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- 2. Causes the baby’s skin and eyes to look slightly yellow.
- 6. Fine, downy hair growing on the newborns’ foreheads, backs, and shoulders.
- 8. The tightening and releasing of the muscles in the uterus.
- 10. The bone grow together and fuse or combine during the first year and a half of life.
- 14. When the baby remains with the mother in her room during the hospital stay; it can be full-time or part-time arrangement.
- 15. The time following the baby's birth.
- 17. 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.
- 20. The lower part of the uterus.
- 21. The delivery of a baby through a surgical incision in the mother's abdomen.
- 24. used in childbirth to produce loss of sensation below the waist.
- 25. the stimulation of uterine contractions during pregnancy before labor begins on its own to achieve a vaginal birth.
- 27. A system of rating the physical condition of a newborn baby.
- 28. using an ultraviolet light may help with Jaundice.
- 30. An open space found on the baby’s head where the bones are not yet joined.
- 31. To widen or open.
- 32. A substance produced by the breakdown of red blood cells.
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- 1. A special enclosed crib where the oxygen supply, temperature, and humidity can be closely controlled.
- 3. Drops of blood or a pinkish vaginal stain that occurs when the mucus plug dissolves.
- 4. labor: When contractions are not regular or rhythmic, do not get stronger and end with light exercise.
- 5. 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.
- 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.
- 9. The first month after the baby is born.
- 11. a birth that takes place more than three weeks before the baby's estimated due date.
- 12. Forming emotional ties between parents and child.
- 13. Starting labor by artificial means.
- 16. A high-calorie, high-protein early breast milk.
- 18. cells: Cells capable of producing all types of blood cells.
- 19. A thick, white, pasty substance made up of the fetus’s old skin cells and secretions of skin glands.
- 22. labor: regular contractions of the uterus resulting in changes in the cervix that start before 37 weeks of pregnancy.
- 23. monitoring: The watching of an unborn baby's heart rate for indications of stress.
- 26. Relating to the head or the head end of the body.
- 27. Drugs that cause a loss of feeling, used for pain relief for childbirth.
- 29. blood: The blood left behind in the umbilical cord and placenta following birth.