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Your roommate is a smoker. You and he are having an argument because he not only thinks that smoking is okay but also thinks it is fine when a pregnant woman smokes-his mother did. You argue that, among other things, women who smoke when pregnant have newborns who are __________.

By the end of the fourth gestational week, the embryo is __________ long, the head is apparent, and the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears begin to form.

The Apgar scale assesses color, heart rate, breathing, muscle tone and __________.

What type of intervention for low-birth-weight neonates has been shown to be so effective that it is used in more than three-fourths of neonatal intensive care units in the United States?

Approximately when can the stepping reflex be observed?

Which of the following statements about C-sections is true?

What do fetuses do when their mothers are highly stressed?

Adolescents who were born with low birth weight are more likely to __________.

Approximately __________ neonates have a chromosomal disorder.

A cesarean, or C-section delivery ___________.