- Industry: Health care
- Number of terms: 8622
- Number of blossaries: 1
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A lack of sufficient oxygen to the baby, due to a cord compression or low blood pressure in the mother.
Industry:Parenting
A noninherited genetic disorder that happens when an egg, sperm, or embryo undergoes spontaneous changes.
Industry:Parenting
A person with training and professional experience who provides care to women during pregnancy and through labor and delivery. Midwives usually take a holistic and woman-focused approach to pregnancy and childbirth; many work with the backup support of a medical doctor.
Industry:Parenting
A pregnancy with a higher than normal risk of developing complications. Risk may be related to a woman's age, a woman carrying multiple fetuses, Rh incompatibility, preterm labor, placenta previa, gestational diabetes, among other conditions.
Industry:Parenting
A procedure that uses high frequency sound waves to create a moving image of a baby in utero. During pregnancy, ultrasound is routinely used to monitor the health and development of the fetus.
Industry:Parenting
The spontaneous and involuntary loss of a pregnancy before 20 weeks, estimated to occur in 15 to 20 percent of all pregnancies. Most miscarriages occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and many occur before a woman even knows she's pregnant.
Industry:Parenting
The regular monthly reproductive cycle of a woman, including the growth of the lining of the uterus, the release of an egg, and if no fertilized egg is implanted, the expulsion of the uterine lining (the menstrual period). The typical cycle lasts 28 to 30 days and is counted from the first day of the period to the first day of the next period.
Industry:Parenting
Nausea, vomiting, and food and smell aversions, that affects more than 70 percent of pregnant women. Morning sickness, which can occur any time of day, usually begins at four to eight weeks gestation and subsides by week 14 or 16.
Industry:Parenting
