Maternal Newborn Nursing study guide

Test Bank for Maternal-Newborn Nursing.

Expected physiological changes during pregnancy • Signs of pregnancy o Presumptive, probable, positive • Presumptive: those changes felt by the woman o e.g., breast changes (darkened areolae, enlarged Montgomery’s glands), uterine enlarged, quickening (slight fluttering movements of the fetus feld by a woman, usually between 16 to 20 seeks of gestation) o Skipping period is not reliable sign of pregnancy by itself but if it accompanied by nausea, fatigue, breast tenderness, and ur...