PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Primitive Reflexes, Frontal Lobe, Ethology
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There are critical periods in prenatal development to prevent this and wipe out gonorrhoea if the mother had it! Hiv/aids 20% of infants born from mother with aids will also have it and problem. damage near eyes and ears. Syphilis 25% chance that mother will have baby with physical and mental. Brain vision, auditory will all be affected although if the mother gets the needle later in development there is nothing major affected because all the major organs are formed. Rubella is a teratogen and is devastating in firs three months of gestation. Diabetes more at risk for having infants with circulatory and respiratory. Gonorrhoea mother has it in vaginal area and baby will get it and the virus will destroy eyes high change of blindness. 90% will be dead by the time they"re three. Two ways that the baby gets it is either from the mother directly, exposed to bodily fluid.
