Infant
Formal or specialised synonym for the common term baby, meaning the very young offspring of human beings.
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Infant formula
Infant formula, baby formula or just formula (American English) or baby milk, infant milk, false milk, or first milk (British English), is a manufactured food designed and marketed for feeding to babies and infants under 12 months of age, usually prepared for bottle-feeding or cup-feeding from powder (mixed with water) or liquid (with or without additional water).
Preterm birth
Preterm birth, also known as premature birth, is the birth of a baby at fewer than 37 weeks gestational age, as opposed to full-term delivery at approximately 40 weeks.
Fontanelle
A fontanelle (or fontanel) (colloquially, soft spot) is an anatomical feature of the infant human skull comprising soft membranous gaps (sutures) between the cranial bones that make up the calvaria of a fetus or an infant.
Umbilical cord
Conduit between the developing embryo or fetus and the placenta.
The umbilical cord in a full term neonate is usually about 50 centimeters (20 in) long and about 2 centimeters (0.75 in) in diameter.
Fetus
Unborn offspring that develops from an animal embryo.
When such premature babies are born, the main causes of mortality are that the respiratory system and the central nervous system are not completely differentiated.
Diaper
Type of underwear that allows the wearer to urinate or defecate without using a toilet, by absorbing or containing waste products to prevent soiling of outer clothing or the external environment.
Diapers are primarily worn by infants, toddlers who are not yet toilet trained, and by children who experience bedwetting.
Pediatrics
Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents.
Milk
Nutrient-rich liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals.
In almost all mammals, milk is fed to infants through breastfeeding, either directly or by expressing the milk to be stored and consumed later.
Nipple
Raised region of tissue on the surface of the breast from which, in females, milk leaves the breast through the lactiferous ducts to feed an infant.
The physiological purpose of nipples is to deliver milk, produced in the female mammary glands during lactation, to an infant.