Breast is best
The non-breastfeeding woman must avoid this action.
What is expressing milk or stimulating the breast?
What position should the patient be lying in during the postpartum fundal assessment, and where should the examiner place their hands when completing the assessment?
What is the patient should be supine and the examiner should have one hand on the fundus and one hand to support the symphysis pubis.
What is an abnormal manifestation of possible endometritis in the postpartum patient?
What is tachycardia?
Unlike breast-fed infants, who should feed every 2-3 hours. How often should bottle-fed babies be fed?
What is every 3-4 hours?
These blood type differences are the reasons that moms have to get a Rhogam shot after delivery.
What is Mom is Rh- and Baby is Rh+.
When properly latched on, these areas of the infant's face should be touching the mother's breast with the nose specifically where?
What is the tip of the nose, the cheeks, and the chin. The nose should be aligned with the nipple
This is the term used if the uterus fails to return to its pre-pregnant state and can be caused by multi-parity, prolonged labor, infection.
What is subinvolution?
These assessment findings are abnormal when assessing lochia.
What is foul odor, saturating a pad in an hour or less, clots larger than a quarter, clots that do not break apart when manipulated.
When bottle feeding the infant, how should the baby be positioned?
What is upright or cradled in your arms?
This is the first medication used to prevent postpartum hemorrhage.
What is Oxytocin?
This is the best intervention to prevent engorgement and mastitis.
What is frequent breastfeeding or hand expression?
A fundal assessment that is deviated to the right of the umbilicus indicates the need for this intervention.
What is to empty the bladder?
After the first 24 hours, this comfort measure may be used in place of ice packs to reduce local swelling and promote comfort for an episiotomy, perineal trauma, or inflamed hemorrhoids.
What is a sitz bath?
This should be done to bottle nipples and bottles before they are used first.
What is sterilized (boiling 5-10 minutes)?
Clients are not candidates for oral contraceptives if they have a history of this.
What is Cerebral Vascular Disease or using tobacco products, high blood pressure?
This is the proper way to break the latch of a baby from the breast.
What is the mother should insert her clean finger in the corner of baby's mouth to break the seal?
Name of discomfort caused by postpartum intermittent uterine contractions.
What are afterpains and cramping?
This term describes the separation between two muscles that can occur as a result of pregnancy
What is diastasis recti abdominis?
If the baby didn't drink the entire bottle of breast milk at one time, the unfinished breast milk should be discarded after this amount of time.
What is one-two hours?
These are signs of possible endometritis in the postpartum patient.
What is extreme tenderness on palpation of the uterus, prolonged fever, and smelling lochia?
These are 3 signs that the baby is ready to feed.
What is the baby begins to stir, baby makes hand to mouth movements, exhibits sucking or licking gestures, exhibits rooting reflex, increased activity.
Fundal check frequency postpartum.
What is q15 min in the first hour, q30 min in the second hour, q4 hours in the first 24 hours, q8 hours after the first 24 hours?
Supporting the lower uterine segment may prevent this during fundal assessment or massage.
What is to prevent uterine inversion?
Infants under three months of age should be given ready-to-feed formulas for the first three months because of the risk of contracting this type of infection.
What is Cronobacter infection?
In addition to emulation and looking for the presence of a DVT, the patient should avoid this position to decrease the chances that the patient would develop pulmonary embolism.
What is lying in the knee-chest position for the first 3 weeks after delivery?