American Birthing History
A piece of furniture that would assist a woman in the physiological upright posture during childbirth.
The lower part of the uterus which dilates in the first stage of labor.
Cervix
Pregnancy is divided into 3 parts each lasting about 3 months & called this.
A trimester.
This bear is named for a train station and arrives in England as a stowaway from South Africa.
Paddington
Fill in the blank: Baa Baa .... sheep, have you any wool?
black
During this year, the FDA grants provisional approval if the Pill as a legal contraceptive.
A special bed for a newborn, particularly premature newborns, that helps to regulate the body temperature and provide oxygen if needed.
Incubators
To determine the position of a fetus before an amniocentesis a doctor uses one of these picture scans
Ultrasound/Sonogram
If you give a child this 1985 Laura Numeroff book, they are liable to ask for another.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
These three men had their careers, but are better known as 3 men in a tub.
The butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker.
Often used in native people's childbirth practices and became an ingredient in pain medicine, this comes from the branches of 2- to 3-year-old trees.
Willow bark.
The names of the three stages of labors.
Dilation, Expulsion, and Afterbirth
A pregnant woman may be more susceptible to gingivitis because hormones soften these
Gums
An adaptation of this Grimm tale includes the line Who is gnawing at my house?
Hansel and Gretel
This retired payless employee had so many children she didn't know what to do.
The old woman who lived in a shoe.
This, passed by Congress in 1873, classified information about contraceptives as obscene and made its circulation through the mail a crime.
The Comstock Law
After birth the baby is scored twice on this scale that measures 5 vital signs
APGAR SCORE
Done after the 15th week it's the most common test for detecting chromosome abnormalities
AMNIOCENTESIS
As well as kids' books this 19th century author wrote Examples in Arithmetic & other math textbooks.
Lewis Carroll
Quite mean with a knife, this person chopped the tails off of three blind mice.
The farmer's wife.
She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Margret Sanger
True or False: A baby's head is built to pass through the vaginal opening from a front-facing position.
False. The head must internally rotate before passage can occur through the vaginal opening.
The term used to describe the baby dropping into the lower pelvis during the last few weeks of pregnancy.
Lightening
Bugs Meany is often the villain in the stories about this young detective who was introduced in 1963
Encyclopedia Brown
Little Miss Muffet, a bit of an arachnophobic, was eating these two things before being frightened away.
Curds and Whey.