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Indoor Exercise Options

Some Ideas to Get Moving indoors or when the weather is not great!  Find indoor activities to do in the winter, such as exercising to a workout video, dancing, or using a hula hoop.  If you can’t set aside one block of time, do short activities throughout the day, such as three 10-minute walks.  Vary [...]

Family Habit Inventory

This inventory will give a general idea of your family’s typical eating and physical activity habits. 1) Read each statement and think about your family’s eating and physical activity habits. 2) Circle the words that best describe your family’s habits over the past few weeks. 3) After completing the Inventory, check your Habit Inventory score. [...]

Healthy Lifestyles

  5-3-2-1-Nearly None   “Living Healthy – it’s not a diet, it’s a lifestyle!”   Kids born today are the first generation in more than a hundred years not expected to live longer than their parents.  The causes for this are many, but most of them boil down to healthy lifestyle choices, which means we [...]

Question Board

This is a place to post general questions to which Connie will reply.   Use the Comments to ask your question, and all efforts will be made to respond within 72 hours.

Orientation to Maternal Child Health

orientation-cases2  For orientation, we want to review normal labor and delivery with you as well as some common obstetrical emergencies, just to remind you of what you already knowand will review several cases with you to facilitate this. Sarah Teaching notes Some useful videos of normal childbirth: Animation of the cardinal movements http://www.videosift.com/video/Normal-Vaginal-Birth-3D-animation A gently [...]

Angela

34 yo G4P3 at 39 6/7 weeks, pregnancy complicated by gestational diabetes, controlled with glyburide.  EFW 9 lbs. Presents in active labor, progresses well to complete at 2230. Pushes x 45 minutes: Any special preparation you want before delivery? * At delivery, head comes out to eyebrows and then perineum has to be  “milked” down [...]

Melissa

 Melissa is a 27 yo G2P1 at 40 1/2 weeks who presents at 4 am in active labor, 5 cm dilated, 80% effaced, -1 station, leaking clear fluid.     GBS neg. 120/62, P84, Afeb 4 am fhr At 7:30 am she remains unchanged, but too painful to go home. 7:30 am  fhr Options? At 10 am,   you get [...]

Sarah

  Sarah is a 20 yo G1 P0 at 38 weeks with an uncomplicated pregnancy who presents at midnight with uterine contractions x 6 hours, no leaking fluid, uc’s now q5 minutes. Cervix is FT, 30% effaced, -2 sta  fhr  Management?    11 am, she is 4 cm, 90% effaced, -1, 120/70, Afeb    11 am [...]

Sarah’s outcome

  7 lb 4 ounces, Apgars 8 at one minute, 9 at 5 minutes

Miscarriage

Having your pregnancy end in a miscarriage can be very sad. If you do have a miscarriage, it is unlikely that you did anything to cause it. There is a good chance that you will be able to have a baby the next time you try. What is a miscarriage? A miscarriage is the loss [...]