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Glossary of antepartum and fetal development
Created by bfnurse
- ballotment
- bounce up when touched
- Chadwick\'s Sign
- cervix turns bluish color; increased vascularity and blood flow; friable cervix (multip = touch and bleed)
- Gadelle\'s sign
- how soft the cervix is
- GPTPAL
- Gravida
Para
Term
Preterm
Abortions
Living - Hagar\'s sign
- soft isthmus (between cervix and fundus)
- Hormones of pregnancy
- hCG, hPL, estrogen, progesterone, relaxin: prostaglandins.
- infant bilirubin level
- 1-12 (norm
- McDonald\'s sign
- flexibility of cervix
- Ovaries - pregnancy
- stops producing ova but corpus luteum continues to produce hormones until about 6-8 weeks
- POSITIVE signs of pregnancy
- detection of the fetal heartbeat
visualization of the fetus - Pregnancy - Breasts
- hypertrophy of the mammary glands and Montgomery\'s follicles; increased pigmentation of nipples and areola, striae, colostrum.
- Pregnancy - cervix
- Glandular hypertrophy - formation of mucous plug (protective barrier); increased vascularity
- Pregnancy - Endocrine
- Thydrid - enlarges, increasing BMR; Pituitary enlarges, increases hormone secretion (LH, Prolactin, TSH), oxytocin; adrenals - cortisol increases and aldosterone; pancreas - increased insulin needs.
- Pregnancy - UTERUS
- enlarges; becomes an abdominal organ at about 12 weeks; Braxton Hicks contractions (throughout pregnancy)
- PRESUMPTIVE signs of labor
- amenorrhea
N/V
fatigue
urinary frequency
breast tenderness
quickening - PROBABLE signs of labor
- Chadwick\'s sign
Godell\'s sign
Hegar\'s Sign
McDonald\'s Sign
abdominal enlargement
uterine souffle
positive preg test
ballottement - uterine souffle
- picking up mother\'s pulse and not fetal (check mother when checking FHR)
- When detect FHR with fetoscope?
- 6-8 weeks
- When FHR detectable with doppler (with most pregnancies)??
- 16 weeks
- When is it possible to detect the FHR with doppler?
- 10-17 weeks
