labor and delivery In-class activity

labor and delivery 2023 A+ In-class activity name five factors affecting labor process and birth - 5 P's - passager, passageway, powers, position, psychologic response who is the passenger - fetus what is the passageway - birth canal what is powers - contractions, bearing down what is the position - the position of the laboring owman how adequate to determine vaginal birth - maternal pelvis- passageway Most common maternal pelvis - gynecoid is gynecoid pelvis adequate for vaginal delivery - yes gynecoid is also called - female pelvis android is also called - the male pelvis is the android pelvis adequate for vaginal delivery - no is anthropoid pelvis adequate for vaginal delivery - no this pelvis is narrow in width, but wide front to back - anthropoid pelvis is platypeloid pelvis adequate for delivery - yes this pelvis is narrowed front to back and wide side to side - platypelloid the cranial bones overlap during labor and mold to pass through the pelvis - fetal head the membranous space between the cranial bones help the examiner to identify the position of the fetal head- what is this called - fontanelles refers to the relation of the fetal parts to one another - fetal attitude what is normal fetal attitude - flexion of the head, flexion of the arms on the chest, flexion of the knees onto the abdomen (fetal poasition) fetal lie - refers to the relation of the fetus to the mother what position can a fetal lie be in - transvers lie and longitudinal lie longitudinal lie - when the fetal spine is parallel to the mothers spine transverse lie - is when the fetal spine is perpendicular to the mother's spine fetal presentation - the part of the fetus that enters the maternal pelvis first, what position can fetal presentation be - cephalic,breech, or shoulder