Lauren Prezioso: A Brief Summary And Analysis

Amber is an 18 year old woman who has found she is feeling sick and unusual. She comes to find out that she is pregnant and consults her doctor. Being concerned of her student status and what her parents might think are her biggest fears. The fetus growing inside her is almost 11 weeks and has her own story from the inside. Mentioning all of the growth that has occurred and the development milestones she has reached, the fetus is concerned of her own well being. The doctor offers Amber the options of abortion and adoption, and then the heart beat will be heard. It is unclear what Amber’s choice is in the end.

Body modifications are every individual’s choice and no one should have the right to change that. In many cases, people get tattoos and piercing because their religion requires them to, they might want to express their individuality and uniqueness and some other because they want to follow up a fashion or pop culture. Dress codes should be endorsed to help students not to victimize them in any way. In the case of Ariana Iacono, a young girl from North Carolina who was suspended from school because she wore a piercing to school violating the school dress code. She wore the piercing because it was part of her religion and due to this she had to missed class and go to court to fight for her rights. Schools are unfair when they have strict dress

Andrea Yates had battled with postpartum depression for years and on June 20, 2001, she drowned all five children in the bathtub of her home. Ultimately the underlining cause of her actions was caused by postpartum psychosis that was triggered by Andrea’s improper use of her medication, failure to adhere to her doctor’s advice after treatment, and her lack of knowledge of coping techniques commonly used by women who suffer from postpartum depression. Postpartum depression can take up to a year after the birth of a child before the mother would even notice the signs of depression and in Yates’s case if left untreated can have a tragic affect on the person and

Lauren Rivera continues to look at different forms in which individuals get differentiated when it comes to getting the job. She specifically looked at the whole hiring decisions. When it comes to hiring employees, studies have shown the weight of the interview process is relied more heavily than the resume. Meeting the candidates becomes important because there are other factors that arises. Factors such as an increases in the quantity of applications and the fact that resumes do not show the candidate's ability on job performance.

She walks into the living room where all her family was sitting, and they all look at her and ask “what’s the news?”. She was very disappointed in herself she thought how could she let it happen? she was too young at 16, she didn’t have a job, and she didn’t even know if the father was going to be there for her. The family looked concerned as she was about to burst into tears, her eyes filled with sadness, and then she said “I'm pregnant”. They all looked at her in disappointment, they thought she was going to be the one to pursue her dreams of becoming a nurse, to actually have a degree, but even though they were disappointed in her they knew that they had to help her raise the baby. She felt upset she didn’t know how she was going to do it while still going to school, she still had two more years ahead, and she was due late May. Even though she had her family who was supporting her she still had to take responsibility for her actions, she had decided that she would have to drop out of school, and start working to take care of her upcoming baby.

It takes around nine months for a baby to develop inside a womb; it only takes one quick moment to change a life forever. There are multiple different actions that can hurt a pregnancy; unprotected sex, alcohol and drug abuse, and any heredity induced diseases. In the two scenarios I am working with, two women, Ronnette Jones and Tami Travis experienced drastic changes to their life and their future life. With the help of friends and family, Ronnette and Tami persevered and became the loving mothers they are today.

There are approximately 353,000 children born every day. A handful of these children are born and end up leaving prodigious legacies behind... but what about the rest? Imagine… it's 2:54 in the morning and for some this would be the greatest time in their life, being that their child will be born into the world. For Jess, a soon-to-be parent,knows that having a baby will wipe away her savings in the blink of an eye. With the father of the child nowhere to be found, what kind of life would this newborn baby and mother have? What would their quality of life be? Jess knows she could give up the baby, but the thought of knowing her child is living in a world without her takes as much away from her as keeping the child would. If the clock could

It was an ordinary winter day in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts. As people headed to work and school they looked forward to the adventures the weekend would bring the next day. However, not so far away, Henry Rosario and his wife, Wendy Contreras, waited anxiously in their apartment knowing that the moment that would change their lives forever was near. “As my first daughter it was very painful, scary, and anxious” (Contreras interview). After waiting for what seemed like forever, they decided to go to Salem Hospital. Once they arrived, however, they were told by the doctor that she was not was not ready to deliver yet and was sent back home. At home, Wendy paced around the living room in agony waiting for the moment to come so she could get

