th week  
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Hypertension increases the risk of?   preeclampsia  
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What does high blood pressure increase the risk of?   low birth weight, or the placenta separating from the wall  
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What is preeclampsia?   high blood pressure but also by protein in the urince  
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Preeclampsia affects?   all organs  
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If preeclampsia progresses it causes?   seizures  
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When seizures occur with preeclampsia it is then called?   eclampsia  
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How do you treat eclampsia?   regulate blood pressure and preventing seizures  
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Smoking during pregnancy can cause?   fetal chromosomes  
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Smoking restricts?   the blood supply to the growing fetus and so it limits the delivery of oxygan and nutrients a  
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Cigarette smoking druing pregnancy can cause?   SIDS  
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Even if you don't smoke what can still affect your fetus?   environmental tobacco smoke  
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Pregnant women should stay away from?   herbal products  
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What do drugs cause in the fetus?   CNS damage  
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What can lead and mercury exposure do to fetus?   impaired mental and psychomotor development  
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What will help defend against lead contamination?   Ca  
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Pregnant women should eat fish?   yes a little bit  
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What is listeriosis?   serious foodborne infection that can cause severe brain infection or death in a fetus, found in soil and water  
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What can listeriosis cause?   cause miscarriage, still birth, severe brain damage  
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What are the symptoms of listeriosis?   fever, vomiting, diharrhea  
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What can detect listeriosis?   blood test  
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What vitamin is dangerous to the fetus?   Vit A  
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Fetus's can have a limited ability to metabolize what?   caffeine  
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What can alcohol consumption cause?   brain damage, retardation, facial abnormalities, vision abnormalities  
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What are alchol symptoms called?   fetal alcohol spectrus disorder and Fetal alcohol syndrom  
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What is the biggest causes of mental retardation?   alcohol  
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Mental prob associated with alcohol are called?   alcohol related neurodevelopmental disorder  
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What are physical malformations from alcohol called?   alcohol related birth defects  
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The rate of still births, preterm births and low birthweight are high for?   teenagers  
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How long should you breast feed?   12 months  
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How long should you exclusive breastfeed?   6 months  
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Breasfeed with complementary foods for at least?   12 months  
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How much milk does a nursing women produce a day?   25 oz  
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while breastfeeding a women should consume how much more k calories?   330  
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How long doe sit usually take to get to prepregnancy weight?   6 months  
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Gradual weight loss is safe and does not effect?   milk output  
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Nutritional deprivation of the mother reduces the quantity?   not the quality  
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what are you doing? i know your sexy. i wish we was kissing and you was smiling.. i hope my money comes so we can have a good v-day    
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What vitamins in breast milk are more likely to decline?   B6, B12, A, D  
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What can alter the flavor of breast milk?   strong and spicy flavors  
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How can alcohol affect breast milk?   affects production, composition, and ejection  
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Lactating women who smoke produce?   less milk, milk with lower fat contant  
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If you have HIV you should not?   breast feed  
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An infant grows faster in the _______ ________ than any other time?   first year  
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An infants birthweight triples in?   one year  
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T or F: basal metabolic rate is higher in babies?   T  
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How many k calories to infants need?   1000  
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Breast fed infants need to eat ______ than bottle fed?   more  
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how many breast feedings a day?   8-12  
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How long should you breast feed?   10-15 min  
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What stimulates lactation?   sucking  
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What enhances Ca absorption?   lactose  
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Breast milk also includes?   oligosaccharides  
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What do oligosaccharides do?   protect the infant from infections by preventing the binding of pathogens to the infant's intestinal cells  
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The protein in breast milk is largely?   alpha lactalbumin  
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What provides energy to an infant in breast milk?   lipid  
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What vitamin is not in breast milk?   vit D  
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Vit D is more likely in infants that?   that are not exposed to sunlight daily, have dark pigminted skin, recieves milk without vit D supplementation  
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What are possible supplements for infants?   Vit D, Iron, and Fluoride  
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What is given to infants at birth to prevent bleeding?   Vit K  
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Breast milk offers?   immunological protection  
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Break milk is?   sterile  
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What do the breasts produce after delivery?   colostrum  
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What is colostrum?   a premilk substance containing mostly serum with antibodies and WBC  
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What do oligosaccharides do?   prevent pathogens from binding to intestinal cells  
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What is bifidum factors?   they favor the growth of the friendly bacterium lactobacillus bifidus in the infants digestive tract  
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What does lactoferrin do?   its an iron binding protien that keeps bacteria from getting the iron they need to grow, helps absorb iron into the infant's bloodstream  
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What does lactadherin do?   its a protien in breast milk that binds to and inhibits replication of the virus that causes mort infant diarrhea  
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Breast fed infants have lower?   BP and lower blood cholesterol  
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Protein in cows milk stresses?   the kidneys  
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Special formulas have been designed to meet the dietary needs of infants with conditions like?   prematurity or inherited diseases  
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Infants allergic to milk can drink formulas based on?   soy protein  
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Infant formulas contain no?   protective antibodies  
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How do you prevent nursing bottle tooth decay?   no bottle to bed with child  
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What kind of milk to infants need after breastfeeding?   whole milk  
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in children lower that 6 months of age that have cow's milk will have?   intestinal bleeding  
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Cow's milk is poor in?   iron  
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In the beginning infants intestines cannot digest?   starch  
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When do infants accept complementary food?   4-6 months  
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What are the 3 considerations about the infants readiness to handle different foods?   infant's nutrient needs, the infants physical rediness, and the need to detect and control allergic reactions  
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What are the nutrients that are needed first?   iron and vit c  
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When does the ability to swallow solid food develop?   4-6 months  
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You should introduce foods?   one at a time to prevent allergies  
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Infant foods should be selected to provide?   variety, balance, and moderation  
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By one year babies are ?   drinking from a cup and eating many of the same foods  
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