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    This document summarizes various high-risk conditions that can occur during pregnancy including gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, placental abnormalities, and preterm labor. It also defines normal gestation periods and describes the labor and birth process. Key conditions discussed are gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, placental previa, placental abruption, and pregnancy-induced hypertension. Normal pregnancy is between 37-40 weeks while preterm is less than 37 weeks and post-term is more than 40 weeks.

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    This document summarizes various high-risk conditions that can occur during pregnancy including gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, placental abnormalities, and preterm labor. It also defines normal gestation periods and describes the labor and birth process. Key conditions discussed are gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, placental previa, placental abruption, and pregnancy-induced hypertension. Normal pregnancy is between 37-40 weeks while preterm is less than 37 weeks and post-term is more than 40 weeks.

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    This document summarizes various high-risk conditions that can occur during pregnancy including gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, placental abnormalities, and preterm labor. It also defines normal gestation periods and describes the labor and birth process. Key conditions discussed are gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, placental previa, placental abruption, and pregnancy-induced hypertension. Normal pregnancy is between 37-40 weeks while preterm is less than 37 weeks and post-term is more than 40 weeks.

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    High risk Prenatal Client 20th week of pregnancy and the

    end of the first week after delivery.


    Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) - can cause proteinuria edema.
    - is defined as any degree of glucose
    intolerance with onset or first OGTT - oral glucose tolerance test.
    recognition during pregnancy
    Rh incompatibility
    Post-term pregnancy - is a condition that develops when a
    - is defined as pregnancy that has pregnant woman has Rh-negative
    extended to or beyond 42 weeks of blood and the baby in her womb
    gestation (294 days), or estimated has Rh-positive blood.
    date of delivery (EDD) + 14 days.
    - more than 40 weeks. Gestational Conditions such as:
    - can cause macrocephaly.
    Hyperemesis Gravidarum
    Hyperglycemia in Diabetes Mellitus - morning sickness.
    - In people who have diabetes, - increasing human chorionic
    glucose tends to build up in the gonadotropin (HCG).
    bloodstream. This condition is
    called hyperglycemia. It may reach Ectopic Pregnancy
    dangerously high levels if it is not - most often occurs in a fallopian
    treated properly. tube.

    Hypertension Gestational Trophoblastic disease (GTD)


    - The cause of gestational - a group of rare diseases in which
    hypertension is unknown. abnormal trophoblast cells grow
    - Eating a balanced diet and keeping inside the uterus after conception.
    your salt intake low can help to
    reduce blood pressure. Hydatidiform mole (H Mole) is the most
    common type of GTD.
    Pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH)
    - is hypertension that occurs after Incompetent cervix
    20 weeks of gestation in women - happens when weak cervical tissue
    with previously normal blood causes or plays a part in a
    pressure. premature birth or the loss of a
    healthy pregnancy.
    Protein - Albumin - Edema - Hypertension
    Spontaneous Abortion
    Hypertension can cause - is pregnancy loss before 20 weeks
    - Eclampsia gestation.
    - Pre-eclampsia
    Placenta Previa
    Eclampsia -a condition in which the placenta lies
    - is the development of convulsive very low in the uterus and covers all or
    seizures or coma without other part of the opening to the cervical
    causes during that same time opening that sits at the top of the vagina.
    frame. Placenta previa happens in about 1 in 200
    - can cause cerebral edema. pregnancies.
    - it can lower your oxygen.
    Pre-eclampsia Placental abruption
    - is development of high blood - means the placenta has detached
    pressure, swelling or high levels of from the wall of the uterus, either
    albumin in the urine between the partly or totally.
    Premature rupture of membranes
    (PROM)
    - is the rupture of gestational
    membranes prior to the onset of
    labor.

    Pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH)


    - is defined as systolic blood
    pressure (SBP) >140 mmHg and
    diastolic blood pressure (DBP) >90
    mmHg.

    .
    1st Trimester
    - Hyperemesis Gravidarum,
    Spontaneous Abortion and Ectopic
    pregnancy.

    2nd Trimester
    - Hydatidiform mole (H Mole), and
    Incompetent cervix.

    3rd Trimester
    - Placenta previa, Placental
    abruption, Premature rupture of
    membranes (PROM) and
    Pregnancy-induced hypertension
    (PIH).

    Pre-term is less than 37 weeks.

    Normal is between 37 - 40 weeks.

    Post term is more than 40 weeks.

    Labor and Birth Process


    5P’s
    Passenger (fetus)
    Position (maternal)
    Passageway (the pelvis and maternal soft
    parts)
    Power (uterine contractions)
    Psyche (maternal psychological status)

    SIDS - sudden infant death syndrome.

    APGAR
    A - appearance.
    P - pulse.
    G - grimace.
    A - activity.
    R - respiration

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