LAMAZE CBE FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026
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Day to day living influences pregnant women and babies
......ANSWER........- Stress of work or family life may cause stress
on mother and baby
- Exercise as a daily routine can help bring comfort to the body
and help release tension from the mind.
- Smoking or second hand smoke is detrimental to mother and
baby
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- Eating habits can help nourish mom and baby or not
depending on mom's food choices.
- Women have to adapt to their environment once pregnant,
dealing with tiredness at work or at home, nausea that may
keep them from being able to work, discomforts from a growing
belly that make it difficult to do things easily
oxytocin ......ANSWER........a hormone released by the pituitary
gland that causes increased contraction of the uterus during
labor and stimulates the ejection of milk into the ducts of the
breasts.
Endorphins ......ANSWER........natural, opiate-like
neurotransmitters linked to pain control and to pleasure... the
more oxytocin, the more endorphins
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Catecholamines ......ANSWER........hormones secreted by the
adrenal medulla that affect the sympathetic nervous system in
stress response- fight or flight response. Bad during early labor,
good at the end of labor.
Prolactin ......ANSWER........stimulates milk production
Common Postpartum Complications ......ANSWER........UTI's
Infections causing fevers- mastitis, uterine infection,
episiotomy/tear, c-section
diastis recti
Lamaze Fundamental for pregnancy (7) ......ANSWER........1.
Pregnancy is a normal, natural life event.
2. Women's bodies are designed to nourish and nurture their
babies through
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pregnancy.
3. Each week of pregnancy is necessary for babies to grow and
mature, for women's bodies to develop for birth and
breastfeeding, and for women to prepare to become mothers.
4. Pregnancy provides an opportunity for mothers and fathers to
begin forming lifelong bonds with their babies.
5. A good support system, a healthy lifestyle and the ability to
cope with the stresses of life promote a healthy pregnancy, a
healthy birth and a healthy baby.
6. The health-care system and care provider can increase or
decrease a woman's confidence in the normality of pregnancy
and in her ability to have a healthy baby.