Interesting Links to Sites about Prenatal Care, Labor and Delivery, Prenatal Development and Birth Defects

These sites have been reviewed by the Central A&M Child Development Class.

 

Childbirth Labor and Delivery

http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/hist8.html

The history of Childbirth thought the shameful practice of child labor
Should have played an important role in the Industrial Revolution.

http://www.childbirth.org/articles/whichcbe.html 

  Great childbirth classes to take during pregnancy to help your pregnancy go smoother.

  http://www.childbirth.org/articles/feeding/breastfed.html 

  Information related to breast-feeding, including the basics:  Pumping, returning to work, medical questions and legal issues.

http://Content.health.msn.com/content/dmk_article_5963041

Whether you experience labor prematurely, right on schedule, or well past your due date, no two labors are alike.  The following briefly describes what you can expect in a normal, routine labor and delivery.

  http://www.childbirth.org/AskANurse/pros.html 

Ask the pro's questions and answers with any problems or anything you would want to know about childbirth.

http://www.childbirth.org/articles/child.html 

 Terms to know about Newborns and babies.  Such as:  Babies, Complications, Fathering, Feeding baby, Mothering, newborns, parenting and safety Issues for your child.

  http://alexandertechnique.com/articles/pregnancy 

The Alexander Technique is very useful during each phase of becoming a parent.

  http://www.makewayforbaby.com

This site is a bout the fetal development of the child.  It explains a lot of stuff on child birth.  This site also gives you a lot of children’s names so that you can figure out if you want a name close to one of those or an off the wall one. 

  http://www.2bparent.com/pregnancy.htm 

 This site shows the symptoms and the signs of pregnancy.  It also talks about  the objectives of prenatal care and the visits to the doctors office.   Pregnancy  danger signs are also talked about. They also discuss taking care of yourself during pregnancy.

  http://www.familyweb.com/pregnancy/natal/natpt102.html 

  has information on your first visit, last visit, special tests, amniocentesis, also an ultra sound .   This site also gives you information on when the baby is due.  It also tells you what kind of doctor you should have nurses also. 

  http://www.thebabiesplanet.com/bbpnatal.shtml 

The prenatal screening procedures are also talked about on this site.  The role of prenatal care in prevention of low birth weight(nutritional care, and medical care).  Prenatal and postnatal care (development of the baby, pregnant lifestyle, some discomforts labor, and many much more. 

Prenatal Care  

  http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/digest/children.html 

  This site gives some history on prenatal care.  Places to get the help that you need.  Possible dangers when you are pregnant( smoking, etc).  Gives some of the birth defects that newborn children may have.  This site also gives a very brief definition of prenatal development. 

  http://www.makewayforbaby.com/ 

This site is a bout the fetal development of the child.  It explains a lot of stuff on childbirth.  This site also gives you a lot of children’s names so that you can figure out if you want a name close to one of those or an off the wall one. 

http://www.2bparent.com/pregnancy.htm 

  This site shows the symptoms and the signs of pregnancy.  It also talks about objectives of prenatal care and the visits to the doctor’s office.   Danger signs during pregnancy are also talked about. They also discuss taking care of yourself during pregnancy.

  http://www.thebabiesplanet.com/bbpnatal.shtml 

  The prenatal screening procedures are talked about on this site.  There is information about the role of prenatal care in prevention of low birth weight (nutritional care, and medical care).  Prenatal and postnatal care (development of the baby, pregnant lifestyle, some discomforts labor, and many much more. 

 

Birth Defects

  http://www.southalabama.edu/genetics/gdrophealth.htm 

This website links over twenty different types of birth defects or syndromes.

  http://babyzone.com/drnathan/medref/birthdefects.htm 

  This site has statistics on birth defects and ways that can doctors can help with deliveries and what they can do to help with noticeable defects.

  http://www.modimes.org/ 

  This is the site official site of the March of Dimes.

 

Prenatal Development

  http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/devel/common/birth.htm#neonatal 

This site shows you all the differences that the fetus goes through the first weeks. It also shows good ultrasound pictures.

  http://www.w-cpc.org/fetal.html 

On this site it gives you a brief description about the development of the embryo and zygote. On the description it tells you the sizes, movement, and position. From the home page you can go through each time star and view pictures of the unborn child.

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This page last updated:  04/17/06