Name_ Date_ Period_

Log on to: .com

Click on Select a Category

Click on Pregnancy Getting Ready for Pregnancy

Read the information. Why is it important to look at your family history before getting pregnant?

Go to the search area in website; type in "smoking during pregnancy." Click on first choice.

Read the information then list 3 ways smoking can harm the unborn baby

1.

2.

3.

What dangers are more likely to occur to the pregnant woman who smokes?

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Click on Select a CategoryPregnancyHealth ProblemsPreterm Labor

Click on the "In this Topic Box" Define Preterm Labor

What six groups of women are at highest risk? (in 2 separate places)

If signs of preterm labor do not go away, what should a woman do?

List 4 of the 6 signs or symptoms of Preterm Labor

1.

2.

3.

4.

List five of the 7 Lifestyles and Environmental Risks that increase the risk of preterm labor.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

List 10 of the 12 medical conditions that increase the risk of preterm labor.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Click on Select a Category PregnancyHealth ProblemsPregnancy Complications

Read through this page and click on each of the issues that could be risky to your pregnancy. Name them and tell how they are harmful to your baby and possibly the mother as well.

Anemia -

High Blood Pressure -

Flu -

Food Poisoning –

Gestational Diabetes –

What are the risk factors in becoming gestational diabetic?

What are the dangers if gestational diabetes is left untreated?

Go up to the search box and type in Ectopic Pregnancy. Click on the first choice.

What is an ectopic pregnancy?

What are symptoms a pregnant woman may have an ectopic pregnancy?

Click on Select a CategoryPregnancyDuring Your Pregnancy Your pregnancy body. Choose 3 different body changes. Describe what happens with these three changes

Click on Select a CategoryPregnancyDuring Your PregnancyEmotional and Life Changes. Click on the "In this topic".

What types of stress may affect pregnancy outcome?

How can a pregnant woman reduce stress?

In reviewing all the information that you have just read, list two items that you want to remember the most.

(If there is still time at the end of class, check out other sections of the March of Dimes website. This is the only website you should be viewing!)