Labor
Passengers, passageway, powers, position, and psychologic response
What are the 5 P's?
Shortening and thinning of the cervix during the first stage of labor.
What is effacement?
Contractions
What are primary powers?
What is the second stage of labor?
Part of the fetus that enters the pelvic inlet first and leads through the birth canal during labor at term.
What is presentation?
Enlargement or widening of the cervical opening.
What is dilation?
Lightening, return of urinary frequency, backache, stronger Braxton Hicks contractions, weight loss of 1-3/5 pounds, surge of energy, increased vaginal discharge, bloody show, cervical ripening, possible rupture of membranes.
What are signs preceding labor?
What is the third stage of labor?
Relation of the long axis (spine) of the fetus to the long axis (spine) of the mother.
What is fetal lie?
Progress of the presenting part through the pelvis.
What is descent?
Involuntary uterine contractions
What are primary powers?
Time period between the delivery of the placentae until the mother is stabilized.
What is the fourth stage of labor?
What s fetal position?
Process of moving the fetus, placenta, and membranes out of the uterus and through the birth canal.
What is labor?
What are secondary powers?
The turns and other adjustments necessary in the human birth process.
What is mechanism of labor?
Relation of the body parts to one another.
What is attitude?
Part of the fetus lying closest to the internal os of the cervix.
What is presenting part?
Onset of uterine contractions to full dilation of the cervix
What is the first stage of labor?
Seven cardinal movements of the mechanism of labor.
What is engagement, descent, flexion, internal rotation, extension, external rotation, and birth expulsion?