Labor and Birth
Across
- 1. Substance produced by the breakdown of red blood cells
- 5. Fine, downy hair growing on a newborns' foreheads, backs, and shoulders
- 6. Watching of an unborn baby's heart rate for indications of stress
- 8. time following baby's birth
- 9. Widen or open
- 11. Causes the baby's skin and eyes to look slightly yellow
- 12. Forming emotional ties between parents and child
- 15. System of rating the physical condition of a newborn baby
- 16. Cells capable of producing all types of blood cells
- 19. condition in which the mother may feel very sad, cry a lot, or have little energy after birth
- 20. Thick, white, pasty substance made up of the old skin cells and the secretions of skin glands
- 21. The blood left behind in the umbilical cord and the placenta after birth
Down
- 2. Special enclosed crib where oxygen supply, temperature, and humidity can be controlled closely
- 3. First month after the baby is born
- 4. Professional breast feeding specialist
- 7. Tightening and releasing of the muscles in the uterus
- 10. Baby remains with the mother in her room during hospital stay
- 13. Delivery of a baby through a surgical incision in the mother's abdomen
- 14. Open space found on the baby's head where the bones are not yet formed
- 17. High-calorie, high-protein early breast milk
- 18. Lower part of the uterus