- المجال: Health care
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Using artificial means (such as drugs like pitocin or prostaglandins or by rupturing of the membranes) to start labor.
Industry:Parenting
Using hypnosis during labor. It employs suggestions and the power of the mind to control labor pain.
Industry:Parenting
Tong-shaped instruments that are inserted into the vagina and placed around the baby's head to ease it out of the birth canal during childbirth.
Industry:Parenting
Tracking a fetus's heartbeat and a woman's uterine contractions during labor.
Industry:Parenting
Twins born at the same time but resulting from the fertilization of two different eggs.
Industry:Parenting
This B vitamin, found in prenatal vitamins and green leafy vegetables, prevents anemia and has been shown to reduce incidence of neural tube defects such as spina bifida.
Industry:Parenting
Used to help couples trying to conceive when natural methods fail. Sperm is inserted into the woman's uterus using a catheter.
Industry:Parenting
Used by physicians and midwives as a sign of pregnancy. The area between the cervix and the uterus softens in early pregnancy.
Industry:Parenting
To initiate a pregnancy, which is what happens when a sperm fertilizes an egg.
Industry:Parenting
