This hormone maintains high concentration of maternal blood calcium to support fetal development.
Thin, watery fluid abundant in proteins and antibodies that is secreted from the mammary glands in the first few days after birth; known as "first milk".
This process shrinks the uterus in the weeks following childbirth.
The process of expelling the placenta after the baby is born.
The foramen ovale is a fetal cardiovascular adaptation that allows blood to travel between these heart chambers.
Process by which humans grow, develop, and age.
The type of enzyme that is secreted by the blastocyst to digest part of the endometrium during implantation.
Fertilization of a secondary oocyte typically takes place in this structure.
Abbreviation for the process which means "fertilization in glass".
Placental estrogens and progesterone maintain this lining during pregnancy.
Substances that, if present in the mother's body during pregnancy, cause congenital malformations of a baby.
Extraembryonic membrane that forms during the second week on the underside of the embryonic disc, forms blood cells in early development, and gives rise to cells that will become sex cells.
During fertilization, two haploid sex cells combine to form a single cell that is ____.
The external genitalia of a fetus can be distinguished as female or male after this week of gestation.
This cord is made of one vein and two arteries, and it attaches the fetus to the placenta.
During labor, this female reproductive structure dilates in order to allow the baby to pass from the uterus into the vagina for birth.
The condition of having a developing offspring in the uterus.