- Industria: Health care
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A facility offering a homelike setting for childbirth. It is designed for women with low-risk pregnancies. Birthing centers often have less restrictive regulations than hospitals & for example, friends and family may be permitted to visit during the delivery.
Industry:Parenting
A female's reproductive cell produced by the ovary and fertilized by sperm to form an embryo. Also called an ovum.
Industry:Parenting
A form of birth control. Depoprovera is a high dose of the hormone progestin, which is injected every three months.
Industry:Parenting
A full-term infant weighing less than five pounds eight ounces at birth.
Industry:Parenting
A gelatinous "cork" of mucus often tinted with blood that seals the opening of the uterus during pregnancy. At the start of labor, or in some cases, a few weeks before labor actually begins, this thick, gloppy, bloody plug becomes dislodged from the cervix and passes through the vagina. See bloody show.
Industry:Parenting
A genetic blood disorder in which blood does not clot properly. It almost always occurs in males, though women can be carriers.
Industry:Parenting
A genetic disorder (most commonly seen in Ashkenazi Jews) in which the baby lacks an essential enzyme and dies in early childhood. A preconception test can determine whether potential parents are carriers of the disease.
Industry:Parenting
A genetic disorder (most commonly seen in populations of African descent) that causes abnormally shaped red blood cells.
Industry:Parenting
