True or false: birth and milk
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Colostrum contains more protein than mature breast milk.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- Hindmilk is delivered at the start of a feeding.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- A full-term pregnancy lasts about 270 days from conception.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- The Apgar score's two most critical criteria are heart rate and respiration.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- Newborns generate heat mainly by shivering.
- Instructions
- Swipe or tap true or false for each statement.
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology (CC BY 4.0), Ch 28, §Changes in the Composition of Breast Milk & §Homeostasis in the Newborn, p.1341-1353_