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You have just delivered a G4P3. She had one LTCS with baby #2 for NRFHR. All other deliveries were SVD at term. She went natural with this birth. It was an uncomplicated pregnancy, with the exception of a partial previa that resolved at her 30 week ultrasound.  As you wait on the placenta, you consider: 

Risk factors for hyperbilirubinemia in full term infants include: 

_____________is a rare obstetric emergency that may occur at the onset of labor to within 30 minutes of placental expulsion. The incidence is 5.1% in 100,000 births in the U.S.

In regard to postpartum complications and distressing symptoms:

Which group of viruses does Ebola belong to and what shape do they have?

In the process of the management of the 41 week pregnant woman, the midwife offers: 

M.J. is 8 weeks PP and calls to state she decided the vaginal ring would be best contraception for her because her sister uses it, and she likes the method. You review her chart. She has NKDA. She does not smoke. She gets migraine headaches with aura, usually when she is very stressed, sometimes on her menstrual cycle, or if she eats cheese. She saw her neurologist last  week, and he told her birth control was a good idea. She is bottle feeding. She has sex once, with a condom. She bled for 5 days last week, and it she thinks it was her menses. You decide:

While driving in to deliver a baby, you are thinking about PPH. You recall that:

The uterus can be palpated at _______ in the first hours after birth