LADYTIMER DAILY QUIZ
Jul 18, 2025
Your baby should adjust to breastfeeding immediately.
Each baby adjusts to breastfeeding differently, just as each mom’s breasts release milk differently. Light coughing or sputtering, especially just when starting out to breastfeed, is normal, and just a sign that your baby is adjusting to the process and the flow of the milk.
Which organ works to transfer nutrients from maternal blood to fetal blood during pregnancy?
The placenta is responsible for working as a trading post between the mother’s and the baby’s blood supply. Small blood vessels carrying the fetal blood run through the placenta, which is full of maternal blood. Nutrients and oxygen from the mother’s blood are transferred to the fetal blood, while waste products are transferred from the fetal blood to the maternal blood, without the two blood supplies mixing.
What does folic acid help prevent?
A)
Low birth weight for the child
B)
Defects of the brain and spinal cord
C)
Weight gain for the mother
D)
Defects of hands and feet
Folic acid helps prevent neural tube defects (NTDs)—serious birth defects of the spinal cord (such as spina bifida) and the brain (such as anencephaly).
Infertility in men can be caused by retrograde ejaculation, semen that enters the bladder instead of exiting from the penis.
Retrograde ejaculation may cause infertility. However, semen can often be removed from the bladder and used during assistive reproductive techniques to achieve a pregnancy.
Uterine fibroids are found in 50% of infertile women.
Fibroids can contribute to infertility and are found in 5% to 10% of infertile women.
If you are already pregnant, you may stop the pregnancy by using emergency contraception.
Emergency birth control is used to help keep a woman from getting pregnant after she has had sex without using birth control or if the birth control method failed. If you are already pregnant, emergency contraception will not work.
