TRIMESTE TASK

1st Accepting the ○ Common reaction

trimester pregnancy is ambivalence

2nd Accepting the baby ○ Begins to imagine

1. Social trimester herself as a
○ Personal experiences mother
(anticipatory
○ Experiences of friends and relatives
role-playing)
2. Cultural
○ Woman feels fetal
○ Beliefs movement
○ Taboos
3rd Preparing for the ○ “Nest-building”
3. Family
trimester baby and activities
○ The family in which the woman was raised
parenthood ○ Role-playing
4. Individual ○ fantasizing
○ Woman’s ability to cope with or adapt to stress
○ Ability to adapt to being a mother
TERMS USED TO DENOTE FETAL GROWTH

1. Ambivalence Ovum Ovulation to fertilization

2. Grief Zygote From fertilization to

3. Narcissism implantation
4. Introversion vc. Extroversion
Embryo Implantation to 5-8 weeks
5. Body image and boundary
6. Stress Fetus 5-8 weeks until term
7. Couvade syndrome
Conceptus Developing embryo or fetus
8. Emotional lability
and placental structures
9. Changes in sexual desire throughput pregnancy
10. Changes in the expectant family

1 MATERNAL AND CHILD NURSING

 1. Pre-embryonic stage Sperm penetrate the zona pellucida by releasing an enzyme
→ First 2 weeks, beginning with fertilization hyaluronidase
→ Fertilization (FERTILIZATION)
○ Union of the ovum and spermatozoon
○ Other terms: conception,
Nuclei of ovum and sperm fuse, chromosomes combine
impregnation, or fecundation
○ Occurs in the outer 3rd of the fallopian
tube (ampulla)
Zygote
○ Functional life of spermatozoon: 48-72
Cleavage begins as zygote travels the uterine tube into the uterus
hours
(BLASTOMERES)
2. Embryonic stage
→ From day 15-8 weeks after conception, or until
the embryo measures 3 cm from crown to rump Morula (16-cell mass) is produced within 3 days, still surrounded by
→ At the end of 8th week all organ systems and zona pellucida
external structures are present, and the embryo
is unmistakably human
3. Fetal stage Morula enters the uterine caivty

→ From approximately 9 weeks -term

→ Fetus less vulnerable to teratogens except for
those affecting CNS functioning
FETAL DEVELOPMENT
○ Cephalocaudal in progression
○ 1st trimester: period of organogenesis
○ 2nd trimester: period of rapid increase in length
○ 3rd trimester: period of continuous growth and
development
INTRAUTERINE FETAL DEVELOPMENT

300 M sperms enter the upper part of vagina, only 3 M enter the
uterus up to ampulla

2 MATERNAL AND CHILD NURSING