NUR 360: Maternity Flashcards
(168 cards)
Word that means pregnancy
Gravidity
A woman who has had 2 or more pregnancies
Multigravida
A woman who has completed 2 or more pregnancies to 20 weeks or more
Multipara
A woman who has never been pregnant and is not currently pregnant
Nulligravida
A woman who has not completed a pregnancy beyond 20 weeks
Nullipara
Number of pregnancies that have reached 20 weeks
Parity
A woman who is pregnant for the first time
Primigravida
A woman who has completed one pregnancy that has reached 20 weeks
Primipara
Capacity to live outside the uterus, between 22 and 25 weeks
Viability
A pregnancy from the beginning of week 37 to end of week 40 plus 6 days of gestation
Term
A pregnancy that has reached 20 weeks of gestation but prior to completing week 36
Preterm
A pregnancy between 37 snd 38 weeks 6 days
Early Term
A pregnancy between 39 and 40 weeks 6 days
Full Term
A pregnancy in the 41st week
Late Term
A pregnancy after 42 weeks
Post Term
1st Trimester
1 to 13 weeks
2nd Trimester
14 to 26 weeks
3rd Trimester
27 to 40 weeks (or until birth)
Puerperium
Birth to the return of the reproductive system to the pre-pregnant state
(Approx 6 weeks postpartum)
Enhancing self-efficacy
A person’s belief in their ability to complete a task, and whether or not they can behaviourally do something
Factors affecting postpartum psychosocial adaptation
- Pregnancy/birth experience
- Physical recovery
- Role attainment
- Binding and attachment
- Infant characteristics
- Fatigue
- Ability to meet needs
- Emotional responses
- Socioeconomics
- Social supports
- Family dynamics
- Cultural considerations
Facilitating infant behaviours
- Easily consolable
- Enjoys cuddling
- Crying only when hungry/wet
- Smiles
- Lifts arms to parent greeting
- Clings to parent
- Eye contact
- Visually alert
- Tracking parents face
Inhibiting infant behaviour for attachment
- Ignores parents
- Indifference to parents from others
- Unpredictable sleep and feeding schedule
- Cries for hours
- Inconsolable
Facilitating parental behaviours
- Naming baby
- Holding baby
- Wanting to sooth baby
- Showing off baby
- Showing similarities of baby to parents