Jane was left anonymously at an orphanage in Brisbane in 1951. The girl grew up having no clue of her parents' identities. It was on May the fifth 1969 that she got drunk and slept with an drunk, older man. Unfortunately for Jane, she got pregnant and her partner was anything but inclined to stick around. Despite her friends advice, Jane refused to get an abortion. She had always been stubborn. She probably would have made a decent parent, but disaster struck again for our Jane. A serious of complications occurred in the delivery room of a grotesque nature. The birth was a long and painful one. By the end of it Jane was utterly sleep deprived, and it was hardly her fault that the baby was lost. She handed it to a man dressed in doctors' clothes – the full get up. The man vanished, and despite the polices best efforts, was never tracked down.

Caroline West had been abandoned three days after her birth, by some woman she didn't know, but that would all change today. After months of investigating and digging through hospital documents she had found the woman who was her mother: It had taken forever to sift through all the papers. But that hadn't deterred her -- after all how many pregnant women could leave a hospital without a child and not have it written down somewhere? Three to be precise, well at least on that Halloween night there had only been three. One woman had given birth to a boy, so that excluded her immediately. The second woman had been forced to give birth to her stillborn daughter and she was alive so that

On the day of November 30,2000, Jennifer and Travis Vineyard’s second son, Hayden Matthew, was born inside of a room at the University of Tennessee Hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was born in November, but my parents were expecting me to be born in January of 2001, making me a premature. I was very small as a baby with only being 3 pounds and 15 ounces. I was the smallest baby in my family. As a baby I was hard to handle with not being able to breath on my own, my family was being hopeful that I would survive, the doctors weren’t. And with a little bit of praying, I was able to start breathing on my own.

Louise was a nulliparous woman in her thirties who had no pregnancy complications and nothing sinister in her medical history, so she was classed as “low risk” and she was 7 days over her estimated due date. Louise came on to the delivery suite and my mentor and I were looking after her throughout her labour, her partner was away at work so Louise only had us for support.

In 2001, Andrea Yates, a Texas mother, was accused of drowning her five children, (aged seven, five, three, two, and six months) in her bathtub. The idea of a mother drowning all of her children puzzled the nation. Her attorney argued that it was Andrea Yates' untreated postpartum depression, which evolved into postpartum psychosis that caused her horrific actions (1) . He also argued that Andrea Yates suffered from postpartum depression after the birth of her fourth child, and that she attempted suicide twice for this very disorder ((1)). What is postpartum depression, and how can it cause a mother to harm her very own children, altering her behavior towards her children in a negative way? One in ten women

So much catastrophe fall upon Corinne that she never faced in her life, she was so much tangled in a disaster plight that her life had become unpredictable. (page 230) “My eyes are yellow, and my face has gone a funny colour. She wants to know what I’ve eaten, but I’ve hardly had anything but water for several days. Napirais crying and wants to be fed, but I can’t manage. I can’t even hold her because I can’t sit up”. Basically she wasn’t getting enough food for weeks that resulted in her illusion’s. As Africa is a poor country they don’t have much medical care for the people. Corrine faces many issues with her pregnancy due to her health, she wasn’t getting the supplement that she needed to survive. (page 208) “too thin and weak for the eight months, and if I don’t get proper nourishment, there’s a real danger that I might die from the effort and loss of blood involved in giving birth. They don’t have any oxygen equipment or incubators for the baby. Also they won’t use any painkillers for the simple reason that they do not have any”. These factors explain that there are life and death matter every day, not only her own life was in danger now even her child life was at stake too, another

Johanna Preciado was like most 13 year old girls. She was a bit boy crazy, she wore braces, and she was insecure about her body. She also struggled with depression and ADD, but was described as a generally happy girl who enjoyed spending time with friends and family. When Johanna was entering eighth grade and her parents enrolled her in a private school, hoping that the policy of uniforms and no makeup would help her fit in. At around the same time, Johanna became active on Instagram, under the strict supervision of her mother. One day, an older boy named Chris sent Johanna a message through Instagram and they became online friends. Chris was attractive and Johanna was excited to receive attention from a boy, although she never met