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