Signs and Symptoms of Labor
Reasons risk factors of why a baby might need to go to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Babies that are born prematurely, have low birth weight, breathing difficulties, infections, multiples, babies with addictions, complications during birth or requiring close medical monitoring after birth.
The process of the opening of the cervix from 0-10 centimeters, which must happen before the second stage of labor can begin.
What is dilation?
True or False: A baby's head is built to pass through the vaginal opening from a front-facing position.
What is False? The head must internally rotate before passage can occur through the vaginal opening.
This type of birth professional provides emotional support during labor.
What is a doula?
This term refers to depression that many new mothers experience.
What is Post-Partum Depression?
This term describes the rupture of the amniotic sac, otherwise known as rupturing the membranes, often signaling that labor is beginning and causing fluid to be released.
What is the breaking of the water or when someone says, "my water broke?"
The term for thinning and shortening of the cervix to allow for easier passage of the fetal head during the first stage.
What is effacement of the cervix?
The cervix dilates to 4-7cm, typically lasts 5-18 hours, and contractions are 3-4 minutes apart during this stage of labor.
What is the first stage of labor?
This type of birth professional is able to perform surgery, prescribe medication, and attend medical school.
What is an obstetrician?
This term refers to the medical examination of a newborn at 1 minute and 5 minutes after birth.
What is the APGAR test?
These are potential risks associated with a prolonged second stage of labor.
What is an infection, hemorrhage (bleeding) or fetal distress?
The organ that detaches from the uterus and is delivered following the birth of the baby.
What is the placenta?
Name an indication (reason) for having a cesarean section over a vaginal birth.
What is cord prolapse, difficult labor or past cesarean delivery, early separation of placenta, improper placement of the placenta, eclampsia.
This type of birth professional is a trained medical professional who specializes in natural childbirth.
What is a midwife?
Share 3 things that happens to the baby immediately after birth
What is baby taking first breaths, being dried and warmed, receiving the APGAR assessment/vital signs checked, and begin skin-to-skin contact?
This is what it is called when the fetal head drops into the lower pelvis and is preparing for the first stage of labor.
What is "engaged?"
The names of the three phases during the 1st stage of labor. (hint LAT)
What is latent, active and transitional phases.
This is the primary benefit of a medicated birth.
What is having more control over pain?
The form of anesthesia that is administered to mothers in labor both for vaginal and cesarean births that helps to numb the pain of labor without affecting the mother's ability to push.
What is an epidural?
This term refers to the process of the uterus returning to its pre-pregnancy size.
What is involution?
The name of the condition in which the baby’s shoulder gets stuck during delivery?
Shoulder Dystocia
These false labor contractions prepare the body for labor but do not cause cervical dilation because they are inconsistent and not productive.
What are Braxton-Hicks?
This is the primary benefit of a natural birth.
What is a faster recovery time?
This procedure performed by an Obstetrician refers to the process of surgically opening/cutting the perineum during delivery.
What is an episiotomy?
This is a potential benefit of delayed cord clamping.
What is increased blood volume and iron stores which lowers risk of anemia (an iron deficiency) in the baby?