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Expulsion of a fetus as a result of deliberate actions taken to stop the pregnancy?
INDUCED ABORTION
When the fetus and placenta deliver before the 28th week of pregnancy; commonly called a miscarriage?
SPONTANEOUS ABORTION
Spontaneous (miscarriage) or induced termination of pregnancy?
ABORTION
A complication of pregnancy where ethe woman retains large amounts of fluid and has hypertension. She may also experience seizures and/or coma during birth, which is very dangerous to the infant?
PREECLAMPSIA
A severe complication of pregnancy that produces seizures and coma?
ECLAMPSIA
When implantation of the fertilized egg is not in the body of the uterus, occurring instead in the oviduct (fallopian tube), cervix, or abdominopelvic cavity?
ECTOPIC PREGNANCY
Fallopian tube; tube that carries eggs from an ovary to the uterus?
OVIDUCT
A condition in which the placenta separates from the uterine wall; a cause of prebirth bleeding?
ABRUPTIO PLACENTAE
A condition in which the placenta is formed in an abnormal location (low in the uterus and close to or over the cervical opening) that will not allow for a normal delivery of the fetus; a cause of excessive prebirth bleeding.
PLACENTA PREVIA
A result of the fetus defecating. It is a sign of fetal or maternal distress?
MECONIUM STAINING
Any newborn weighing less than 5.5 pounds or born before the 37th week of pregnancy?
PREMATURE INFANT
When more than one baby is born during a single delivery?
MULTIPLE BIRTH
When an infant's limb protrudes from the vagina before the appearance of any other body part?
LIMB PRESENTATION
If, upon viewing the vaginal area, you see the umbilical cord presenting, the cord is?
PROLAPSED
When the umbilical cord presents first and is squeezed between the vaginal wall and the baby's head?
PROLAPSED UMBILICAL CORD
If you evaluate a women in labor and find the baby's buttocks or both legs presenting, rather than the head, this is know as what?
A BREECH PRESENTATION
What is the most common abnormal delivery?
BREECH PRESENTATION
What are some examples of childbirth complications?
-BREECH PRESENTATION
-PROLAPSED UMBILICAL CORD
-LIMB PRESENTATION
The surface area between the vagina and anus?
PERINEUM
What is a good way to stop vaginal bleeding?
MASSAGE THE UTERUS
During birth, blood loss for the mother is usually no more than?
500 CC
What is the proper way to clamp the umbilical cord?
PLACE 1ST CLAMP 10 INCHES FROM BABY

PLACE 2ND CLAMP 7 INCHES FROM BABY
If the heart rate of the newborn is less than 100 BPM, what do you do?
PROVIDE ARTIFICIAL VENTILATIONS AT A RATE OF 40-60 PER MINTUE
A newborn should begin breathing within?
30 SECONDS
Is the total of the five values, and ranges from 0 to 10. It is traditionally determined 1 minute after birth and then again 5 minutes after birth?
APGAR SCORE
A normal newborn should have a pulse greater than?
100 BPM
The tip of the syringe should not be inserted more than how far into the baby's nostril?
1/2 INCH
When suctioning, how far should you insert the syringe into the baby's mouth?
1-1.5 INCHES
All patients in their third trimester should be transported on what side?
LEFT SIDE
Dizziness and a drop in blood pressure caused when the mother is in a supine position and the weight of the uterus, infant, placenta, and amniotic fluid compress the interior vena cava, reducing return of blood to the heart and cardiac output?
SUPINE HYPOTENSIVE SYNDROME
What does it mean if the mother is having labor pains from contractions that are about 2 minutes apart?
BIRTH IS NEAR
The third stage of labor usually last for how long?
10-20 MINUTES
Women giving birth for the first time will remain in this stage for an average of?
16 HOURS
Amniotic fluid that is greenish or brownish-yellow rather than clear as a result of fetal defecation; an indication of possible maternal or fetal distress during labor?
MECONIUM STAINING
The first stage of labor is also called the?
DILATION PERIOD
Begins after the baby is born and lasts until the afterbirth (placenta , umbilical cord, and some tissues from the amniotic sac and the lining of the uterus) is delivered.
THIRD STAGE
Is the time from when the baby enters the birth canal until he is born?
SECOND STAGE
The placenta, membranes of the amniotic sac, part of the umbilical cord, and some tissues from the lining of the uterus that are delivered after the birth of the baby?
AFTERBIRTH
The three stages of the delivery of a baby that begin with the contractions of the uterus and end with the expulsion of the placenta?
LABOR
When the baby's buttocks or both legs appear first during birth?
BREECH PRESENTATION
When the baby appears head first during birth. This is the normal presentation?
CEPHALIC PRESENTATION
Usually the presenting part of the baby is what?
THE HEAD
When part of the baby is visible through the vaginal opening?
CROWNING
What happens during the first trimester?
THE FETUS BEGINS TO FORM
Approximately how much fluid does the amniotic sac contain?
ABOUT 1 QUART
The "bag of waters" that surrounds the developing fetus?
AMNIOTIC SAC
The fetal structure containing the blood vessels that carry blood to and from the placenta?
UMBILICAL CORD
How much must the cervix dilate during labor to allow the baby's head to pass into the vagina?
4 INCHES (10cm)
The organ of pregnancy where exchange of oxygen, nutrients, and wastes occurs between a mother and fetus?
PLACENTA
The birth canal?
VAGINA
The neck of the uterus at the entrance to the birth canal?
CERVIX
The muscular abdominal organ where the fetus develops?
UTERUS
The baby as he develops in the womb?
FETUS
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