1. Chapter 16
Pregnancy
&
Birth

2. Reasons for having children
POSITIVE
Secure relationship
Secure job
Secure housing
Emotionally ready
Physically ready
Love children
NEGATIVE
If I get pregnant, he will marry me
All of our friends are having babies
Then everyone will know I’m an adult
I need someone to love me

3. Planning a Family Prenatal Care
Contraception- Preventing pregnancy/birth control
Infertile- Tests done/ Treatments
Adoption- 3rd world popular now!!!
Foster parents

4. Teenage Pregnancy
What are reasons why US has a HIGH teen pregnancy rate?
Why is it a health problem?
What problems do teenage parents face?

5. Conception & Pregnancy
Fertilization- Also called conception.
It is the union of the egg from mother & sperm from father
ZYGOTE
United egg & sperm
Divided & makes dozens of cells

6. Conception & Pregnancy
BLASTOCYST
Hollow sphere, made up of hundreds of cells
After 4-5 days
Implants into wall of Uterus

7. Conception & Pregnancy
EMBRYO
After implantation occurs
Placenta
Umbilical cord
Amniotic sac
Amniotic fluid

8. Conception & Pregnancy
FETUS
After 2nd month of pregnancy (1.2 inches)
Starts to take on human characteristics
Hair, facial features, ears, move & kick,
Muscles & sense organs develop
* 26 weeks (survival)

9. 1st Trimester
Excited & happy
Morning Sickness
Very tired
Moodiness

10. 2nd Trimester Probably the best Fetus begins moving
Fluid released from nipples
Less tired
Continuing to get bigger

11. 3rd Trimester WHEN IS THIS BABY COMING?? Maximum weight
Contractions- real & fake (Braxton Hicks)
Back to tired
Very uncomfortable

12. Sympathetic Pregnancy
Fathers experience
Weight gain
Tired
Morning sickness
Etc.
DADS HAVE PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS TOO: Q: My wife is pregnant and I've started putting on weight too! I've also been having nose bleeds and headaches. What's wrong with me?

13. Prenatal Care Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Amniocentesis- older test to detect abnormalities
Chorionic Villus Sampling- newer test, chorion from the placenta is removed
Ultrasound- picture of fetus

14. Birth Stages Labor- contractions begin (lasts awhile)
Delivery- ½ hour to 2 hours…actual birth of baby
Afterbirth- 3rd stage, consists of delivery of the placenta (15-30 minutes)

15. APGAR SCORE
Take 2X’s…immediately after birth and roughly 5 minutes later. Score of 0-10
Heartrate
Breathing
Muscle Tone
Reaction to Stimulus
Skin color

16. Complications
Ectopic pregnancy- implantation occurs in the fallopian tube
Miscarriage- Expulsion of dead zygote, blastocyst, embryo, or fetus
Stillbirth- birth of a dead full-term fetus
Toxemia- HBP, protein in urine, swelling
Rh Factor- Mother and Fetus’s blood protein differ

17. Problems at birth Cesarean section- surgical method of birth
Premature birth
Umbilical cord
Heart rate
Oxygen

18. Multiple births Identical twins- develop from the same egg
Fraternal twins- Develop from 2 eggs