Pregnancy Vocab
Across
- 3. A registered nurse with additional training as a midwife or a person with formal training in childbirth without a nursing degree and provides prenatal and postpartum care.
- 4. when the amniotic sac, placenta, and umbilical cord, is expelled.
- 6. Birth that takes place more than three weeks before the baby is due (less than 37 weeks)
- 8. the regular tightening of the uterus working to push the baby down the birth canal
- 12. the time after delivery where rest is the mother’s primary physical need.
- 13. Begins when the baby’s head is in the birth canal and ends when the baby is born. Does not last long, usually 5-10 minutes.
- 14. surgery performed so the baby can be delivered through an incision made in the abdomen wall and uterus
- 15. tools used by obstetrician to guide the fetal head during delivery.
Down
- 1. when the baby is born head first, face up
- 2. 2-4 weeks before labor when the baby drops lower in the mother's pelvis
- 5. a surgical incision made on the perineum used to enlarge the vaginal opening to help deliver a baby. The incision is stitched after the third stage of labor.
- 7. fetus is laying sideways
- 9. how low the baby is in the birth canal, 0 is at the cervix.
- 10. Opening of the cervix, usually the longest stage of labor
- 11. when the baby is born feet or buttocks first