Antepartum Care Flashcards
What produces hormones and what hormones does it produce?
Corpus luteum: progesterone and estrogen
What does progesterone and estrogen feed and for how long?
Placenta, 11 wks
Which hormone allows pregnancy to be maintained?
Progesterone
What hormone increases secretions, relaxes connective tissue, loosens up connective tissues for an easy labor and controls the development of female sex characteristics and the thickening of the vaginal mucosa making it thick, white, and acidic?
Estrogen
What’s the pH of the vagina that helps it prevent bacterial infections?
3.5-5
What are the 2 parts of the placenta?
Maternal and fetal portion
What portion of the placenta consist of decidua basalis and has a red flesh like surface?
Maternal portion
What portion of the placenta has chorionic villi covered by the amnion and gives a shiny gray appearance?
Fetal portion
During pregnancy what enlarges, has an increase in blood supply and has Braxton hicks contractions?
Uterus
What contractions are in a upward motion in delivery, are painless, and irregular and usually caused by dehydration?
Braxton Hicks contractions
What is the term used to describe the thinning of the cervix and needs to be 100% in order to deliver?
Effacement
What is a egg, white discharge that protects the entrance to the uterus and is lost 3-4wks prior to delivery?
Mucus plug
What is egg, white ovulation in the cervix that lasts for about 3-4 days?
Mucorrhea
What increases in the cervix bc of mothers increase in blood supply?
Vascularity
BP decreases during pregnancy, but when is it the lowest and when does it go back to preterm levels?
2nd trimester, 3rd trimester
By how much percent does RBC increase by during pregnancy?
30%
By how much percent does plasma increase during pregnancy?
50%
Bc plasma is increased more than RBC what can it cause?
Pseudoanemic
Pressure to the vena cava when laying supine can cause what?
Supine hypotension
By how much does leukocytes increase to during pregnancy?
15,000/mm3
What clotting factors are increased during pregnancy?
7,8, 9 and 10
What is the term used to describe fluttery movements when the baby moves?
Quickening
What is the maternal heartbeat known as?
Uterine soufflés
What is the fetuses heartbeat known as?
Funic soufflés
Symptoms the woman experiences and reports that can be caused by other conditions is what?
Subjective (presumptive)