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What is a teratogen?
bad substance that crosses the placenta
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When are women most vulnerable during which trimester?
1st
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Ovum is fertile for how long after ovulation?
24 hours
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How long is are the trimesters?
- 1st: 1-13
- 2nd: 14-26
- 3rd: 27-40
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What is gravida?
woman pregs
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multigravida?
woman with multi pregs
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Multipara?
Woman who had two or more pregs with fetal viability
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Parity
Number of pregs. Not the actual number or babies that came out.
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Viabilty?
Ability to live outside uterus
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How many weeks is pre-term?
20-37th weeks.
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What weeks are "term"?
38-42nd week
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Breast changes
Nausea, vomiting
Urinary frequency
Fatigue
Quickening
Amenorrhea
are what kind of changes?
Presumptive.
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The signs of pregnancy (Hegar, goodell, chadwick) are presumptive or probable?
Probable
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What is Hegar's sign?
Lower uterine section soft
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Goodell sign. What is it?
Soft cervix. Some bleeding.
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What is the chadwick sign?
Blueish coloration of labia, cervix etc.
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What is the ballottement test?
Touch the "entrance" and the baby floats up.
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What are "positive" preg tests?
Fetal heart beat. Anything relating to physical fetus.
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Woman states nausea and vomiting. What kind of sign is it? Probable? Positive? Presumptive?
Presumptive. Could be anything!
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How many weeks along pass does cervix soften?
6.
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What is colostrum? How many weeks along does it appear?
16 weeks. First stages of breastmilk. Yellowish, sticky. Packed full of carbs, protein, antibodies.
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A woman is lying on her back and has trouble breathing. What do you do?
Lie them on side. Likely experiencing supine postural hypotension.
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What does the blood pressure look like during the whole pregnancy? Normal? Drops? Elevates?
Normal first trimester. Drops 5-10 second. Normal third.
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During the late stages of pregs, body increases fibrinogen to get ready for all that bleeding. What does that make them at risk for?
DVT. Fibrinogen + limited mobility = DVT.
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What changes in the blood work of a pregs?
HCT + HG lowers = anemia
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What is the formula for mean arterial pressure?
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What intengumentary changes can you expect?
everything darkens, striations.
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What GI changes can you expect in pregnancy?
constipation. morning sickness (although, it can be deceiving. could happen anytime)
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What does the body do with FSH and LH during pregnancy?
Suppress. Ovulation hormones. Why would you want to ovulate when you're pregs?
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What does "progesterone" do during pregs?
maintain pregs. relaxing smooth muscles so no contractions = no miscarriage. causes fat to be deposited for energy later.
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What does estrogen do in pregs?
vasodilation. relax pelvic joints.
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What does oxytocin do in pregs?
stimulate contractions in pregs.
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