Place your fingers into the baby’s hands and press against the palmar surfaces. The baby will flex all fingers to grasp your fingers
Birth to 3-4 month
Plantar grasp reflex
Touch the sole at the base of the toes. The toes curl
Birth to 6-8 months
Rooting reflex
Stroke the perioral skin at the corners of the mouth. The mouth will open and the baby will turn the head toward the stimulated side and suck.
Birth to 3-4 months
Moro reflex (startle reflex)
Hold the baby supine, supporting the head, and legs. Abruptly lower the entire body about 2 feet. The arms abduct and extend, hands open, and legs flex. Baby may cry
Birth to 4 monthd
Asymmetric tonic neck reflex
With baby supine, turn head to one side, holding jaw over shoulder. The arms/ legs on side to which head is turned extend while the opposite arm/ leg flex. Repeat on the other side.
Birth to 2 months
Trunk incurvation (Galant’s) reflex
Support the baby prone with one hand, and stroke one side of the back 1 cm from midline, from shoulder to buttocks. The supine will curve toward the stimulated side
Birth to 2 months
Landau reflex
Suspend the baby prone with one hand. The head will lift up, and the spine will straighten
Birth to 6 months
Parachute reflex
Suspend the baby prone and slowly lower the head toward a surface. The arms and legs will extend in a protective fashion
8 months and does not disappear
Positive support reflex
Hold the baby around the trunk and lower until the feet touch a flat surface. The hips, knees, and ankles extend, the baby stands up, partially bearing weight, sags after 20-30 seconds
Birth or 2 months until 6 months
Placing and stepping reflexes
Hold baby upright as in positive support reflex. Have one sole touch the tabletop. The hip and knee of that foot will step forward. Alternate stepping will occur
Birth (best after 4 days). Variable age to disappear
Blink Reflex
serves the same purpose as it does in an adult-to protect the eye from any object coming near it by rapid eyelid closure. It may be elicited by shining a strong light such as a flashlight into an eye. A sudden movement toward the eye sometimes can elicit the blink reflex, but this is not as reliable.
Rooting Reflex
If a newborn'scheek is brushed or stroked near the corner of the mouth, the infant will turn the head in that direction.
This reflex serves to help a newborn find food; when a breast brushes the newborn's cheek, the reflex causes the baby to turn toward the breast.
The reflex disappears at about the sixth week of life, not coincidentally at the same time a newborn's eyes focus steadily so that a food source can be seen.
Sucking Reflex
When a newborn's lips are touched, the baby makes a sucking motion. Like the rooting reflex, this reflex also helps a newborn find food. It disappears immediately if it is never stimulated such as in a newborn with a tracheoesophageal fistula who cannot take in oral fluids. It can be maintained in such an infant by offering the child a nonnutritive sucking object such as a pacifier.
Birth to 6 months
Swallowing Reflex
Food that reaches the posterior portion of the tongue is automatically swallowed. Gag, cough, and sneeze refiexes also are present in newborns to maintain a clear airway.
Extrusion Reflex
a newborn extrudes any substance that is placed on the ante rior portion of the tongue.
If newborns are offered solid food before this reflex fades at 4 months, it will look as if they are rejecting the food.
Step (Walk)-in-Place Reflex
Newborns who are held in a vertical position with their feet touching a hard surface will take a few quick, alternating steps
Birth to 3 months
Babinski Reflex
When the sole of a newborn's foot is stroked in an inverted "J" curve from the heel upward, a newborn fans the toes (positive Babinski sign).
This is in contrast to the adult, who hexes the toes if the foot is stroked this way. The reflex remains positive (toes fan) until at least 3 months of age, when it is supplanted by the downturning response.
Magnet Reflex
If pressure is applied to the soles of the feet of a newborn lying in a supine position, they push back against the pressure. This and the two following reflexes are tests of spinal cord integrity.
Crossed Extension Reflex
When a newborn is lying supine, if one leg is extended and the sole of that foot is irritated by being rubbed with a sharp object, such as a thumbnail, the infant raises the other leg and extends it as if trying to push away the hand irritating the first leg.