A clinical study of the abdominal skin reflexes in newborn infants

Abstract

According to well-known text-books on neurology and paediatrics, the abdominal skin reflexes in newborn infants are present only in a relatively small number of cases and are of an irregular pattern. All of 200 full-term healthy infants in the first week of life were found to have abdominal skin reflexes of a definite pattern. The theories concerning the abdominal skin reflexes are discussed.