Understand development from conception to end of gestation
In this tutorial you will learn:
- The checks made on expectant mothers
- Some of the problems a mother may experience during pregnancy
- Some of the problems a baby may experience pre-birth
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Laser Learning reading text ‘Pregnancy'
- 'Ultrasound variants' from the Baby Centre website.
- ‘Fetal development week by week’ webpage from the Baby Centre website
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Click on the icon to the left to access this video on 'Inside pregnanacy: Girl or Boy' from the Baby Centre website which looks at the developing baby.
- Click on the icon on the left to access this second video on the 'What will happen at my first pregnancy scan?', also from the Baby Centre website.
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click on the icon on the left to the National Health Service (NHS) web page on antenatal care, which looks at appointments and what will happen at them.
- Click on the link to read the article on ‘Your antenatal appointments’ from the Baby Centre website.
- Click on the link to read the articles and look at the diagrams about fertilisation.
- Click on the icon to the left to the NHS webpages giving more details about Spina Bifida, which is a fault in the development of the spine and spinal column which leaves a gap in the spine.
- Click on the link to the website of Diabetes UK to find out more information of diabetes in pregnancy, known as gestational diabetes.
- The NHS website gives more information about 'Screening for Down's syndrome, Edwards' syndrome and Patau's syndrome'.
- Click on the link to the Down’s Syndrome Association which gives information and support on all aspects of living with Down’s syndrome to all who need it.
- Extended Learning
- Think And Challenge
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