Cephalocaudal Patterns: Physical Growth And Development

During reading chapter two, the first section talked about the physical growth and development of a newborn. It discussed how the head occupies the proportion of the newborn’s body. Also, it discussed the two patterns that newborns go through when developing. The first pattern is called cephalocaudal pattern. Cephalocaudal pattern is the sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the top. Another pattern discussed is called proximodistal pattern. Proximodistal pattern is the sequence in which growth starts at the center of the body and moves outwards. However, it was interesting to know that the brain weighs about twenty five percent of its adult weight at birth, but weighs about seventy five percent of its adult weight by the second