Anatomy
Guards against jolts, keeps the fetus at a constant temperature, and keeps the fetus from forming a connection to the endometrium lining.
What is Amniotic Fluid?
Male Reproductive Cell
Sperm
Delivery where baby is removed through an incision in mom's abdomen.
What is a C-Section?
This test uses soundwaves to create a picture?
What is an ultrasound?
When mom finds out baby's gender.
What is Trimester 2?
The connection between the fetus and the placenta that passes oxygen & nutrients from mother to child and returns waste products back to the mother.
What is the Umbilical Cord?
Female Chromosome - the letters
What is XX?
The thinning of the cervix in preparation for birth.
What is effacement?
A test that checks tissue from the placenta.
What is chorionic villus sampling?
Most physically demanding trimester for mom.
What is Trimester 3?
An organ attached to the endometrium lining that filters and transfers nutrients and oxygen to the fetus.
What is the Placenta?
When a male and female reproductive cell meet.
What is Conception?
Soft spots in baby's skull.
What are fontanels?
Pregnancy loss after 20 weeks.
What is a stillbirth?
What is Trimester 1?
Holds the amniotic fluid. A very strong transparent membrane sac that surrounds the fetus. Before delivery it is broken to allow the baby to exit.
What is the Amniotic Sac?
Humans have this number pairs of a chromosomes, for a total number of __ chromosomes.
What is 23;46?
Practice contractions.
What are Braxton Hicks?
A test that checks if mom has gestational diabetes
What is glucose testing?
The highest risk of birth defects depending on mom's actions.
What is Trimester 1?
The name for the uterus when baby is growing inside.
What is the womb?
This person's genetic coding will determine if baby is a boy or a girl.
Who is the Father?
These are the three stages of labor, in order.
What are Dilation, Expulsion, Afterbirth.
A type of life-threatening high blood pressure that occurs during pregnancy.
What is Preeclampsia?
The trimester where quickening occurs.