Question | Answer |
AROM | Artificial rupture of membranes |
Bloody Show | mucus plug out pink secretions |
Breech | buttock or feet are presenting |
Cardinal movements | Descent Flexion Internal rotation Extension Restitution External rotation Expulsion |
Crowning | fetal head is encircled by the external opening of the vagina |
Duration | beginning to the end of a contraction |
Effacement | the pulling on cervical OS thinning |
Fetal Attitude | relationship of fetal body parts arms legs flexed head flexed forward |
Fetal Lie | cephalocaudal axis (spine) of fetus to that of mother longitudinal or transverse |
Fetal Position | 3 letter notation describe fetal landmark to mom RL side of mom pelvis Fetal presenting partOMSA &which side of pelvisAPT |
Fetal Presentation | depending on Lie and what part presents in pelvic passage |
Cephalic Presentations | Vertex Military Brow Face |
Fontanelles | Anterior Posterior |
Frequency | time between beginning of one contraction to the beginning of the next |
Intensity | strength of contraction mild moderate strong |
Lightening | fetus moves into pelvic inlet engagement breathing becomes much easier |
Malpresentations | Breech and Shoulder presentations |
Molding | overlapping of cranial bones |
Presenting Part | 1st part of fetus to enter birth canal |
SROM | Spontaneous rupture of Membranes |
Station | Position of presenting part in pelvis 0 is at ischial spine Above Negative further in Below Positive closer |
Sutures | cranial bone joints |
4 Classical Pelvis | Gynecoid Android Anthropoid Platypelloid |
False Labor | Contractions irregular WO change in duration or intensity discomfort in abdomen no change W walking No change in cervix |
True Labor | Contractions regular interval shorten increase duration and intensity discomfort in back moving to abdomen pain increase walking cervix dilates and effacement |
Stages of labor | 1st 2nd 3rd 4th |
1st stage labor | latent active transition phases |
2nd stage labor | cervical dilation and crowning Spontaneous birth |
3rd stage labor | Placental Separation and delivery |
4th Stage labor | 1-4 hrs250-500ml blood loss slight drop in BP Chills |