AMNIOTIC FLUID - Clear/yellowish fluid that surrounds the unborn baby. This is the fluid that comes out when your water breaks., CONCEPTION - Joining of the egg and sperm cells, CERVIX - The entrance to the uterus, FALLOPIAN TUBES - Two hollow tubes that extend from the right and left sides. of the uterus and reach to the ovaries, FETUS - Unborn baby, EPIDURAL - Common method of anesthesia used during labor. Numbs from the waist down., OVUM - Female sex cell; also known as the egg, PLACENTA - Organ that provides nourishment and takes away waste from unborn baby. It is delivered after the baby is born., QUICKENING - Movements of the fetus that can be felt by the mother, SPERM - Male sex cell, UMBILICAL CORD - Transports blood, oxygen and nutrients to the baby from the placenta, UTERUS - Hollow muscular organ where fetus develops during pregnancy, CROWNING - When the baby's head has passed through the birth canal and is visible at the vaginal opening. , PREMATURE - Born before 40 weeks, MISCARRIAGE - Expulsion of the baby from the body before week 20 of pregnancy, STILLBIRTH - Loss of fetus after 20 weeks of pregnancy, PRETERM BIRTH - Term for babies born before 37 weeks, LABOR - Process that moves the baby out of the mothers body, LIGHTENING - When the baby drops lower in the pelvis in preparation for delivery, BREECH - When the fetus is positioned head up, butt or feet first ., DILATION - Gradual opening of the cervix during labor. Measured in centimeters: 0-10, EPISIOTOMY - An incision made to widen the birth canal., CESAREAN SECTION - Baby is born through a surgical incision made in the abdomen. , CONTRACTIONS - When the muscles of the uterus tighten and release to help push baby through birth canal, EFFACED - Thinning of the cervix, BRAXTON HICKS - False labor/practice contractions,

CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 5-7

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