Prenatal Development Vocabulary

a developmental process that refers to the ability to experience, express, and control emotions

• Intellectual Development

• Social Development

• Emotional Development

• Physical Development

process by which baby gradually moves out of the uterus into the vagina to be born.

• Placenta

• Dilation

• Labor

• Vagina

the time for the mother after the baby is born

• Prenatal

• Delivery

• Pregnancy

• Postpartum

the period of the child after the birth

• Prenatal

• Postnatal

• Pregnancy

• Postpartum

open spaces in a baby's head where the bones have not joined

• Afterbirth

• Fontanels

• perineum

• Cervix

the birth canal that allows the baby to be delivered

• Delivery

• Dilation

• Vagina

• Cervix

the developing baby from conception until the second week of pregnancy.

• Period of the

  Fetus

• Period of the Zygote

• Period of the Embryo

• Period of the Pregnancy

the time before the baby is born.

• Prenatal

• Postnatal

• Pregnancy

• Postpartum

to deliver the baby by making a surgical incision in the mother's abdomen

• Afterbirth

• Cesarean Birth

• Vaginal Birth

• Delivery

developmental process that refers to the ability to know right from wrong

• Intellectual Development

• Social Development

• Moral Development

• Physical Development