Across
- 3. delivery of a baby through a surgical incision
- 4. professional breast feeding specialist who shows mothers how to encourage adequate milk production
- 9. tightening and releasing of the muscles in uterus
- 10. widen or open
- 12. forming emotional ties between parents and child
- 13. unchanging, steady and firm
- 15. substance produced by the breakdown of red blood cells
- 16. high calorie, high protein breast milk
- 17. when the bones combine
- 19. fine downy hair growing on newborns foreheads
- 20. babies skin and eyes look slightly yellow
- 22. first month after a baby is born
- 24. really high or important adjustment for the mother and baby
- 26. cells capable of producing all types of blood cells
- 27. open space found on a babies head where bones aren't yet connected
Down
- 1. time following the baby's birth
- 2. drugs that cause a loss of feeling used for pain relief during childbirth
- 5. baby remains with mother in her room during the hospital stay
- 6. watching an unborn babies heart rate for stress
- 7. condition in which new mother feel very sad
- 8. blood left behind in the placenta and umbilical cord
- 11. start labor by artificial means
- 14. enclosed crib where oxygen supply, temperature, and humidity can be closely controlled
- 18. feeling of being safe
- 21. thick, white pasty substance made up of fetus's old skin cells
- 23. system of rating the physical condition of a newborn baby
- 25. lower part of the uterus