Congrats, You’re Growing a Parasite
This temporary organ develops during pregnancy to provide oxygen and nutrients to the baby.
What is the placenta?
This test usually performed around 24 to 28 weeks, screens for a type of diabetes that develops during pregnancy.
What is a glucose test?
Before a vaginal delivery, the cervix typically dilates to this measurement.
What is 10 cm?
This antibody rich, first milk, produced after birth is often nicknamed liquid gold.
What is colostrum?
This reflex allows a breast-feeding mother‘s body to release milk when her baby nurses - or sometimes just cries.
What is the let down effect?
A baby’s heartbeat begins beating around this week of pregnancy.
What is week 6?
This hormone helps prepare the body for childbirth by loosening ligament and joints.
What is relaxin?
These are a regular “practice contractions” many women experience before true labor begins.
What are Braxton Hicks?
The average newborn‘s stomach is about the size of this fruit on the first day of life.
What is a cherry?
By about six months breast milk alone is no longer sufficient because babies need additional amounts of this mineral.
What is iron?
By about 12 weeks of pregnancy, every baby has a unique set of these that will remain unchanged throughout life.
What are fingerprints?
By the third trimester a mother’s blood volume may be approximately this percentage higher than before pregnancy.
What is 50%?
During labor, contractions are measured on a monitor using this unit of pressure.
What are millimeters of mercury?
Breastmilk naturally changes throughout a feeding, becoming richer in this nutrient towards the end.
What is fat?
This milestone often marks the beginning of babies putting absolutely everything into their mouths.
What is teething?
During the first half of pregnancy the neural tube develops into these two major body structures.
What are the brain and spinal cord?
As pregnancy progresses, a mothers diaphragm can be pushed upward as much as this many centimeters.
What is four?
Researchers estimate that the uterus at term is capable of generating pressure greater than this household appliance designed to squeeze things.
What is a garbage compactor?
Skin to skin contact immediately after birth helps regulate a baby’s temperature, heart rate, and this vital function.
What is breathing (respiratory)?
By age 1, the average baby will have consumed approximately this many diapers.
What is 2,50—3,000?
The average umbilical cord contains three blood vessels arranged in this specific ratio.
What are two arteries and one vein?
The babies lungs are not fully mature until specialized cells begin producing this substance, which prevents the air sacs from collapsing after birth.
What is surfactant?
A newborn’s skull contains several soft spots that allow the bones to move during birth. These soft spots are called:
What are fontanelles?
In the six weeks following delivery, the uterus shrinks from about 2 1/2 pounds to approximately this many ounces.
What is 2 oz?
By age 1, babies have approximately this many more bones than adults.
What is 90 (300 vs 206)?