- Industry: Health care
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A baby weighing less than three pounds three ounces at birth.
Industry:Parenting
A baby who is not growing as well as it should given his or her gestational age. Unlike premature babies, SGA babies are small because of slow development, not because they've had less time in the womb.
Industry:Parenting
A bacterium that can be found in the vagina that can be picked up by the baby as he or she passes through during childbirth, causing a very serious infection in the newborn. Testing for GBS is usually scheduled between weeks 35 and 37. The practitioner will use vaginal and rectal swabs, and if the result is positive, the treatment is to administer either IV antibiotics during labor or oral antibiotics during the last weeks of pregnancy.
Industry:Parenting
A barrier type birth control method that covers the cervix and prevents sperm from reaching the egg.
Industry:Parenting
A chemical secretion that the body produces to stimulate or slow down various body functions.
Industry:Parenting
A common sexually transmitted disease, often with no visible symptoms. Left untreated, chlamydia can make a woman infertile. If a woman who has chlamydia becomes pregnant, she can pass the infection on to the baby, causing pneumonia, eye infections, and, in severe cases, blindness. Chlamydia is treatable with antibiotics. All babies receive antibiotics in their eyes after they are born to protect against chlamydia.
Industry:Parenting
The bursting of the sac holding the amniotic fluid using an instrument resembling a crochet hook with a pointy tip. Practitioners often rupture the membranes to speed up a labor that has slowed.
Industry:Parenting
Drawing a substance into or out of the air passages. After a baby is born, the practitioner will aspirate the baby's mouth and nose using a bulb syringe to remove accumulated fluids or mucus and to prevent the baby from inhaling meconium, if any is present.
Industry:Parenting
Any procedure performed to help a woman become pregnant. See IVF and gamete intra-fallopian transfer.
Industry:Parenting
