Labor and Delivery

Name the 3 stages of childbirth?

• birth of baby
• birth of placenta
• labor
• all answers

What is one signal that labor has begun?

• contractions
• water breaking
• loss of mucus plugs
• all of the above

What is dilation?

• the thinning of the cervix
• the widening of the cervix
• labor pains
• the baby crowning

What is one thing the mother can do to help with labor pain?

• Epidural
• sleep
• go for a walk
• watch TV

What does the cervix have to be for the mother to start pushing?

• 5cm
• 10cm
• 3cm
• 9cm

What is it called when the head is first visable?

• Lightening
• Quickening
• Crowning
• the head

1.  What is it called when an incision is made through the skin and muscles in the lower abdomin in order to deliver the baby?

• suture
• episiotomy
• tear
• Cesarean section

1.  What has to be done to the baby immediately following birth?

• Mucus has to be suctioned out of the nose and lungs
• nothing
• handed to the mother
• slapped

1.  What is delivered after the baby?

• Mucus plug
• placenta
• blood
• the uterus

1.  What 2 things can the doctor use to assist the baby out of the birth canal?

• hands and feet
• vacuum and forceps
• fingers and toes
• scissors and grips