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… Alcohol Effects on a Fetus On this page: What effect does alcohol have on a fetus? A woman who drinks alcohol while she is pregnant may harm her developing baby (fetus). Alcohol can pass from the mother's blood into the …
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… . Find out whether a chromosome defect is present in a fetus . Karyotyping also may be done to find out whether chromosomal problems may have caused a fetus to be stillborn. Find out the cause of a baby's birth … a blood sample, usually from an arm. Cell sample from a fetus For this type of test, cells are collected from the …
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… reflected sound waves. It produces a picture of the baby (fetus), the organ that supports the fetus ( placenta ), and the liquid that surrounds the fetus ( amniotic fluid ). The picture is displayed on a TV …
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… the facts Your options Carry a pregnancy with three or more fetuses. Have multifetal pregnancy reduction. This procedure reduces the number of fetuses. This information is for women who are pregnant with three or more fetuses. It's also for their partners. Key points to …
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… intrauterine transfusion provides blood to an Rh-positive fetus when fetal red blood cells are being destroyed by the … mother's immune system. This treatment is meant to keep the fetus healthy until the baby is mature enough to be … needed to allow the mother's sedatives to wear off. If the fetus was given medicine to prevent movement, it may be …
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… is a test to look at the fluid that surrounds your baby ( fetus ) in the uterus . Amniotic fluid has cells and other … substances that can give clues about the health of your fetus. For this test, a needle is put gently through your … Amniocentesis is often done around week 16 to see if a fetus has certain genetic conditions. It can also tell the …
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… of fetal blood directly from the umbilical cord or fetus. The fetal blood is tested for signs of anemia and … you are Rh-sensitized and you are carrying an Rh-positive fetus, your immune system can attack the fetus's red blood cells. FBS is used to look at a fetus's …
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… that the mother has not developed antibodies against the fetus's blood. A negative Coombs test indicates that the fetus is not presently in danger from problems relating to … a positive Coombs test only indicates that an Rh-positive fetus has a possibility of being harmed. A positive test …
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… (AFP). AFP is made in the liver of an unborn baby (fetus). Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). This hormone is … tube defects, such as spina bifida, in up to 80 out of 100 fetuses who have it. It finds anencephaly in about 95 out of 100 fetuses. The test misses spina bifida in at least 20 out of …
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… Overview By the end of a pregnancy, a fetus is typically positioned head-down (vertex), ready to pass head first through the birth canal. Sometimes a fetus is in a bottom-down, or breech , position as the due … Postural management is a way of attempting to turn a fetus from a breech to a vertex position by lying or sitting …
