Parenting Word Game

First Day of Class Activity

Postnatal

The period following a

baby’s birth.

Montessori

Substitute care setting where the children are free to

roam around to explore to

learn.

Swaddling

Wrapping a newborn

baby tightly in a blanket.

Folic Acid

Water Soluble B vitamin found in

certain foods and multivitamins.

Linked to reducing neural tube

defects like Spina Bifada.

Zygote

The fertilized

human egg

after conception.

Sphincter

Muscles that help regulate

elimination from the bowels.

M M R

Measles, Mumps, and Rubella

vaccine shot for your child to be protected from those diseases.

Vernix

A thick, white, pasty substance covering babies in the uterus that protects them from the constant

exposure to amniotic fluid.

F. A. S.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Group of physical and mental birth defects that is

the direct result of drinking

alcohol during pregnancy.

Colostrum

Is the substance produced and

released through the

mother’s breast prior to breast milk. It is very high in

anitbodies.

Amniocentesis

A prenatal test performed by withdrawing a sample of the

amniotic fluid from the uterus.