NURSING 3TT3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 33-35: Postpartum Bleeding, Lochia, Postpartum Depression
8 Apr 2017
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Chapter 35: postpartum family adaptation and nursing assessment. Involution describe the rapid reduction in the size of uterus and its return to a condition similar to its non-pregnant state may seem larger than normal. Weight of uterus decreases from 1000g in immediate post-partum period to 500g at the end of the first week. Reaches 300g by the end of the second week. Finally terminating involution process with a weight of 100g or less. Postpartum period period during which the woman readjusts, physically and psychologically from pregnancy to birth beginning right after birth until body has returned to near non-pregnant state (about. Nursing assessments are based on understanding of normal anatomic and physiologic processes of the puerperium involve repro and other systems. Outermost layer becomes necrotic and is sloughed off in lochia. Layer closest to myometrium contains the fundi of the uterine endometrial glands ( lay foundation for new endometrium)
