Nursing: Postpartum, Newborn, Breastfeeding

Choose Two actions that a mother can do to maintain milk production?

• Stimulation of nipple by baby or mother's fingers

• Removal of milk by baby or pumping

• Exposing breasts to open air

• Placing a frozen bag of vegetables onto breast while holding the baby

When palpating the uterus postpartum, the top of the uterus is called:

• neck

• advantage point

• fundus

• ectopic point

Name a Nursing Intervention that will assist a patient that has had a Cesarean delivery's gastro-intestinal system's return of function?

• nothing by mouth

• ambulation

• palpation

• bedrest

Biliruben level greater than 14 would be exhibeted by the infant how?

• distended abdomen

• rash over the trunk of the body

• respiratory rate of 64 beats per minute

• yellow coloring of the skin

Name an activity that bonds infant to father in first hours of life:

• grasping father's finger

• gazing

• baby bath

• all of the above

How far from the breast should the nose be located during a feeding?

• Touching the breast

• 1/4 inch

• 1/2 inch

• 3/4 inch

Caloric need of infant after the first week of life will be how many calories per kilogram every 24 hours?

• 225 calories per Kilogram

• 150 calories per Kilogram

• 200calories per Kilogram

• 100 calories per Kilogram

Color of breastmilk stool?

• brown

• meconium

• yellow

• greenish brown

By the 5th day postpartum the lochia will be this color:

• rubra

• alba

• clear

• serosa

exercise to improve the perineal muscles that are done postpartum?

• crunches

• Kegel

• back arches

• Calypso