02 Nutri -LECTURE Flashcards
is the provision of biomedical, behavioral and social health interventions to women and couples before conception occurs.
preconception care
Biological inability to bear children after 1 year of unprotected intercurse.
Infecundity
Biological ability to bear children.
Fecundity
Reduced level of fertility characterized by unusually long time to conception (over 12 months) or repeated early pregnancy losses.
Subfertility
Occur in the first half of pregnancy; build the capacity of the mother’s body to deliver relatively large amount of blood, oxygen, and nutrients to the fetus in the second half of pregnancy
Maternal Anabolic Changes
Occur in the second half of pregnancy; energy and nutrient stored, and the heightened capacity to deliver stored energy and nutrients to the fetus, predominate.
Maternal Catabolic” Changes
Changes directly related to maternal energy and nutrient needs
- Body water changes
- Hormonal Changes
- Maternal Nutrient Metabolism
is a round, disk like shape organ which develops from embryonic tissue and is larger than the fetus for most of pregnancy
placenta
is the increase in an organism’s size through cell multiplication (hyperplasia) and enlargement of cell size (hypertrophy).
Growth
the risk of the child for being obese during adulthood increases by
8%
is the progression of the physical and mental capabilities of an organism through growth and differentiation of organs and tissues, and integration of functions.
Development
Pregnant women should exercise three to five times a week for
20–30 minutes
Rapid weight gain, edema, high blood pressure, excretion of albumin in the urine, and convulsions
Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension (PIH).
hypertension with proteinuria and/or edema developing after the 20th week of gestation
Pre-eclampsia
convulsion or coma; usually both when associated with hypertension, proteinuria, edema, occurs after the 29th week of gestation.
Eclampsia
The classic macrocytic anemia of pregnancy represents a combined deficiency of iron and folic acid
Anemia
causes high blood sugar that can affect your pregnancy and your baby’s health. unlike type 1 diabetes, gestational diabetes is not caused by a lack of insulin, but by other hormones produced during pregnancy that can make insulin less effective a common condition referred to as insulin resistance.
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
