Prenatal Development Stages 🥚
The First Stage of prenatal development
What is the Zygote Stage?
Interferes with neuron migration, cases overshoot, and is the leading cause of mental retardation/intellectual disability
What is alcohol? What is FASD?
The medical term for the surgical delivery of a baby
What is Cesarean Section
A routine test that uses sound waves to create images of the fetus
What is ultrasound?
Measures a newborn's physical condition immediately after birth
What is APGAR score?
The stage where organogenesis primarily occurs
What is the Embryo Stage?
This environmental teratogen can cause neuronal undershooting
The term for when at least 50% of infants born at this time will survive
What is Age of viability?
A vitamin that is crucial during early pregnancy to prevent neural tube defects?
What is folic acid?
The term for the emotional and physical care provided to the mother after childbirth?
What is postpartum care?
The 3 major processes that neurons undergo during the fetus stage
What is proliferation, migration, and differentiation?
This drug, originally developed to treat nausea in pregnant women, caused severe birth defects, including “flipper limbs.”
What is thalidomide?
The ideal delivery time (___ weeks)
what is 39 weeks?
A prenatal diagnostic test that involves taking sample of placental tissue
What is Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS)
A common practice for preterm infants involving skin-to-skin contact with the mother?
What is Kangaroo Care?
The structure that connects the developing fetus to the placenta and provides nutrients
What is the Umbilical Cord?
The lack of this can lead to neural tube defects, miscarriage, blood clots, and other bad things.
An obstetrician who specializes in high-risk pregnancies
What is a Perinatologist?
A numbing medicine given by injection in a specific place in the back. This lessens the pain of contractions during childbirth.
What is Epidural Block?
A condition characterized by the mother feeling sad, anxious, or overwhelmed that typically is diagnosed when it lasts longer than 2 weeks during or after pregnancy.
What is postpartum depression?
The respective time periods for the Z.E.F stages
What is
Z: conception - 2 weeks
E: 3 weeks - 8 weeks
F: 9 weeks - birth
A synthetic form of the female hormone estrogen prescribed to pregnant women. Caused cervical cancer in offspring.
What is Diethylstilbesterol (DES)?
The complication that occurs when the baby is positioned feet-first or buttocks-first for delivery
What is Breech Birth?
A liquid made in the lungs at about 26 weeks of pregnancy, prevents the lungs from collapsing and aids breathing
What is Surfactant
Avoiding breastfeeding in favor of formula feeding to prevent the transmission of this
What is HIV?