Newborn Nutrition
This hormone is responsible for milk ejections or let-down, and also stimulates uterine contractions.
What is oxytocin?
Birth weight below the 10th percentile for gestational age.
What is Small for Gestational Age (SGA)?
This complication of pregnancy includes symptoms of warmth, redness, tenderness, and leg swelling.
What is a DVT?
The process of physical softening and insensibility of the cervix in preparation for labor and birth.
What is Cervical Ripening?
One who is born before the last day of the 37th week following the last menstrual period (LMP).
What is a preterm newborn?
Contraindicated with breastfeeding
What is HIV?
Treatment of choice to decrease levels of unconjugated bilirubin.
What is phototherapy?
During the postpartum period, patient who have asthma are at an increased risk of this pregnancy complication?
What is a hemorrhage?
High-Risk medication that is effective for induction of labor, not as a cervical ripening agent.
What is Oxytocin?
Suturing of the cervix in an attempt to treat cervical insufficiency or prevent preterm birth.
What is Cervical Cerclage?
The most accurate measure of breastfeeding adequacy or evaluation of milk transfer
What is weight gain?
What is Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC)?
This type of diabetes develops during pregnancy and is related to carbohydrate intolerance
What is Gestational Diabetes?
Visually apparent gradual decrease of the fetal heart rate, decrease is delayed in timing, onset to nadir is greater than 30 seconds, and nadir occurs after the peak of the contraction.
What is a late deceleration?
Fetal effects of this drug administered to the mother may result in tachycardia, hyperglycemia, and/or hyperinsulinemia.
What is terbutaline?
The average post-birth weight loss for a newborn
What is 7%
This injury is associated with stretching or tearing the nerve, caused by traction on the shoulder or head at the time of birth.
What is brachial nerve plexus?
What is hypothyroidism?
Transcervical instillation of fluid into the amniotic cavity to alleviate umbilical cord compression, resulting from decreased amniotic fluid or oligohydramnios.
What is Amnioinfusion?
This disorder of pregnancy is defined as an SBP of 140 mm Hg or more or a DBP of 90 mm HG or more, or BOTH, on TWO occasions at least 4 hours apart after 20 weeks gestation in a patient with previously normal BP's.
What is Gestational Hypertension?
This is essential to promote effective breastfeeding and prevent nipple soreness
What is a proper latch?
What is 1-2 hours?
This increases significantly within the first few weeks of gestation and continues to progressively rise, peaking by 30-34 weeks of gestation.
Retraction of the fetal head against the patient's pelvis.
What is Turtle sign?
What is HELLP syndrome?