Sentences with phrase «maternal uterus»

The birth, as said, was prolonged despite the use of drugs to stimulate the maternal uterus.

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Moms see very dramatic hormonal changes during pregnancy, primarily in estrogen, a female sex hormone that helps grow the uterus and powers maternal behaviors, and progesterone, which helps grow the breasts and softens ligaments, including those of the cervix.

It brilliantly fills the market gap, allowing pregnant women to sleep in the prone position with adequate support to the growing abdomen in a manner that there is no pressure on the uterus, no disruption in the maternal and fetal blood flow, and no discomfort to the mother.

During pregnancy, a surge in maternal estrogen levels can stimulate a female fetus's uterus.

When they experience any side effects of maternal hormones in the uterus, it sheds the outer lining of the uterus walls and this makes them experience a mini-period after delivery.

Maternal anatomy can make a twin pregnancy more likely to be missed (such as a severely obese woman or one with an abnormal fibroid uterus).

«It involves actually physically turning the baby by placing hands on the woman's uterus to almost help the baby do somersaults inside the uterus,» Joanne Stone, MD, director of maternal fetal medicine for the Mount Sinai Health System in New York, previously told Health.

The uterus seems to mirror the behavior, by having the material of the womb, the endometrium, the first maternal embrace an embryo receives, to grow outside of the womb, in an attempt to mother the woman who isn't mothering herself.

In agreement with Santrock (2011), Lavallee et al. (2011) emphasizes that «maternal stress seems to influence... hormonal reactions and blood flow to the uterus influencing the development of the hypothalamic - pituitary adrenal axis in the fetus» (p. 355).