Vocab

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Nurture

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To support and encourage growth and development

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Values

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Beliefs about what is right, worth while, or desirable

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Parenting

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Providing care, support, and love in a way that leads to a child’s total development

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Potential

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What a person is capable of becoming

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Decision making process

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A step by step system of evaluating information in order to reach a reasonable conclusion

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Parenting readiness

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Personal qualities and life circumstances that enable individuals to be successful parents

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Physical maturity

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Level of physical growth and development

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Psychological maturity

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Development of the mind and emotions

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Amniocentesis

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A technique that enables doctors to check for fetal abnormalities that might cause birth defects

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Amniotic sac

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Fluid filled sac that encloses the embryo and fetus

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Anemia

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Low blood count, or too few red blood cells

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Certified nurse midwife

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Person trained to care for women with low risk pregnancies and to deliver their babies

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Chorionic villus sampling (CVS)

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First test for birth defects that may be preformed during pregnancy

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Embryo

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Ball of rapidly multiplying cells that develops during the second stage of prenatal development, which lasts from the end of the second week of pregnancy through the eighth week

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Trimester

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One of three stages of pregnancy, each with unique emotional and physical characteristics

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Ultrasound

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High frequency sound waves that are bounced off the developing fetus to produce a video image, or sonogram

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Umbilical cord

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Cord that attaches the embryo to the placenta

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Zygote

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New cell formed after sperm and ovum unite

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Fetus

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Name for the unborn child during the third and final stage of prenatal development

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Obstetrician

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Doctor who specializes in delivering babies

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Placenta

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Tissues that connects the umbilical cord of an embryo or fetus to the uterine wall

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Rh factor

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A condition in which a substance present in the blood can cause problems with pregnancy

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Depression

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Prolonged period of sadness marked by feelings of helplessness and an inability to enjoy life

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Lochia

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Normal discharge of blood, tissue, and mucus from vagina after birth

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Postnatal

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After childbirth

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Postpartum blues

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Moodiness, anxiety, depression, or anger sometimes felt by a woman after giving birth

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Ambidextrous

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Ability to use both hands equally well

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Eye hand coordination

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Coordinating vision with small motor skills

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Flame retardant

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Not easily set on fire and does not burn quickly

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Growth spurts

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A period of accelerate development, often when parts of the body grow at different rates

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Large motor skills

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Those skills involving the control and use of large muscles, especially those in the arms and legs

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Manual dexterity

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Skilled use of the hands

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Orthodontist

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A specialist in straightening and realigning teeth

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Small motor skills

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Abilities that rely on the control and use of small muscles, especially those in the fingers and hands

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Sphincter muscle

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Muscles in the bowel and bladder regions that control elimination