Infancy and toddlerhood

• Nonorganic Failure to thrive


  Slowed or arrested physical growth with no known medical cause, accompanied by poor developmental and emotional functioning
• Shaken Baby Syndrome


  Baby has a weak neck muscles, and a large, heavy head, shaking makes the brain bounce back and forth inside the skull
• Respiratory Distress Syndrome


  Lack of surfactant (lung-coating substance) that keeps air sacs from collapsing, commonly faced by preterm babies
• Postmature Babies


  Tend to be long and this because they have kept growing in the womb but have had an insufficient blood supply toward the end of gestation
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome


  Crib death; sudden death of an infant under age 1 which cause of death remains unexplained