Pregnancy
When a pregnant woman wakes up feeling nauseous and uncomfortable.
What is Morning Sickness?
This is a common and popular form of pain relief during childbirth.
What is an epidural?
These are hormonal changes that can cause anxiety, crying and restlessness in the mother that goes away within the first two weeks after giving birth.
What is Postpartum Depression/Baby Blues?
Babies are safest when they sleep on this.
What is their back?
A support person should help keep the mother hydrated by reminding her to do this.
What is Drink Water?
Pregnant women should avoid eating an excess amount of fish because it can continue to much of this.
What is Mercury?
Babies are typically born with their head facing this direction.
What is Downwards?
Women typically take this amount of time to heal from child delivery.
What is 6 weeks for vaginal births and 8 weeks for C-Section?
Babies have a lack of pigment in the iris of their eye at birth, so most babies are born with this color eye.
What is Blue?
The written summary of the parents' preferences for when they are in labour and giving birth.
What is a Birth Plan?
Contractions during the 2nd and 3rd trimester of pregnancy that are considered false labor pains.
What are Braxton Hicks?
The mother must also deliver this after their baby is birthed.
What is the Placenta?
After childbirth, doing this with your newborn is a good way to bond with them.
What is Skin to Skin Contact?
Babies can see this distance at birth.
What is 8 to 10 inches?
Delivery doctors will sometimes allow the father to do this to the baby after birth.
What is Cutting the Umbilical Cord?
Diastasis Recti is the condition involving the separation of this part of a pregnant woman's body.
What is her abdomen?
This is what the "C" in C-Section stands for.
What is cesarean?
This bottle is used to clean their area when a woman in Postpartum uses the bathroom.
What is a Perri Bottle?
Newborns first few bowel movements are an interesting consistency, typically described as being this color and texture.
What is Black and Tar-Like?
The performance of shallow inhalations and exhalations during labor, which help reduce pain and anxiety and even decrease the duration of labor.
What are Breathing Techniques?
A potentially dangerous pregnancy complication characterized by high blood pressure, which may cause swollen ankles.
What is Preclampsia?
This is a surgical cut made to a woman's genitalia in an effort to create a larger opening for the baby to fit through during childbirth.
What is an Episiotomy?
This is when a woman has inflammation of the mammary gland in the breast, typically due to bacterial infection via a damaged nipple.
What is Mastitis?
Babies can do these two essential bodily functions simultaneously, while it is nearly impossible for adults to do so.
What are Swallowing and Breathing?
Women need this during delivery to help feel confident that they can accomplish the feat of delivering the baby; it is the support person's job to make sure they do this.
What is Praise, Encouragement, and/or Reassurance?