Unit 2 Choice Board Vocab
Across
- 4. the loss of fetus after 20 weeks of pregnancy
- 5. the tightening or shortening of a muscle
- 8. B vitamin that reduces the baby's risk for neural tube defects
- 10. when someone can't work for part or all of pregnancy due to health reasons
- 12. a delivery that occurs before 39 weeks of pregnancy
- 13. fathers that get time off work after child is born
- 15. stage #2 of prenatal development
- 18. the fertilized egg
- 19. the process that moves the baby out of the mother's body
- 21. made to widen the birth canal and prevent tearing
Down
- 1. mother's uterus is cut open and the baby is removed
- 2. a chemical compound found in threadlike structures
- 3. the couple is permanently unable to conceive or unable to carry their biological child
- 6. couples who try to conceive and are unable to do so within a year
- 7. joining of sperm and ovum
- 9. a surgical removal of the uterus
- 11. baby during pregnancy
- 14. a curved instrument that fits around the sides of a babies head
- 16. outermost membrane that surrounds the baby in the uterus and amnion begin to form
- 17. baby during second stage of prenatal development
- 20. the rate of death for the babies