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