Health Flashcards
is a social activity that involves two or more people generally assessing each
other’s suitability for a potential relationship. It can also be enjoyed as part of
an already active relationship.
Dating
an establishment of a more enduring kind of an agreed relationship
precedes engagement and marriage in the period of couple’s relationship
a private or an informal matter between two people, or a formal arrangement
with family approva.
Courtship
is an agreement entered between two people in love, a means of knowing each other and their families well, a way to ensure that they are ready and are suited for life-long companionship.
Engagement
is the most enjoyable human relationship and the most important event that may
happen to your life. It takes only two people, a man, and a woman to unite and make a successful relationship as a married couple.
Marriage
The passage of a baby from its mother’s uterus to the outside of her body. The uterus contracts many times and pushes the baby through the vagina and outside the mother’s body.
Birth
is the process that lasts from the time contractions start until the delivery of the child and the placenta.
Labor
Begins with the first contraction and lasts until the cervix has opened enough to allow the baby to pass through. Contraction happens every few minutes and lasts a minute.
1st Stage
Starts when the cervix is completely open and lasts until the baby is delivered. During this period, contraction happens every 2-3 minutes. After the baby is born, the doctor cuts the umbilical cord. Healthy babies breathe and cry almost immediately.
2nd Stage
This is the final stage of labor. It is when the placenta is delivered. In this stage, the mother’s uterine contractions push the placenta or “afterbirths” out of her body. At this time, the birth is completed.
3rd Stage
In some cases, doctors must deliver a baby by ——– The doctor surgically removes the baby and the placenta from the mother’s
uterus.
Cesarian Section (CS)
Avoid vices such as smoking and drinking alcoholic beverages.
Avoid stressful activities.
See to it that she gets the necessary pre-natal and post-natal check-up.
Do exercises like walking, yoga, etc.
Eat nutritious food.
Mother’s Role
See to it that the mother gets the necessary pre-natal and post-natal checkup.
He must take care of the mother and the baby.
He should see to it that the necessary immunizations as scheduled are
strictly followed.
He should provide healthy diet meals for the mother and the child
Father’s Role
Which of the following is not true?
- Accompany a pregnant woman in a daily exercise for motivation.
- Give fruits, vegetables, and lots of water.
- Listening to music gives a pregnant woman as well as the baby in her womb
relaxation. - Let her sleep on her right side.
- Go together with a pregnant woman during check-ups.
4. Let her sleep on her left side
It is the traditional and ideal form of infant feeding, meeting an infant’s nutritional needs for his first four to six months of life.
Breastfeeding
It is the period of milk production initiated by the prolactin hormone in the mammary glands.
Lactation
