Unit 2 Vocab

2. refusal to engage in a sexual relationship
4. incision made to widen the birth canal and prevent tearing
6. fits around the babys head to help travel through birth canal
7. loss of a fetus after 20 weeks of pregnancy
8. movements of the fetus that can be felt by the mother
11. rate of death
13. serious form of depression that may occur after birth
14. methods infertile couples can use to conceive
16. feelings of sadness, guilt, or
17. determine whether the baby has problems envio., motor process, physical state, stress
18. that men or woman experience after birth of child
19. uses suction to help the doctor move the baby down the canal as mom pushes
20. second stage of prenatal developmen, lasting 6 weeks
22. virus that can cross the placenta and affect the baby during the first three months of pregnacy

1. mild postpartum mood disorder that goes away on its own
3. prenatal procedure for finding abnormalalities in the fetus by testing a small sample of the chorion
5. rare; mental illness that may result after giving birth
9. describes the baby from birth to 1 month
10. pregnancy in which 2 or more babies develope
12. measures the newborns chance of survival
15. b-vitamin that reduces the babys risk for neural tube defects
21. protein substance found in the red blood cells of about 85 percent of the population