Pregnancy : A Woman 's Womb

I read The Pregnancy Project by Gaby Rodriguez. The book is about how Gaby overcame stereotypes and expectations put on her when she faked her pregnancy for a senior project as a social experiment to see how her peers would react. I enjoyed reading this book because Gaby wrote in such a way that I would find myself thinking of past experiences that could relate with what she was talking about. After I read, “One of the best things a role model can do is show how to get through the tough times and live a good life despite setbacks and hardships, because nobody gets through this life without scars along the way.” (Rodriguez 206), a lot of thoughts came to mind. One of the first thoughts came to my mind was my role model and how even though he went through a lot of tough times he changed his attitude and lives a good life. I also thought about myself and how even though I might me having the worst day I should always be the best that

They teach their fetuses about abundances, scarcity, safety, and harm. Annie argued that learning is an essential quality of life that begins way before we can imagine. It is important to understand the way mothers contribute to the learning of the fetus before they’re even

Alexandra Tsiaras came up with a phenomenal way of describing conception to birth in his interview he did for Ted Talk. There were several things and little details that I truthfully did not know happened so fast during a woman’s pregnancy. It amazes me how people can go through with abortion after watching a video like Conception to Birth. Alexandra Tsiara’s visuals on conception to birth show a whole new outline of how fast a baby becomes a human, and that makes it that much more precious.

Robin Yates’s paper, “Pregnancy and Childbirth, The 1800’s vs. Now: What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting,” was filled with many clear points on the advancement of labor and medicine since the 1800s. This essay was filled with interesting and grabbing facts; however, the structure of the essay needs more support.

I was fascinated to understand how human being was growing inside me. However, I also know that this isn't the case for everyone. Some women have tough pregnancies and don't enjoy the ride. They are on countdown for baby to enter the world. Medical complications and body confidence can have a real effect on women through pregnancy, it does effect us all differently.

Christopher Gacek, author of Conceiving “Pregnancy”, starts by refuting Rachel Gold’s definition of ‘pregnancy’. Gacek talks about how since the 1960s, there has been the lack of common ground that people can agree to be the beginning of pregnancy for a woman; the two opposing sides argue that pregnancy begins either at fertilization, fusion of sperm and egg to form a new zygote, or at implantation, when the zygote implants itself into the lining of the woman’s uterus, which happens roughly a week after fertilization. The disputing has not allowed for clear definition for pregnancy to be fully developed. Gacek further writes the fact that the only reason why Rachel Gold is using her definition of pregnancy, is because it comes from the

The purpose of this study is the research is to figure out what type of treatment would be best for prenatal pregnant women with substance abuse, “the cost of prenatal substance use highlights the need for improved screening, referral, and treatment of pregnant women” (E. Sahker Differences in successful treatment completion among pregnant and non-pregnant American women) and the outcome. Thirty substance abuse pregnant women participate in the study. Why pregnant women that use a substance abuse do not always seek treatment? The study will be conduct in a treatment facility or in a therapy style environment. The measurement was before admission and after completion of treatment. The age of the women that would be participate in the study.

In Frankenstein, the need to abnegate the maternal and fear of the womb seems to be an inherent, even subconscious, impetus behind the scientist’s choices. Matrophobia is evident throughout the Gothic where the maternal protector is usually absent; either deceased like Madame St. Aubert in The Mysteries of Udolpho or imprisoned like Louisa Bernini in A Sicilian Romance. The mothers that continue to be present in the narrative are usually oppressed, such as Hippolita in The Castle of Otranto, or deviant, as Laurina is in Zofloya, where she is ‘the primary cause’ of all the misfortune in the novel (Dacre 246). Frankenstein seems to share this desire to eliminate the maternal but disguises his impulses under the guise of rational thought and logic. For example, when Frankenstein decides not to fulfill his promise of making a companion female monster, he presents this as a rationalised decision, weighing up whether he has ‘a right’ to ‘inflict this curse’ upon humanity (174). However, a closer analysis of his reasoning reveals that Frankenstein is primarily preoccupied with the monstrous fertility of a female creature since, through her, ‘a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth’ (174). We might recall that when creating his male progeny, Frankenstein was not afraid of a ‘race’ or ‘new species’ since he was still the absolute creator (80). Although the creature has not mentioned offspring, Frankenstein does not have the actual power of the divine to restrict

