Pregnancy Vocab

3. A registered nurse with additional training as a midwife or a person with formal training in childbirth without a nursing degree and provides prenatal and postpartum care.
4. when the amniotic sac, placenta, and umbilical cord, is expelled.
6. Birth that takes place more than three weeks before the baby is due (less than 37 weeks)
8. the regular tightening of the uterus working to push the baby down the birth canal
12. the time after delivery where rest is the mother’s primary physical need.
13. Begins when the baby’s head is in the birth canal and ends when the baby is born. Does not last long, usually 5-10 minutes.
14. surgery performed so the baby can be delivered through an incision made in the abdomen wall and uterus
15. tools used by obstetrician to guide the fetal head during delivery.

1. when the baby is born head first, face up
2. 2-4 weeks before labor when the baby drops lower in the mother's pelvis
5. a surgical incision made on the perineum used to enlarge the vaginal opening to help deliver a baby. The incision is stitched after the third stage of labor.
7. fetus is laying sideways
9. how low the baby is in the birth canal, 0 is at the cervix.
10. Opening of the cervix, usually the longest stage of labor
11. when the baby is born feet or buttocks first