Child Development Chap.6 Vocab Crossword

The narrow passage forming the lower end of the uterus.
The tightening and shortening of the uterine muscles during labor causing effacement and dilation of the cervix and contributing to the descent of the baby.
Using either ultrasound or direct electronic monitoring equipment to measure fetal heart rate and uterine contractions and the nonstress test to evaluate fetal heart rate changes in response to uterine contractions and fetal movements are discussed under fetal monitoring.
Make or become wider, larger, or more open.
Is blood that remains in the placenta and in the attached umbilical cord after childbirth.
An unspecialized cell capable of perpetuating itself through cell division and having the potential to give rise to differentiated cells with specialized functions.
An operation by which a fetus is taken from the uterus by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus.
An enclosed apparatus providing a controlled environment for the care and protection of premature or unusually small babies.
A space between the bones of the skull in an infant or fetus, where ossification is not complete and the sutures not fully formed.
Fine, soft hair, especially that which covers the body and limbs of a human fetus or newborn.
A greasy deposit covering the skin of a baby at birth.
An index used to evaluate the condition of a newborn infant based.
The interval from birth to 28 days of age. It represents the time of the greatest risk to the infant.
Yellow staining of the skin and sclerae (the whites of the eyes) by abnormally high blood levels of the bile pigment bilirubin.
An orange-yellow pigment formed in the liver by the breakdown of hemoglobin and excreted in bile.
Connection to your baby, not your baby's connection to you.
A yellowish liquid, especially rich in immune factors, secreted by the mammary gland of female mammals a few days before and after the birth of their young.
Health care professional, often with advanced certification, who provides education and management related to breastfeeding.
No mother-baby separation during the entire hospital stay.
Cell membrane machinery that is required to coordinate contraction, the electrical activity of the heart, develops.
Moderate to severe depression in a woman after she has given birth.
Succeed in persuading or influencing (someone) to do something.
Insensitivity to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs before surgical operations.
Join or blend to form a single entity.
Fixed so as not to give way, become loose, or be lost.
Important, serious, or significant.
In a good state or condition that is not easily changed or likely to change medical.