Nursing Care Related To Care Psychological and Physiologic Changes of Pregnancy

Question 1

Accept the reality of pregnancy

Answer 1

1st trimester (Accepting the Pregnancy)

Question 2

Accepting the reality of having a baby

Answer 2

2nd trimester

Question 3

Interested in attending prenatal and childbirth classes

Answer 3

Nest Building

Question 4

What are the 10 emotional responses to pregnancy?

Answer 4

1. Ambivalence
2. Grief
3. Narcissism
4. Introversion vs. Extroversion
5. Body image & boundary
6. Stress
7. Couvade Syndrome
8. Emotional Lability
9. Changes in sexual desire
10. Changes in the expectant family

Question 5

A combination of pleasure and anxiety

Answer 5

Ambivalence

Question 6

Seeing the fetal outline on screen may promote acceptance

Answer 6

Sonogram

Question 7

The moment the woman feels fetal movement proof of the child’s existence

Answer 7

Quickening

Question 8

A trimester when the mother tries to imagine, role-play, fantasize

Answer 8

2nd Trimester

Question 9

T/F Progesterone decreases temperature slightly early in the pregnancy due to corpus luteum activity

Answer 9

False ( the progesterone increases slightly

Question 10

Blood loss at a normal vaginal birth

Answer 10

300 to 400 ml

Question 11

Symptoms of Supine Hypotensive Syndrome

Answer 11

lightheadedness, faintness, palpitations

Question 12

Increased saliva formation

Answer 12

Hyperpytalism

Question 13

Blood volume normally increases during pregnancy. The extent of this increase is what percentage of pregnancy volume?

Answer 13

30 to 50%

Question 14

Test of blood serum reveals HCG

Answer 14

Serum laboratory tests

Question 15

Feeling of tenderness, fullness, or tingling; enlargement and darkening of areola

Answer 15

Breast Changes

Question 16

Sense of having to void frequently

Answer 16

Frequent urination

Question 17

Color change of the vagina from pink to violet

Answer 17

Chadwick’s sign

Question 18

Softening of the cervix

Answer 18

Goodell’s sign

Question 19

General feeling of tiredness

Answer 19

Fatigue

Question 20

Uterus can be palpated over symphysis pubis

Answer 20

Uterine enlargement

Question 21

When lower uterine segment is tapped on an bimanual examination, the fetus can be felt to rise against abdominal wall

Answer 21

Ballottement

Question 22

Fetal movement felt by woman

Answer 22

Quickening

Question 23

Periodic uterine tightening occurs

Answer 23

Braxton Hicks contractions

Question 24

Fetal outline can be palpated through abdomen

Answer 24

Fetal outline felt by examiner

Question 25

Line of dark pigment on abdomen

Answer 25

Linea negra

Question 26

Dark pigment on face

Answer 26

Melasma

Question 27

Red streaks on abdome

Answer 27

Striae gravidarum