Chapter 6 vocab

2. monitoring: The watching of an unborn baby's heart rate for indications of stress.
5. Forming emotional ties between parents and child.
7. A condition in which new mothers may feel very sad, cry a lot, have little energy,feel overly anxious about the baby or have little interest in the baby, and, in extreme cases, think of harming the baby.
8. Causes the baby’s skin and eyes to look slightly yellow.
10. When the baby remains with the mother in her room during the hospital stay; it can be full-time or part-time arrangement.
12. The time following the baby's birth.
15. using an ultraviolet light may help with Jaundice.
16. A thick, white, pasty substance made up of the fetus’s old skin cells and secretions of skin glands.
19. The delivery of a baby through a surgical incision in the mother's abdomen.
20. The tightening and releasing of the muscles in the uterus.
22. Starting labor by artificial means.
23. The lower part of the uterus.
25. Fine, downy hair growing on the newborns’ foreheads, backs, and shoulders.
26. The first month after the baby is born.
27. a birth that takes place more than three weeks before the baby's estimated due date.
28. To widen or open.
30. blood: The blood left behind in the umbilical cord and placenta following birth.
31. A special enclosed crib where the oxygen supply, temperature, and humidity can be closely controlled.
32. cells: Cells capable of producing all types of blood cells.

1. An open space found on the baby’s head where the bones are not yet joined.
3. changes that take place in our life, changes which can occur over a short or long period of time, can be physical, emotional, personal or psychological, and can be predictable or unpredictable.
4. Drops of blood or a pinkish vaginal stain that occurs when the mucus plug dissolves.
6. A professional breast-feeding specialist who shows mothers how to encourage adequate milk production and how to position babies properly so that they can nurse.
9. A system of rating the physical condition of a newborn baby.
11. Relating to the head or the head end of the body.
13. The bone grow together and fuse or combine during the first year and a half of life.
14. A substance produced by the breakdown of red blood cells.
17. labor: regular contractions of the uterus resulting in changes in the cervix that start before 37 weeks of pregnancy.
18. the stimulation of uterine contractions during pregnancy before labor begins on its own to achieve a vaginal birth.
21. Drugs that cause a loss of feeling, used for pain relief for childbirth.
23. A high-calorie, high-protein early breast milk.
24. used in childbirth to produce loss of sensation below the waist.
29. labor: When contractions are not regular or rhythmic, do not get stronger and end with light exercise.