Pregnancy
A form of diabetes that occurs only during pregnancy.
What is Gestational Diabetes?
What TACO might refer to in relation to your water breaking?
Time, Amount, Color, Odor
The baby's head has these, which helps it through the birth canal.
What are fontanels and suture lines? (soft spots)
An item required in order to bring the baby home from the birth location.
What is a car seat?
Something your baby does NOT need in order to be discharged.
What is a name?
A medical problem in pregnancy characterized by high blood pressure and the presence of protien in the urine.
What is Preeclampsia?
Two ways a doctor or midwife might induce labor.
What are cervical ripeners, balloon (foley catheter), pitocin, Artifical Rupture of Membranes?
The best source of nutrition for an infant.
What is breast milk?
The best place for baby immediately following birth and throughout the first year.
What is skin - to - skin?
What using your BRAIN might refer to?
Asking the questions: What are the Benefits, Risks, Alternatives, Intuition, No/Not Now/Need more information?
A health concern that an expectant mother would immediately contact their doctor/midwife about.
(must name at least 3)
What are: Vaginal Bleeding,
Sudden swelling of feet, hands or face,
Vision changes,
Decreased fetal movement
The names of the four stages of labor.
What are Labor (early, active and transition), Pushing/Birth,Placental Delivery, Recovery/Golden Hour
Occurs when the liver cannot remove bilirubin from the blood.
What is Jaundice?
Amount of additional calories to be consumed during pregnancy, and the additional amount of calories needed for breastfeeding.
What is 300 calories for pregnancy and 500 for lactation?
THREE things a premature baby must be able to do before leaving the hospital.
What is drink (eat) on their own, Maintain their body temperature, and breathe on their own?
The 6 ways progress is measured in labor.
What is Ripening, Effacement, Dilation, Baby rotating, Cervix moving forward, Baby dropping?
Demonstrate TWO types of breathing that you might use during labor.
What is Whale Breathing, slow deep breathing, hee-hee-hee-hoooo?
Six ways to soothe/calm a crying baby.
What is swaddle, side laying, shushing, swaying, swinging and sucking?
This safe sleep practice helps reduce the risk of SIDS.
ABC's of safe sleep
What is Back to Sleep
Alone, on their Back, in a Crib?
Four forms of anesthesia that might be used for labor and birth.
What are local anesthetics (Fentynl, Nitrous), Epidural, Spinal, and General?
The first sense a baby develops in utero. And the last organ to be developed.
What is hearing and what are the lungs?
Replace Fear Tension and Pain with these three R's for labor.
What is Rhythm, Ritual and Relaxation?
FIVE ways to know your baby is getting enough breastmilk.
What is Soaking (wet diapers), Stools (poopy), Scales (~1oz/day), Satisified (2-3 hrs btwn feeds), Softening (of the breast tissue)
This reflex allows babies to grasp your finger.
What is the Palmer Reflex?
P.O.S.T B.I.R.T.H warning signs and which ones need a 9-1-1 call.
9-1-1 POST Pain in Chest, Obstructed Breathing, Seizures, Thought of Harm
Bleeding more that 1 pad/hour, golf ball clots, Incision not healing, Red or swollen leg, Temp of 100.4 or higher, Headache that does not go away?