- Industry: Health care
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Swelling due to the accumulation of fluids in the tissues. Swelling in the ankles and feet occurs in 75 percent of pregnant women.
Industry:Parenting
Removing breast milk from the breasts using a pump to store for a later feeding.
Industry:Parenting
Rhogam, also known as Rh immunoglobulin, is a specially developed blood product that can prevent an Rh-negative mother's antibodies from attacking the fetus's Rh-positive cells. Rh-negative women will receive RhIg around the 28th week of pregnancy or at the time of an amniocentesis.
Industry:Parenting
Simple exercise designed to tone the muscles in the vaginal and perineal area, strengthening them in preparation for delivery. To do Kegels, a woman firmly tenses the muscles around the vagina and anus, holding it as long as possible, then slowly releases the muscles.
Industry:Parenting
Someone who is trained in basic childbirth support skills and helps the laboring mother during labor and delivery.
Industry:Parenting
Slower than normal growth of a fetus in the womb.
Industry:Parenting
One of the reflexes present at birth in which the baby opens his or her mouth and turns the head to nurse when the cheek is stroked.
Industry:Parenting
Pain in the tailbone area (coccyx) following delivery because of injury to the muscles of the pelvic floor or because the tailbone is fractured.
Industry:Parenting
