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Amenorrhoea absence of menstrual periods

Amniotic fluid the ‘bag of waters’ that surrounds your baby in the womb. This usually breaks before or during labour, letting the water rush out via your vagina – the ‘breaking of the waters’.

Antenatal before the birth

Cervix the neck, or opening, of your womb.

Fundal height The distance between the top part of the uterus (the fundus) and the top of the symphysis pubis (the junction between the pubic bones). Midwife measures this to check that the womb is growing as expected in pregnancy, shrinking as expected afterwards.

Oedema swelling during pregnancy.

Postnatal (or postpartum) the period after the baby is born – usually the first 12 weeks.

Quickening First point at which you recognize the baby’s movements in early pregnancy. Can feel like butterflies in your lower abdomen. Or wind.

Trimester three months. Hence pregnancy is divided into 1st, 2nd, 3rd trimesters.