Prenatal Development
A woman can conceive only during a short window of time and this event occurs about every 28 days.
What is ovulation?
This is the most sensitive time to the effects of teratogens.
What is the embryonic period?
The placenta separates from the uterine wall during this stage of labor.
What is the third stage?
______ is the screening given at birth to assess for five different aspects, one and five minutes after birth
What is the Apgar?
True or False: There is an increased level of access to services with a higher socioeconomic status.
What is true?
Survival outside the womb, known as the age of viability, begins at ______ weeks after conception.
What is 22 weeks?
An over-the-counter medication can act as a ______.
What is a teratogen?
Serena's partner is assisting her with breathing techniques through the regular contractions. She is fully dilated at 10 cm and has the urge to push. The doctor says that the baby’s head is crowning. This illustrates this stage of labor.
What is the second stage?
True or False: Newborns’ hearing is well developed even before birth allowing them to be active listeners of the environment, learning all that they hear.
What is true?
A common reason for women to delay or avoid seeking prenatal care.
What is lack of health insurance?
Sophie has just found out that she is pregnant. She is looking forward to feeling her baby kick. The earliest week of gestation that Sophie may feel coordinated limb movements is ______.
What is 17 weeks?
Ian is born with a short nose, small eye openings, and small head circumference. He may show memory, language, and visuouspatial deficits as he develops. His intellectual development may also show impairment and/or deficits. The pediatrician, after interviewing his mother for her prenatal habits, considers the diagnosis of ______ for Ian.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
This action distinguishes the third stage of labor from the others.
What is the placenta is expelled from the body?
This is the leading cause of infant mortality today.
What is prematurity and low birthweight?
Prenatal care is often linked to the amount of this?
What is maternal education?
The age at which advanced medical care permits a preterm newborn to survive outside the womb.
What is the age of viability?
This body part remains vulnerable to teratogens throughout pregnancy.
What is the brain?
This is the most common form of pain management through medication
What is an epidural?
An intervention for many low-birthweight and preterm infants that promotes their development is ______.
What is kangaroo care?
Despite low rates of prenatal care, this phenomenon is reported to have favorable birth outcomes for Latino mothers.
What is the Latina paradox?
Sonia is pregnant and has no transportation or social support in her life to help her. This could lead to ______.
What is poor prenatal care?
Name three types of teratogens.
What are cannabis, cigarettes, alcohol, prescription/nonprescription drugs, cocaine, opioids, environmental hazards (chemicals, radiation, pollution, extreme heat/humidity), maternal illness (chicken pox, syphilis, HIV, etc).
Refers to a birth where the fetus is removed from the uterus through the abdomen.
What is a Cesarean section?
Bianca gives birth at 39 weeks, but her baby weighs only 4.8 pounds. This illustrates a ______.
What is a small-for-date infant?
Describe two of the several factors thought to account for the Latina paradox.
What are strong cultural support, healthy dietary practices, norm of selfless devotion to the maternal role, strong social networks, multi-generational support system, women helping women, warm interpersonal relationships.