There are some words you know before having a baby:
• Uterus
• Cervix
• Lactation
• First, Second and Third Trimesters
Then there are some words you THOUGHT you knew what they meant (turns out, your understanding is limited at best):
• fully Dialated
• Mucus Plug
• Breech (there's 5 kinds of breech. And this isn't even including the many forms of Presentation)
• Presentation
• Full Panel verses Roll Panel... and Low Rise verses Real Waist maternity pants
• Placenta (this mo-fo weighs 1.5lbs and gets huge! Its not pretty either)
• Fetus (did you know its not a fetus till you are 8 weeks pregnant? Before that, its an embryo)
Then there are the words that make no sense unless you are a pregnant (or, formerly pregnant) woman:
• Fundal height
• fully Effaced
• a "bloody show"
• Collastrum
• Placenta Previa
2 comments:
I'm not sure what it is and I don't want to know, but I'm not sure anything in the world should actually be called a "mucus plug". I think I am going to throw up now.
Oh you don't throw it up... but you do "pass" it...
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