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

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:

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

Three key aspects in the mutual relationship between parents and newborns (according to Varney’s Midwifery) include all of the following except:

Regarding the third stage of labor:

The ________ layer of the uterine decidua remains intact and forms the new endometrium

As exercise intensity continually increases during a graded exercise test, there will come a point where lactate rises non-linearly which is known as the lactate threshold. Explain what the likely cause of this dramatic increase in lactate.  

Engorgement:

Regarding the previous question, oxygen consumption will still elevated after exercise in complete. Name at least two things this excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC) is used for.