LMP
Last menstrual period
Can you get pregnant on your period
Yes
DD
40 weeks and 0 days from conception
Due period
38 weeks to 42 weeks
Median pregnancy length
40 weeks NOT 9 months
Easiest position to give birth in
NOT lithotomy
What she’s comfortable in
Using gravity is easier
Why lithotomy
Combination of practicality and need to lie down
In BC is chicken pox tested in the first trimester T or F
True, Chicken pox in fetuses and newborns has a potentially more severe consequences (Congenital)
Brain damage
Teeter check
Vaccination status check availble to maternal women
Screening for diseases transmissible to fetus
At 4 weeks preganant you’re actually
2 weeks pregnant
Begins at LMP
- Start counting
Typically women ovulate 14 days after or before menstrual cycle
Most women don’t get pregnant until after 2 weeks
Most babies are born facing
the anus
Opposite (ceiling facing) called sunny side up
- Malpositioned
- More challenges
Easiest way to deliver a baby facing
Anus
How may professionals in OR during C section
At least 7
Scrub nurse (sterile nurse)
Charting nurse (Secondary nurse); non-sterile
Surgeon - OBGYN
Second surgeon; Not usually an OBGYN
Anesthetiologist - Up at the head (Surgery revolves around)
L&D nurse (mom’s nurse until she gets her epidural in)
Pediatrician
Who’s there in twins
2 L&D nurses
2 Pediatricians
Who’s in OR if premie
Pediatrician replaced with neonatologist
Most indigenous women in rural communities in Canada are still required to travel near a regional hospital a few weeks early to deliver T or F
True
Lack of birthing sovereignty
How common are pregnancy loss
30% “spontaneous abortion”
SA
TA
Therapeutic abortion
Which parent determines the sex of fetus
Male
Last organ to develop
Lungs
Reasons for lung problems in premies
Surfactant isn’t produced until 3rd trimester, allows glide bw lungs and thorasic cabity
Men produce how much sperm
60+ million sperm (1 teaspoon)
Can fetuses see light
Yes and hear
Canada and medical guidelines and laws preventing unlimited embryo transfers and sex selection for IVF T or F
True
typically 1,2 and sometimes 3
