Preconception Nutrition
Across
- 2. disease autoimmune disease that causes malabsorption due to an inherited sensitivity to the gliadin portion of gluten in wheat, rye, barley
- 5. hormone secreted during puberty
- 7. biological ability to bear children.
- 11. cessation of menses
- 12. no conception after one year in healthy couples having regular, unprotected sexual intercourse
Down
- 1. the first menses
- 3. inherited disorder in phenylalanine metabolism most commonly caused by a deficiency of phenylalanine hydroxylase
- 4. loss of a conceptus in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. Also called spontaneous abortion
- 6. reduced level of fertility characterized by long time to conception (over 12 months) or repeated early pregnancy losses
- 8. women start out with 7 million of these during their lifetime
- 9. rate number of births per 1000 women aged 15-44
- 10. biological inability to bear children after 1 year of unprotected intercourse