Gravida 2 refers to a woman who is

• A. pregnant for the third time
• B. pregnant for the second time
• C. pregnant for the first time
• D. pregnant more than twice

Answer: (B)

Gravidity is the number of pregnancies a woman has had, counting the current one. This helps describe her pregnancy history regardless of how each pregnancy ended. So if a woman has been pregnant once before and is now pregnant again, her gravidity is two. The other scenarios would change that count: a first pregnancy would be gravidity one, and a pregnancy spanning two or more prior pregnancies would be gravidity three or higher.