In this chapter it talks about the development of how a fetus changes into a baby. The first part of the chapter starts out by talking about how the zygote divides into the two cells. With another 36 hours the zygote becomes 32 cells. This time period of conception is call germinal stage. In the first few days in the germinal stage the cell mass takes the form of a fluid-filled ball called a blastocyst. The dividing cells cell moves through the fallopian tube, then they go throw to the uterus. This chapter also talks about how although humans are not chickens their babies are formed in the same way. Like in a chickens egg the yoke develops into a baby chicken, and in a human the embryo becomes a fetus. Then the chapter starts to talk about the different things bleeding while being pregnant can mean. Although a majority of people believe that if a woman bleeds while pregnant mans that she has had a miscarriage, it can mean many of different things. Miscarriages can be caused by many different things, and can cause many different types of problems. Such as a high risk of having anxiety and it also puts relationships at a higher percentage of ending. One third of percent end in a miscarriage. Miscarriages happed within the first three months of pregnancy. Woman who are over the age of thirty are more likely to have a miscarriage. Miscarriages can be cause from many things such as chromosomal problems, substance use, or hormonal problems. The next thing that this chapter

Page 1 Child Growth and Development: "Life's Greatest Miracle" Paragraph In the video Life's Greatest Miracle, I was informed about how children are conceived, how they develop in the mothers body, and how amazing child birth can be. In the beginning it takes you through the steps of how sperm travels as for looking for an egg to fertilize. Although, in just one teaspoon of sperm there can be over 300 million sperm cells, only around 40% of them are usable. The other 60% can be deformed such as having two tales. The sperm can reach the Fallopian tube within 30 minutes, but it can be a 2 day swim just for sperm to reach an accepting egg. After the sperm that was strong enough to make it through the rough travel have met up with an egg, they

According to Carmen Shalev (1989) and John Robertson (1994), both of them libertarians and progressives, women are free to do whatever they want to do and feel is proper to do with their wombs and reproductive capacity. Shalev goes further and, at least once in her famous book ‘Birth Power’, she states that a woman holds the right to make a profit from her womb just as any other person holds the same right to obtain benefits from the private property she has accumulated throughout her life. I object to this argument due to its lack of clarity. It seems that, in Shalev’s view, women are a certain type of owners of ‘reproductive’ property that is just waiting to be exploited for profit purposes. Shalev points this out in the name of women’s power to decide the best way to make money.

As I was reading Prenatal Maternal Speech Influences Newborns’ Perception of Speech Sounds I became interested in the hypothesis that states “newborns auditory preferences are influenced by prenatal experience with their mothers’ speech and heartbeats” which makes a lot of sense. We grow and develop in our mother’s womb and studies show that we prefer our mother’s voices to other females and males. This experiment was pretty interesting, but also a bit confusing at the same time. I wasn’t aware of how much goes into a simple experiment like this one. One of the parts of the experiment that I found the most interesting is that hearing for the fetus’s develop in the third trimester of a pregnancy, at the end of this study it was determined that

Did you know that our bodies want to make babies? Did you also know that our bodies are actually really good at it?, the answer is that yes our bodies want to make babies and yes we are good at it, we are so good at it that about 365,000 new babies are produced everyday, thats a lot isn’t it!, however creating a new human being is not easy, it is actually a process that takes time.Think about it you have to build a brand new body with one hundred trillion cells, thats a lot!.But how do you do this?

In chapter 14 we learn all about the journey of pregnancy. It is crucial for the expecting mother to be consuming nutrient filled food in order for the pregnancy to be healthy and successful. During the 2nd and 3rd trimester of pregnancy, women should be consuming 350-450 calories more than she would consume if she wasn’t pregnant. Concerns occur when there is drug use or substance abuse during pregnancy. A nutritional concern of pregnancy is simply getting enough calories an nutrients. For a mother of low socioeconomic status, it is difficult for her to purchase vitamin and mineral rich foods due to her budget. Physical activity during pregnancy is encouraged because it can prevent presentational l diabetes and other health concerns. In

In a case where a pregnant woman is involved in a crash or an accident which leaves her brain dead, it is rare that her wishes are known involving what she would want in this type of situation. If the mother 's wishes are unknown, the care plan would then be left to the family to decide. It should be the family’s choice on whether or not to keep the mother on life support or not until the baby can be delivered. If the hospital does not allow the family to make this choice, it may make the situation worse, especially if they both do not choose the same method of action. When the family is considering their options, they should take into consideration the baby 's chance of survival. If the mother becomes brain dead when the baby is 24