1 / 18

Understanding Pregnancy: From Conception to Birth

Explore the journey of pregnancy, from conception of the zygote to fetal development, prenatal care, and complications, including childbirth and multiple births.

felipem
Download Presentation

Understanding Pregnancy: From Conception to Birth

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Chapter 16 Pregnancy & Birth

  2. POSITIVE Secure relationship Secure job Secure housing Emotionally ready Physically ready Love children NEGATIVE If I get pregnant, he will marry me All of our friends are having babies Then everyone will know I’m an adult I need someone to love me Reasons for having children

  3. Planning a Family • Prenatal Care • Contraception- Preventing pregnancy/birth control • Infertile- Tests done/ Treatments • Adoption- 3rd world popular now!!! • Foster parents

  4. Teenage Pregnancy • What are reasons why US has a HIGH teen pregnancy rate? • Why is it a health problem? • What problems do teenage parents face?

  5. Conception & Pregnancy • Fertilization- Also called conception. • It is the union of the egg from mother & sperm from father • ZYGOTE • United egg & sperm • Divided & makes dozens of cells

  6. Conception & Pregnancy • BLASTOCYST • Hollow sphere, made up of hundreds of cells • After 4-5 days • Implants into wall of Uterus

  7. Conception & Pregnancy • EMBRYO • After implantation occurs • Placenta • Umbilical cord • Amniotic sac • Amniotic fluid

  8. Conception & Pregnancy • FETUS • After 2nd month of pregnancy (1.2 inches) • Starts to take on human characteristics • Hair, facial features, ears, move & kick, • Muscles & sense organs develop * 26 weeks (survival)

  9. 1st Trimester • Excited & happy • Morning Sickness • Very tired • Moodiness

  10. 2nd Trimester • Probably the best • Fetus begins moving • Fluid released from nipples • Less tired • Continuing to get bigger

  11. 3rd Trimester • WHEN IS THIS BABY COMING?? • Maximum weight • Contractions- real & fake (Braxton Hicks) • Back to tired • Very uncomfortable

  12. Sympathetic Pregnancy • Fathers experience • Weight gain • Tired • Morning sickness • Etc. • DADS HAVE PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS TOO:Q: My wife is pregnant and I've started putting on weight too! I've also been having nose bleeds and headaches. What's wrong with me?

  13. Prenatal Care • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome • Amniocentesis- older test to detect abnormalities • Chorionic Villus Sampling- newer test, chorion from the placenta is removed • Ultrasound- picture of fetus

  14. Birth • Stages • Labor- contractions begin (lasts awhile) • Delivery- ½ hour to 2 hours…actual birth of baby • Afterbirth- 3rd stage, consists of delivery of the placenta (15-30 minutes)

  15. APGAR SCORE • Take 2X’s…immediately after birth and roughly 5 minutes later. Score of 0-10 • Heartrate • Breathing • Muscle Tone • Reaction to Stimulus • Skin color

  16. Complications • Ectopic pregnancy- implantation occurs in the fallopian tube • Miscarriage- Expulsion of dead zygote, blastocyst, embryo, or fetus • Stillbirth- birth of a dead full-term fetus • Toxemia- HBP, protein in urine, swelling • Rh Factor- Mother and Fetus’s blood protein differ

  17. Problems at birth • Cesarean section- surgical method of birth • Premature birth • Umbilical cord • Heart rate • Oxygen

  18. Multiple births • Identical twins- develop from the same egg • Fraternal twins- Develop from 2 eggs

More Related