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Maternal Science and Neonatal Lexicon
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  • 1. Crucial period for mother-infant emotional connection
  • 2. Wax-like substance coating newborn skin
  • 3. Silicone aid to improve infant latch during feeding
  • 4. Relating to the breast or nipples
  • 5. Postnatal period of uterine recovery
  • 6. Pertaining to the organ linking mother and fetus
  • 7. Process initiating milk secretion post childbirth
  • 8. Hormone stimulating milk production in new mothers
  • 10. Inflammation sometimes affecting new mother’s nursing ability
  • 17. Natural infant nutrition and immune defense process
  • 18. Joint stiffness sometimes causing childbirth complications
  • 19. State encompassing responsibilities beginning with birth
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  • 9. Breast structure where milk pools pre-lactation
  • 11. Ducts that carry milk from gland to nipple
  • 12. Surgical incision to enlarge birth canal
  • 13. Practice of assisting childbirth outside hospital
  • 14. Area between vulva and anus, often involved in delivery
  • 15. Act of providing care and nourishment to infant
  • 16. Medical specialty managing pregnancy and delivery
  • 20. Soft spot on infant’s skull allowing passage through birth canal

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