No Condition for a Pregnant Woman

Gaby Rodriguez’s purpose in The Pregnant Project is to inspire readers to think positively and to know their own inner strength despite how others may judge or act.

Then, one morning, she woke up and found herself in a giant bed in a sunny room with plush blue armchairs and a cherry armoire.”

As a young, uneducated teenager, her mother was very poorly equipped to raise a baby. Without knowledge of the human body, pregnancy, child-rearing, or of community resources that may assist with caring for a child, I am unsurprised that Jubilee’s family believed that a diet of mashed potatoes, iced tea, and sugar water was sufficient nutrition. Although Jubilee’s mother lived with her own mother, it is likely that she also did not have the necessary knowledge on how to care for a newborn. This

“If you’re still hungry Lou, I was going to make some pasta and baked potatoes. I found this recipe for low calorie and I’m dying to try it. I think Zayn said he’d try to be home for dinner, but you know how that goes,” Liam pauses to yawn. “I think he’s been really inspired lately. Tommo?” Liam calls out for Louis, only stopping when he sees him dead asleep on the couch. He’s more pregnant then the sky is

The character Gaby Rodriguez in the novel The Pregnancy Project, written by Gaby Rodriguez and Jenna Glatzer, changes throughout the years and understands what it is like to be living in a world of stereotypes. Living in a family filled with past generations of teen pregnancies, Gaby was often told she would end up like her sisters. From other people’s perspectives, this was a family tradition. As her senior project, she faked a pregnancy to get reactions from her friends, family, and the community to see how she would be treated. Gaby went through many hardships to understand what a teen mom has to deal with on a day to day basis.

The rise of 'planned conception' gadgets, such as electronic ovulation calendars and apps to tell a woman when she's at her most fertile, have led to a new kind of mummy one-upmanship. Allie Simms, 29, from Altrincham, Cheshire, (centre) didn't want her childminding business to be badly affected by her pregnancy, so planned to have baby Sienna in September. Wedding photographer Hayley Williams, 33, from Bedfordshire, (right) took pictures at her last event at 38 weeks pregnant. She gave birth to daughter Honor in November at the end of the wedding season. Farmer Fiona Penfold, 36, from Somerset, (left) planned for her second child to be born between February and May so she could work during the summer

A month and six days later, Steven Grant Rogers is born to a grieving Sarah Rogers. He is small and weak for a baby, even for one who came into the world four and a half weeks too early. They keep him in the hospital for a long time, even after he’s out of the incubator and breathing on his own. They tell his mother that he will probably always have health problems, that he will be small and weak not just as a child, but as an adult--if he survives that long. They don’t believe he’ll survive that

Consequently, they are currently sleeping with the door closed and the dogs downstairs, and Sheila is not happy about it. After all, she

Prenatal Health. Neither prenatal health, nor prenatal care, was cited within the case information. Thus, it remains unknown as to what kind of care Maria’s mother received – advanced, adequate, or inadequate. Advanced and adequate prenatal care could support the notion that Maria is medically sound, while inadequate prenatal care could suggest the presence of an underlying health condition. In the case of Maria, inadequate prenatal care could also explain her inability to decipher fact from fiction. As evidenced by her outburst, it could be presumed that Maria is incapable of recognizing this distinction, as she began to cry uncontrollably when her teacher criticized, and coolly corrected, her birth story. The inability to consider another point of view, and instead engage in defensive behavior,

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.

"Amount the wealthy such frequent childbirth was often viewed as desirable, even the birth of a single child could be seen as excessive to a poor or unmarried women unable to care for the baby" ("Women"). Wealthy women had the money to pay for someone to nurse their child and later on when the children get older the women payed someone to take care of their children. Poor women nursed their own children and took care of their own children. The way these poor women got the money to provide the essential needs for their child was by nursing and taking care of wealthy women's children. " Poor women generally nursed their own children for about two years.

VC reported that when she goes to her mom’s home, she sleeps on the couch.

‘When she’s asleep, she can sleep anywhere. Love’s the baby halter, fell off the back of a truck.’

During her pregnancy, Sissy proved herself as an irresponsible mother to be. Close to the time of the baby’s birth, the neighbors found her jumping rope among other children (64). After a “wonderful delivery”, they realized that the newborn never actually breathed life (64). Sissy, filled with sorrow after this news, recognized that she needed to change her ways and developed herself into a more reliable, sensible and trusted woman. Ironically, she began to give a childlike impression on her journey to transforming into a responsible, young lady (65). Consequently, as childlike as Sissy seems, it is understood that maturity is the key to bearing and raising a child. The concept discussed is necessary for a deeper comprehension of the novel

Desiree’s Baby is a short story written in the late 1800’s encompassing the issues of