Breasts
Yellowish fluid produced by the breasts before lactation.
What is Colostrum?
What is Involution?
Bladder distention impairs the uterus from doing this.
What is Contracting?
Postbirth discharge or flow.
What is Lochia?
Characterized by mood swings, sadness, anxiety, difficulty sleeping and loss of appetite in first few days postpartum.
What is Baby Blues?
Term describing distended, firm, tender breasts.
What is Engorgement?
Medication administered IV or IM after expulsion of the placenta to ensure uterus remains firm and contracted.
What is Oxytocin?
Uterine assessment that indicates of a full bladder.
What is Deviation from Midline?
Dark red, bloody uterine discharge.
Intense sadness with severe labile mood swings. Intense fears, anger, and anxiety persist past first few weeks.
What is Postpartum Depression?
Time when colostrum transitions to mature milk.
What is 72 to 96 Hours?
Initial intervention in management of excessive postpartum bleeding due to uterine atony.
What is Fundal Massage?
Problem that can occur if the bladder becomes distended soon after birth.
What is Excessive Bleeding?
Life threatening event often not recognized until mother has profound symptoms.
What is Postpartum Hemorrhage?
Syndrome most often characterized by depression, delusions, and thought of harming self or infant.
What is Postpartum Psychosis?
Unilateral infection of breast after lactation is established.
What is Mastitis?
Turning the uterus inside out after birth.
What is Inversion?
Time before spontaneous bowel evacuation may occur.
What is 2-3 Days.
What is Uterine Atony?
Symptom of postpartum depression that includes not feeling love for the infant.
What is Detachment?
Lactogenic hormone secreted by the pituitary gland for lactating women.
What is Prolactin?
Infection of the lining of the uterus. Most common and originates at placental site.
What is Endometritis?
Tissue trauma to pelvic floor may cause this.
What is Stress Incontinence?
Pathologic, diffuse clotting that consumes large amount of clotting factors. Also known as Consumptive Coagulopathy.
What is Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation?
Screening scale to assess postpartum depression.
What is Edinburgh Postnatal Depression scale?