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Abbreviation and Definitions

Abbreviations and Definitions

(Source: Internet)

Anatomy: Fetus in Utero

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Utero is a Latin term literally meaning "in the womb" or "in the uterus".)

Birth Partner

Life partner/Husband. The role of a birth partner is to give you practical and emotional support when you're in labor. There are lots of benefits to having a birth partner, and midwives and obstetricians are encouraged to get birth partners involved in the birth.

C-Section

Cesarean delivery (also called a cesarean section or C-section) is the surgical delivery of a baby by an incision through the mother's abdomen (belly) and uterus (womb).

Doula

The doula is usually a women supports in birth support who provides emotional, physical, and educational support to a mother who is expecting, is experiencing labor, or has recently given birth. Their purpose is to help women have a supportive, reassuring and empowering birthing experience.

Fetus

An unborn offspring of a mammal, in particular an unborn human more than eight weeks after conception.

Labor

Labor: Childbirth, the process of delivering a baby and the placenta, membranes, and umbilical cord from the uterus though the vagina to the outside world.

Lamaze

The Lamaze technique, also known as the psych prophylactic method or simply Lamaze, began as a prepared childbirth technique, popularized in the 1950s by French obstetrician Dr. Fernand Lamaze based on his observations in the Soviet Union, as an alternative to medical intervention during childbirth

Lamaze Class

Lamaze® International uses a contemporary curriculum that supports birth as normal, natural, and healthy, and empowers expectant women and their partners to make informed decisions. The class content includes: Normal labor, birth, and the early postpartum period. Positioning for labor and birth.

Meconium

Meconium is the earliest stool of a mammalian infant. Unlike later feces, meconium is composed of materials ingested during the time the infant spends in the uterus: intestinal epithelial cells, lanugo, mucus, amniotic fluid, bile and water.

Midwife/

Midwifery

A midwife is a skilled, trained health care professional who provides an array of maternity care services for women including gynecological examinations, contraceptive counseling, prescriptions, and labor and delivery care. Providing expert care during labor and delivery, and after birth is a specialty that makes midwives unique.

The Midwifery Model of Care is based on the belief that pregnancy and birth are normal life processes.

Traditional Birth Attendants

Traditional birth attendants are often older women, respected in their communities. They consider themselves as private health care practitioners who respond to requests for service. The focus of their work is to assist women during delivery and immediately post-partum.

VBAC

Vaginal Birth After C-section (Pronounced: V-BACK)

 

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