Chapter 6 Vocabulary

2. a system of rating the physical condition of a newborn baby.
4. forming emotional ties between parents and a child.
6. the first month after the baby is born.
8. a high-calorie, high protein early breast milk.
9. cells capable of producing all types of blood cells.
11. a substance produced by the breakdown of red blood cells.
14. the time following the baby's birth.
17. a professional breast-feeding specialist who shows mothers how to encourage adequate milk production and how to position babies properly so that they can nurse.
18. a special enclosed crib where the oxygen supply, temperature, and humidity can be closely controlled.

1. a condition that turns the baby's skin and eyes to look slightly yellow.
3. to widen or open
5. when the baby remains with their mother in the hospital room during the whole stay.
7. the blood left behind in the umbilical cord and placenta following birth.
10. fine, downy hair growing on newborns foreheads, backs and shoulders.
12. a thick, white, pasty substance made up of the fetus's old skin cells and the secretions of skin glands.
13. a condition in which new mothers may feel very sad, cry a lot, have little energy, feel overly anxious about the baby or have little interest in the baby, and, in extreme cases, think of harming the baby.
15. an open space found on the baby's head where the bones are not yet joined.
16. the delivery of a baby through a surgical incision in the mother's abdomen.