- Industry: Health care
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The artery responsible for bringing blood from the heart to the rest of the body. Lying faceup during pregnancy can compress the aorta.
Industry:Parenting
A newborn baby's first test. Given one minute after a baby is born, then again five minutes later, the Apgar assesses the newborn's appearance (skin color), pulse, grimace (reflex), activity (muscle tone), and respiration. A perfect Apgar score is ten; typical Apgar scores are seven, eight, or nine.
Industry:Parenting
A condition in which breathing stops briefly during sleep, temporarily reducing the amount of oxygen that is taken in.
Industry:Parenting
The dark area on the breast surrounding the nipple. During pregnancy, the areola can spread and darken. While breastfeeding, the baby compresses the areola to extract breast milk.
Industry:Parenting
Scented oils that are used to heal body, mind, and spirit. Most experts advise caution when using aromatherapy during pregnancy, since some aromas in a concentrated form can be hazardous.
Industry:Parenting
A process used to help a woman trying to conceive when natural methods fail. Sperm is inserted into the woman's uterus using a catheter.
Industry:Parenting
The bursting of the sac holding the amniotic fluid using an instrument resembling a crochet hook with a pointy tip. Practitioners often rupture the membranes to speed up a labor that has slowed.
Industry:Parenting
Drawing a substance into or out of the air passages. After a baby is born, the practitioner will aspirate the baby's mouth and nose using a bulb syringe to remove accumulated fluids or mucus and to prevent the baby from inhaling meconium, if any is present.
Industry:Parenting
Any procedure performed to help a woman become pregnant. See IVF and gamete intra-fallopian transfer.
Industry:Parenting
An intervention to help labor that has begun naturally to progress more rapidly. Often, Pitocin (a synthetic form of the hormone oxytocin) is used to make contractions stronger or to rupture the membranes.
Industry:Parenting
