- Industry: Health care
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A small flexible tube used to draw fluids from the body. During delivery, women who have received epidurals and can't urinate often have catheters placed into their bladders to allow the urine to empty into a bag.
Industry:Parenting
A small yellowish body of cells that form after ovulation and occupy the space in the follicle formally occupied by the egg in the ovary. It produces progesterone and estrogen and during pregnancy it supports the pregnancy until the placenta takes over the role at around ten weeks.
Industry:Parenting
A small, hollow flexible tube inserted into a vein so that fluids or medications can be given.
Industry:Parenting
A special care nursery for sick and premature newborns. NICUs are staffed with specialists trained to care for babies with special needs and use advanced technology in the care of those babies.
Industry:Parenting
A spot in a room — on the ceiling, floor, or wall, or a photograph or picture, for example — that a laboringwoman can concentrate on to help her maintain control during contractions.
Industry:Parenting
A sterilization procedure in which a woman's fallopian tubes are cut and tied off to prevent pregnancy.
Industry:Parenting
A stitch placed in a weak or incompetent cervix to keep the cervix closed and support a pregnancy to term.
Industry:Parenting
A surgical procedure in which a baby is delivered through a cut in the abdomen and uterus. Used when a woman can't give birth vaginally. Also called C-section.
Industry:Parenting
A synthetic form of estrogen once given to women to prevent miscarriage. The daughter of a woman who took DES while pregnant with her may have an incompetent cervix.
Industry:Parenting
