Parenting Prep
These are the 4 primary ways that couples should prepare for parenthood.
What are spiritually, financially, emotionally, and physically?
The inability to regulate blood sugar levels during pregnancy
What is gestational diabetes?
A baby is called this from 8 weeks after conception until birth
What is fetus?
The sequential tightening of the muscles of the uterus
What are contractions?
A couple takes in and cares for foster children for a while
What is host parent or foster parent?
This is one way a couple should prepare spiritually before becoming parents.
What is seeking the Lord's will for when to have children, or asking the Lord for wisdom, or submitting to His will?
A full-term baby weighing less then 6 1/2 pounds
What is a low-birth-weight baby?
A woman's eggs are located here
Where are the ovaries?
The placenta, umbilical cord, and amniotic sac that are expelled from the mother's body
What is the afterbirth?
Becoming a legal parent of a non-biological child
What is adoption?
This is one way a couple can prepare financially to become parents.
What is being a good steward of finances, or knowing the average cost of rearing a child ($173,000) to age 18, having insurance, having a plan for childcare or mom staying home?
Pregnancy-induced high blood pressure, water retention, and loss of protein
What is preeclampsia?
A ropelike structure containing blood vessels
What is the umbilical cord?
When a baby presents buttocks or feet first in the birth canal
What is a breech birth?
A type of adoption when children under care of the state cannot be reunited with their parents
What is a foster care adoption?
This is one way a couple can prepare physically to become parents.
What is having good health habits (no smoking, drugs, etc. and exercise, good nutrition), getting enough folate, knowing risks?
A low number of red blood cells
What is anemia?
The chemical messengers that initiate physiological activity
What are hormones?
When a baby must be removed through an incision in the abdomen and uterus
What is a cesarean section?
A type of adoption where records of birth parents are sealed
What is a closed adoption?
This is one way a couple can prepare emotionally to become parents.
What is being mature, resolving emotional problems within self or with family, and being willing to sacrifice for others?
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome? or What are Alcohol-Related Birth Defects?
When the embryo embeds itself in the uterine wall
What is implantation?
The scoring system used to determine a baby's overall health one minute and five minutes after birth
What is the Apgar score?
A domestic, closed adoption
What is a traditional adoption?