intrapartum

Question 1

period during labor and delivery starting before labor admission through to the immediate postpartum period

Answer 1

intrapartum period

Question 2

care of women and their babies, during labor and immediately after birth

Answer 2

intrapartum care

Question 3

physiologic and mechanical series of processes where all products of conception are expelled from the birth canal

Answer 3

labor/parturition

Question 4

actual event of birth

Answer 4

delivery

Question 5

4 components of labor (4Ps)

Answer 5

passenger, passage, power, psychology

Question 6

the passengers

Answer 6

fetus, membranes, and placenta

Question 7

largest part of the body; most frequent presenting part; least compressible of all parts

Answer 7

fetal head

Question 8

cranial bones of the fetal head

Answer 8

2 frontal, 2 parietal, 2 temporal, 1 occipital

Question 9

thin spaces in between bones; aid in molding of fetal skull

Answer 9

sutures

Question 10

anterior suture between 2 frontal bones

Answer 10

frontal sutures

Question 11

anterior suture between frontal and parietal bones

Answer 11

coronal suture

Question 12

longitudinal, midline suture joining 2 parietal bones

Answer 12

sagittal suture

Question 13

posterior suture between parietal and occipital bones

Answer 13

lambdoid suture

Question 14

points of intersection of cranial bones; membranes-filled spaces between cranial bones; referred to as “soft spot”

Answer 14

fontanels

Question 15

formed by 2 frontal bones and 2 parietal bones; lies at the junction of sagittal, coronal and frontal sutures; diamond-shaped; closes when infant is 12 to 18 months old

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anterior fontanelle (B regma)

Question 16

formed by union of 2 parietal and 1 occipital bones; triangular shaped; closes in infant 6 to 8 weeks or 2-3 months old

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posterior fontanelle (lambda)

Question 17

Slight overlapping of the cranial bones due to the force of uterine contractions pressing the
head against the cervix; Skull becomes elongated shape; permits passage to the maternal pelvis

Answer 17

molding

Question 18

: area behind the posterior fontanel

Answer 18

occiput

Question 19

lies between the 2 fontanels and extends to the parietal bones

Answer 19

vertex

Question 20

Located in front of the anterior fontanel

Answer 20

sinciput

Question 21

diameters of the fetal skull

Answer 21

anteroposterior diameter