Prenatal Testing
This test is used to determine your "type" and screen for infectious diseases
What is a blood test?
The chemicals in your body that help your body get ready for labor, birth and breastfeeding
What are hormones?
Type of nourishment that promotes mother-baby bonding.
What is breastfeeding?
The organ filled with blood vessels that nourishes the baby.
What is the placenta?
Doctors who specialize in pregnancy and birth.
What is an obstetrician?
For this test you drink a sugary beverage.
What is a glucose tolerance test (or diabetes test)?
This can help you have energy, maintain your weight, and help prevent diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is exercise?
Breastfeeding decreases mother's risk of developing this.
What is breast cancer?
What is premature?
This is done to determine the presence of more than fetus and determine your due date.
What is an ultrasound?
This optional test screens for inherited conditions.
What is genetic testing?
Known as the soft hair covering a newborn.
What is lanugo?
True or False: Breast milk contains immunities to diseases and aids in the development of baby's immune system.
True
This is the term used to describe when the cervix opens during labor.
What is dilation?
Type of childbirth that requires surgery and a longer recovery.
What is a cesarean or C-section?
Routine test used to check for sugar and protein
What is a urine test?
Tiny white spots on a newborn's skin that are sometimes called "baby acne"
What is milia?
The thick, high calorie, first milk that a baby should receive.
This seals the cervix during pregnancy and prevents bacteria from entering.
What is the mucous plug?
What "VBAC" stands for.
What is Vaginal Birth After Cesarean?
Kind of test used to see placenta placement and baby's anatomy
What is and ultrasound?
True or False: All babies are born with the color of eyes they will have for life.
False
Producing breastmilk burns about ______ calories a day.
What is the umbilical cord?
The name used to describe false contractions.