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Ans✓✓✓ Even when mom is deficient in iron, it continues to be
absorbed in sufficient amounts for the fetus to have a normal HGB
level.
- Assist individuals and their families to make informed, safe decisions
about childbirth
- Assist to sort out reliable information from online sources
- Assist to comprehend the long-lasting effects an empowering birth
experience can have
- Ideally this begins in the preconception period Ans✓✓✓ Perinatal
education goals
- Early fetal growth and development
- Physiologic and emotional changes of pregnancy are more understood
- Human sexuality
- Nutritional needs of the mother and fetus
- Environmental and workplace hazards Ans✓✓✓ Components of early
pregnancy classes
- Hospital
•Labor, delivery, recovery, after birth (birthing) rooms
- Birth centers
,- Home birth
•Ensure informed choice
•CNM attendance improved safety Ans✓✓✓ Birth setting options
- Management of discomfort in labor
- Relaxation
- Breathing techniques
- Imagery and visualization
- Biofeedback
-Pharmacologic interventions
•I.V. medications
•Epidurals Ans✓✓✓ Components of late pregnancy classes
• Abdominal pain
• Delayed menses (hormones dont know that anything is wrong)
• Abnormal vaginal bleeding (depends on where it impanted) Ans✓✓✓
Ectopic pregnancy S/S
• Abnormal fetal growth
• Oligohydramnios
• Decreased SubQ fat
• Lacks vernix(cheesy covering on baby) & lanugo (fine hairs all over
body)
,• Dry, cracked, peeling skin
• Long nails Ans✓✓✓ Fetal effects of postterm pregnancy
• Abnormal FHR tracing
• Loss of fetal station
• Abdominal pain
• Shock
• Tachysystole (one contraction after another) Ans✓✓✓ Rupture of
the uterus S/S
• Acute onset of hypotension
• Hypoxia
• Cardiovascular collapse
• Coagulopathy Ans✓✓✓ Amniotic fluid embolism S/S
• Amenorrhea
• Fatigue
• Breast changes Ans✓✓✓ Presumptive sign of pregnancy examples
• Blood loss or anemia
• Hypoxemia
• Hypoxia
, • Anoxia
• Preterm birth Ans✓✓✓ Hemorrhagic disorders increase fetal risk for:
• Change position
• Increase IV fluid
• Provide oxygen via facemask. Ans✓✓✓ Fetal monitor on mom,
rhythm is concerning, you needed to do intrauterine resuscitation.
What interventions used to effect babies heart rhythm?
• Chemical agents (prostaglandins)
-Misoprostol, Cervidil
• Mechanical and physical methods
-Balloon catheters
-Lamanaria (made from seaweed)
• Alternative methods
-Blue cohosh & castor oil
-Black cohosh & evening primrose
-Acupuncture Ans✓✓✓ Cervical ripening methods
• Chronic Hypertension
• Superimposed Preeclampsia Ans✓✓✓ Chronic Hypertensive
Disorders include: