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Preterm labor - ✔✔34-36 6/7 weeks
Stages of labor - ✔✔1: full effacement + dilation, most variable/longest
stage
2: birth of baby
3: birth of placenta
4: recover
3 phases of transition during 6-8hrs post birth - ✔✔First period of
reactivity: best time to BF
, Period of decreased responsiveness
Second period of reactivity
Leopold's maneuver determines 3 characteristics - ✔✔Fetal lie
(longitudinal, transverse)
Fetal attitude (flexed)
Fetal presentation (vertex or breech)
Lochia types - ✔✔Rubra: 1-3d, bright red, grape size clots
Serosa: 3-10d, pink/brown
Alba: 10-14d, yellow/white
Fundal assessment - ✔✔Mom is flat, relaxed, knees flexed
Support lower uterine segement
Palpate with side of hand
Fundus location 12hr after birth - ✔✔1cm above umbilicus
When will fundus be non-palpable - ✔✔2 weeks