Labor & Birth Processes

What are the five factors or "P's" of labor and birth

Passenger (fetus/placenta), Passageway (Birth Canal), Powers (contractions), position of the mother, psyche (psychological responses)
What are fontanels?

Membrane filled spaces that are located where the membranous sutures that unite the bones in the fetal/neonatal skull intersect.
What is Molding

Slight overlapping of the bones of the fetal skull that occurs during childbirth; it permits the skull to adapt to the various pelvic diameters
_________________ = Part of the fetus that enters the pelvic inlet first.
The three main types are:

Presentation; cephalic, breech, shoulder
What is the Presenting Part? The three types are?

Part of the fetal body felt first by the examining finger during vaginal examination.

Occiput, sacrum, scapula

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Labor & Birth Processes

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2012-05-12T04:50:27Z