Chapter 11, 24, 25, etc.- Perinatal Education Flashcards
What are the goals of perinatal education?
Help parents become knowledgable consumers, take an active role in maintaining health during pregnancy and birth, and learn coping techniques for pregnancy, child birth, and parenting.
What is psychoprophylaxis?
Like lamaze - it uses the mind to prevent pain.
What is habituation?
A decreased response to stimuli.
What is effleurage?
The slow massage of the abdomen or another body part during contraction.
How else can we help with pain?
Focal point, imagery, thermal stimulation, positioning, music, etc.
pregnancy occurs because many adolescents fail to recognize their vulnerability to the consequences of their sexual activity and believe that pregnancy cannot happen to them. T/F?
True
If a pregnant woman ingests something like alcohol, the baby doesn’t get any of it. T/F?
FALSE - it has the same affects on the baby….like, anything she takes in!
Prego women who smoke - what happens?
Possible low birth weight, increased risk of abortion, learning disability, sids, etc.
What is distinctive about fetal alcohol syndrome?
The way they look, act, behave, etc.
What’s one of the problems with alcohol? Like..how much?
We don’t know, that’s the problem!
What does cocaine do to the baby?
It’s a stimulant, so it raises everything up and causes hyperarousal, —- HTN, increased alertness, tachycardia, tremors, anemia, etc.
Neonates exposed to cocaine in utero may exhibit CNS signs such as…
irritability followed by lethargy, alternating, between sleep and agitation, poor response to interaction with others, etc.
What do amphetamines do to the system? What do they do to baby?
They act like cocaine but last longer. They’re stimulants. They can cause cleft palate, congenital defects, agitation, diaphoresis, etc.
Paxil - recomended for depressed women during pregnancy. T/F?
False - no longer reccomended.
What is neonatal abstinence syndrome?
Infant withdrawal from maternal use of opiates during pregnancy.
