While caring for a client in labor the nurse determines that the baby's head has internally rotated. The client's spouse asks about other positional changes that will occur during the labor and birth
How should the nurse describe the rest of the cardinal movements for a baby in a vertex presentation? 1. Expulsion, external rotation, and restitution
2. Restitution, flexion, external rotation, and expulsion
3. Extension, restitution, external rotation, and expulsion
4. Flexion, extension, restitution, external rotation, and expulsion
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Explanation:
1. The fetus changes position in the following order: descent, engagement, flexion, internal rotation, extension, restitution, external rotation, and expulsion.
2. The fetus changes position in the following order: descent, engagement, flexion, internal rotation, extension, restitution, external rotation, and expulsion.
3. The fetus changes position in the following order: descent, engagement, flexion, internal rotation, extension, restitution, external rotation, and expulsion.
4. The fetus changes position in the following order: descent, engagement, flexion, internal rotation, extension, restitution, external rotation, and expulsion.
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