Pregnancy Restrictions

States in 1991, in an effort to inform parents that they should place their infant on their back when sleeping. Many parents, mainly among minority families, are still unaware of this prevention step. Other preventive measures include: breast feeding, not smoking during and after pregnancies, and parents should not to sleep with their infants.

In 1997, anthropologist James Mckenna and his colleagues conducted a study in a sleep laboratory at the University of California's Irvine School of Medicine. The study was to observed thirty-five nursing mother- infant pair sleeping together as well as apart for three consecutive nights. The infants were between eleven to fifteen weeks old. Twenty of the infants had been co sleeping since birth and the other fifteen had been independent sleepers. To observe they used many tools such as polygraph to record mother and infants heart rate, breathing rhythms, body temperature, the nursing cycles and even monitored their brain waves all of this along with watching their test subjects simultaneously on an infrared video monitor. What they found was quite unique, the infant and mother were highly responsive to each other and their movements. The infant and mother changed position of sleeping to face each other. They wake more frequently to nurse, and about twice as much as an independent sleeper and nurse three times longer but still get more sleep co sleeping than independent sleepers,

Spousal involvement in the delivery of a child is limited. A nurse may feel that the husband is showing no spousal support or compassion to his wife. During the delivery the nurse can encourage him to give his wife support verbally, but the nurse must understand according to the Jewish laws, if a woman is unclean with mucous discharge, bloody show, or amniotic fluid. The husband may exit the room as he is not allowed stay in the room with his wife while she is being examined, unless she is fully covered and will not be exposed to him. To be considered clean again after childbirth or menstruation , the women must go to a ritual bath called the " Mikveh".

Proceeding to the next step, comes side/stomach position. For this position, you will lay the baby on his/her stomach/side on either in your arms, lap, or your shoulder. Make sure that their arms are to their side. Usually doctors will tell you to lay them on their back to reduce the risk of SIDS, but since your newborn wants to feel like they are in the womb again, it is ok to lay them on their side/stomach. Just make sure that you turn them to their back once they fall asleep.

Bed-rest has been used as a treatment since the 19the century and its effects were seen in writing as early as 1892 in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In the article The Bed-Rest Hoax by Alexandra Kleeman she goes to point out how bed rest is negatively affecting patients who are prescribed it because of inactivity. While Kleeman points out many flaws in why bed-rest should be put to rest many researchers still believe that bed-rest can have astounding effects on pregnant women. Although in Kleeman’s article she tested out bed-rest on her own healthy body it is more often prescribed to pregnant women at this day in age to help with pregnancy. Because of its many benefits such as normalizing the body and increasing blood flow to the placenta bed rest is overall good for pregnant women.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE, 2007) Intrapartum guidelines state that during the first stage of labour women should be encouraged to adopt the position they feel most comfortable in. This is what the student was trying to encourage even though her mentor did not.There are various positions the woman can adopt in labour which are generally grouped into upright and recumbent. The positions classed as upright are; standing, walking, kneeling, squatting, on all fours and sitting, and the recumbent position could include; supine, lithotomy, semi-recumbent or side lying (Johnson and Taylor, 2011). The upright position appeared to be more beneficial in Sarah’s case and the author wants to determine if this is always the case. It is evident that sometimes there will be constraints such as continuous fetal monitoring but it is important that the midwife does

     When a woman learns that she is pregnant she tells her husband whom then goes and builds her a place for her last three months of pregnancy. Men were not allowed to be present at the birth of a child unless he was a priest who was invited to pray over the mother while she was in

Infant co-sleeping is a highly controversial topic of debate in our society. There are many valid reasons as to why infant co-sleeping is an appropriate practice based upon many different things, some to include research, culture and personal opinion. And there are just as many reasons to recede that claim and support that co-sleeping is detrimental to the health and well-being of an infant. Before the following research, as outlined in this paper, my personal opinion was based on the fact that I practiced co-sleeping with my son many years ago, back when co-sleeping was not such an issue. I felt comfortable with co-sleeping and supported co-sleeping. The reasoning behind this could have been the age factor as a teen mother, my cultural beliefs and also the comfort of knowing my child was close and I could access him easily if needed. As I learned more about co-sleeping and began my work in the field of ECE, I was encouraged to support the “Back to Sleep” movement and to share the cons of co-sleeping with the families I worked with based upon the beliefs of my employer. The following articles will highlight the many pros and cons of infant co-sleeping

Dr. James McKenna of Notre Dame University’s Mother Baby Sleep Laboratory said “the bodies of women and their babies are more in sync when they sleep together, which helps the baby sleep better. Babies are designed to feel the presence of their parents. It is only a very recent and very strange cultural innovation that babies would be sleeping apart from their mothers. It is very much a departure from the normal human pattern.” (McKenna, et al., 1994)

Furthermore, the education provided helped them to understand by each illustration was a reflection of the Safe to Sleep imitative. Modeling safe sleep not only benefited infants during hospitalization but benefited them after their discharge home. Staff were to model safe sleep by placing all infants in cribs supine, on a flat surface, in a sleep sack without a hat, and no addition items in their beds except a pacifier and bulb syringe.

1.1 Explain the pattren of developments in the first three years of life and the skills typically acquired at each stage.

Co-sleeping vs sleeping alone. Is it a problem or possibly good for the child's development? Is it life threatening? Or is it completely safe? Does Co-sleeping promote anything healthy? What are the risks involved with it? There has been much research on this subject as to whether or not co-sleeping is healthy for not only the infant but the mother and father as well. In this essay I will evaluate the pros and cons of co-sleeping, show my research and come to a conclusion I think is best.

Taking care of your health is essential not only for your own personal benefit but also to the well being of your growing baby. The importance of a healthy diet and exercise cannot be more critical during the pregnancy and postpartum stages of a woman's life. There are few changes that alter a woman's life hormonally, physically, and mentally. So that you can better be prepared for these experiences, I have prepared a healthy activity list below that I

This results in many restrictions for the pregnant Chinese woman. Some of these restrictions for the pregnant woman include; not being able to attend funerals or sad events, not lifting anything over her head, not handling scissors on the bed, not eating certain foods, and not wearing all black and white (Sullivan, 2012). Sex is also forbidden during pregnancy (Brown, 2008). The diet of a pregnant woman is guided by the idea that yin is for cold and yang is for hot (Murray, 2014). Pregnancy is considered to be a “hot” condition, so women typically consume “cold” food to keep yin and yang in balance (Raitisoja, 2008). Examples of yang (cold) food include bean sprouts and bananas and examples of yin (hot) food include bird’s nest soup and fermented pork feet with ginger (Sullivan, 2012). This is something that nurses need to understand, to be able to modify their food choices as much as possible during their hospital stay so they are able to continue with their traditions and rituals even in the hospital. It is also a common practice to wait until after the delivery of the child to throw a baby shower or even name the baby because it is considered bad luck to do so before the baby is born (Brown, 2008).

baby shifts to the birth canal. After the resting in the birth canal, the baby