Full-term pregnancy, when a baby is born between 39 weeks, 0 days and 40 weeks, 6 days, Glucose, a simple sugar that is an important energy source in living organisms and is a component of many carbohydrates, Glucose screening, test that measures the level of glucose in a pregnant woman’s body requiring her to fast and drink a special sugar mixture and have her blood drawn an hour later; used to determine risk of gestational diabetes, Group B strep, an infection caused by a common bacterium (group B streptococcus); found in women in vagina, usually harmless in adults but potentially dangerous in newborns if passed to baby during delivery; producing symptoms such as fever, trouble feeding, and lethargy, HCG hormone, a hormone found in women's blood and urine throughout pregnancy, and detectable in the blood shortly after implantation of the embryo in the uterus (roughly three weeks into a four-week menstrual cycle); increasing levels of HCG tell the body that it is pregnant, putting the womb to work creating a safe home for the baby to grow in, Lanugo, fine, soft hair, especially that which covers the body and limbs of a human fetus or newborn, Prenatal cell-free DNA (cfDNA), noninvasive screening, maternal blood sample to collect DNA, to check for certain chromosomal abnormalities (Down syndrome, Trisomy 18, Trisomy 13, Trisomy 21), Prenatal development, the process of growth and development within the womb from fertilization to delivery, Screening prenatal test, testing that can identify whether a baby is more or less likely to have certain birth defects, many of which are genetic disorders, Trimester, one of the three divisions of three months each during pregnancy, in which different phases of fetal development take place, Ultrasound, a procedure that uses high-energy sound waves for viewing inside the body, by making echoes that form pictures of the tissues and organs on a computer screen (sonogram), Vernix caseosa, a white, creamy, naturally occurring biofilm covering the skin of a baby during the last trimester of pregnancy, Viability, the ability of a human fetus to survive outside the uterus

3.01 Prenatal development/testing

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