PREGNANCY
STAGES OF LABOR
THE NEWBORN
HOSPITAL FACTS
100

A mineral that helps in the production of red blood cells and healthy blood supply.

What is Iron?

100
The lower part of the uterus which dilates in the first stage of labor.
What is Cervix?
100
The best source of nutrition for an infant.
What is Breast Milk?
100
Device used during labor to monitor the baby's heart rate.
What is Fetal Monitor?
200
The term used to describe the baby dropping into the lower pelvis during the last few weeks of pregnancy.
What is Lightening?
200
TWO ways a doctor might induce labor
What are Pitocin and breaking the amniotic sac?
200
The white coating that protects the fetus from exposure to the amniotic fluid
What is Vernix?
200
An intensive care unit for newborns with special medical needs. Not the acronym......the full name.
What is Neonatal Intensive Care Unit?
300
A medical problem in pregnant mother characterized by high blood pressure and presence of protein in the mother's urine?
What is Preeclampsia?
300
The baby's head has these which helps it through the birth canal.
What are fontanels?
300
Occurs when the liver cannot remove bilirubin from the blood.
What is Jaundice?
300
TWO forms of anesthesia for women in labor.
What epidurals and local anesthetics (paracervical block, saddle block, or pudential block)?
400

A form of diabetes that occurs only during pregnancy?

What is Gestational Diabetes?

400
The names of the three stages of labors.
What are Dilation Expulsion Afterbirth?
400
A scale used at birth to visually assess the newborn's level of muscle tone, response to stimulation, skin color, breathing, and heart rate.
What is the APGAR scale?
400
Premature babies must be able to do these things before leaving the hospital. (There are three things.)
What is drink (eat) on their own, maintain their own body temperature, and breathe on their own?
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