Chapter 4 Vocabulary

2. Birth procedures that focus on relaxation techniques instead of medication to deal with pain.
3. Pregnancy stage that extends from conception to the ninth week of pregnancy.
7. Labor that is hastened by medical intervention rather than occurring naturally.
9. Medical doctor who specializes in pregnancy and birth. Most common choice.
11. background in health, not required to hold a registered nursing license. Graduated from a midwifery program.
13. When the type of protein in red blood cells does not match between the mother and the baby.
15. Babies that weigh less than 5.8 pounds at birth.
17. Natural childbirth method that focuses on relaxation techniques, using a focal point, and an emotional coach.
18. When the baby is in an upright rather than a head-down position through birth.
20. Conditions such as cognitive disabilities caused by prenatal exposure to alcohol.
21. The cell that results from fertilization between a sperm and an egg.
22. used to describe the developing baby during the fetal period.

1. Babies that weigh less than 3.5 pounds at birth.
4. nurse who specializes in pregnancy and birth, graduates from a nurse-midwifery program.
5. The first mild contractions that begin labor, sometimes weeks before actual labor occurs.
6. pregnancy stage that extends from conception until two weeks later when implantation in the uterus occurs.
8. When the baby’s flow of oxygen is somehow interrupted during the birth process.
10. A type of diabetes that occurs only during pregnancy.
12. Term used to describe the developing baby during the embryonic period.
14. Pregnancy stage that extends from the ninth week of pregnancy until birth at the end of the third trimester.
16. When a fertilized egg begins dividing into cells.
19. A kind of emotional coach used by some mothers during childbirth.