When a woman gets to the pregnancy stage of her life, it is a very exciting and painful journey that most women go through or look forward to experience. Growing up in Africa, giving birth is considered to be one of the most important duties of a woman so women can have as many babies as she can. For example my grandmother had ten children. But when a woman gives birth to a baby with some deformities she sometimes face a lot of scrutinizes from the family because it is believed that if both parent of the child is healthy then automatically the baby has to be healthy and due to lack of education other factors were never put into consideration. But now thanks to education we can have an insight on causes that can affect a baby and also how to prevent these from happening.
Abnormality is malformation that requires treatments or interferes with the physical well being and it is the leading cause of infant mortality, causing twenty-two percent of infant death. Abnormality can be as a results of many things such as mother’s age, maternal drug use, drinking too much caffeine, environmental toxins, mother’s diet or even stress. Bringing a baby in to this world is so exciting but there are precautions the expectant mother needs to take in order for the baby to be healthy. Even though the body serves as a barrier between the unborn baby and the environment, there are certain toxins that can affect the baby’s health even in the mother’s womb. Doing this research I finally understood
In order to have a normal birth, both the mother and the child need to prepare for birth. The mother needs to acquire knowledge regarding what to expect, information about the baby and its special care and attention. Both need to prepare themselves with time, so that at the end of pregnancy the mother just has to sit unstressfully for the baby to arrive. The child start preparing his departure from the mother’s womb by the end of the seventh month. The child starts protecting his body from external viruses and microbes by accumulating antibodies from the mother. Also he starts absorbing extra iron, because he knows that the mother’s milk lacks iron needed for the production of red blood cells. The child rotates his body, locating his head towards the birth canal. And the baby starts accumulating fat under his skin, preparing his body for life in the external
Giving birth to a baby is the most amazing and miraculous experiences for parents and their loved ones. Every woman’s birth story is different and full of joy. Furthermore, the process from the moment a woman knows that she’s pregnant to being in the delivering room is very critical to both her and the newborn baby. Prenatal care is extremely important and it can impact greatly the quality of life of the baby. In this paper, the topic of giving birth will be discussed thoroughly by describing the stories of two mothers who gave birth in different decades and see how their prenatal cares are different from each other with correlation of the advancement of modern medicine between four decades.
There are many stereotypical views of foetal development. A pregnant woman is expected to have a healthy diet, exercise, take vitamin supplements, and have regular visits to the doctor to benefit herself and her baby. The NHS website also informs why mothers should eat healthily so this is a reason why mothers feel
During pregnancy that are existing factors that can affect the development of the foetus and that can bring health and other problems when the child is born, which the child can carry for the rest of her/his life, these
Practically any condition can be controlled until the delivery.This picture shows one of the surgeries carried out inside the uterus. Look what the impressed photographer watched though his camera lens… the tiny hand of the baby trying to grab the surgeon’s finger. * Imperfection (defect): Eugenic abortionPerfection does not mean having the right to live. People do not pass a quality control. A person can be “defective” (physically imperfect) yet still wonderful human being… or be physically complete, “perfect”, but a human monster or a despicable person. This is not a reason to abort. The kindness of a human heart does no need a perfect body to develop itself completely. What would you advice a woman who is pregnant for the fifth time…
Childbirth is one of the greatest privileges on the earth anyone could have and we, as women, should feel proud to be major contributors for it. Thus, a mother has to play a key role in aiding the healthcare workers to mitigate the health crisis associated with childbirth by performing her duties faithfully. One such associated health crisis is “Premature (preterm) birth” which occurs when the baby is born too early, before 37 weeks of gestational period (CDC, 2015). The rate of preterm birth ranges from 5% to 18% of babies born across 184 countries (WHO, 2015).
Receiving good prenatal care is extremely important for an expecting mother. The prenatal period has a great impact on the newborn's health. Low birth weight is a problem among a certain population of newborns. It is crucial to understand the conditions in poverty and its
The advanced technology today makes it possible to fetus’s potential conditions when it is born. Not everything is perfect and sometimes we find out that a baby
Many people might wonder why kids are born differently than what most consider “normal.” Multiple substances are effects that cause these fetus to develop wrong and not in usual routine that is normally seen in pregnancies. If a pregnant woman chose the wrong temptation and consumed substances that are known to cause damage and can be fatal to a baby, these mothers are making the worst mistake of taking the life of their own child away before the baby can experience what life is. Carrying a baby in the womb is one of the most heaviest challenges a woman can face and many females go wrong by falling into various temptations by not having enough information in pregnancies and going on with their daily lifestyle instead of learning about instant fetal deaths.
Out of the 1.3% are late term abortions that had taken place due to the fact that a doctor had found a danger within the child that would in turn lead the mother to death if she had carried the infant to term.Extreme Deformities are unfortunately found at the late stage of twenty one weeks or more, in which a partial birth will have to be performed, Tara Haele informs, “ Partial birth” refers to a very specific and rare procedure called Dilation and Extraction. In which a fetus is partially pulled through the birth canal and then aborted, nearly always when the fetus cannot live outside of the womb and typically when the mother's health is in danger, the fetus has a serious abnormality or both. Such a procedure is not conducted lightly; the fetus has a fatal defect and will not survive. Or the mother is at risk of death herself” (Haele,16). A high percent of mothers may perish or deformed children may die if late term abortions become illegal. In which late term abortions are only taken into action if the infant has a severe disformity or the mother's life is in danger of death. Late term abortions are taken into account only in these dismal situations in which does not occur regularly. The government over exaggerates when they state “ They are aborting babies in the twelfth month of pregnancy” in which those
Many women are blessed with being able to birth a baby, but for some women that is just not possible. In cases where a pregnancy is not developing correctly, doctors will advise a mother to have an abortion. There are many conditions where a pregnancy can put not only the fetus’s life at risk, but the mother’s as well. In some cases, a pregnancy can cause cardiovascular disease or renal disease in a mother. If a woman
Important stages of pregnancy: Pregnancy is counted from the first day of the mother 's last period. Important development immediately takes place after fertilisation of egg and sperm cells. It divides into many cells in the first week, which forms a zygote made out of 100 to 150 cells that are already differentiating. In the second week, the zygote is then changed to an embryo and it sticks to the uterine wall. This process takes up to nine months to form and develop a baby.
Preterm Birth is one of the most important and interesting topics to any prospective parent. One of the reasons is because it happens so often and unexpectedly. Preterm Birth has become a personal interest in research simply because it has made a tremendous impact in my life. Having a Preterm Birth has taught me lots of things, such as, to grow as a person and as a mother, to see things from a different perspective, to get up, continue with my life, and perhaps to learn how to say “good bye” to a little one without even saying “hello.” For all the reasons above, there are some questions I would like to address: Why do preterm births happen and how can it be prevented? What kind of help is offered to parents and family members who go through the process of having a preterm birth? How effective and relevant is that help?
Prenatal care is widely accepted as an important element in improving pregnancy outcome. (Gorrie, McKinney, Murray, 1998). Prenatal care is defined as care of a pregnant woman during the time in the maternity cycle that begins with conception and ends with the onset of labor. A medical, surgical, gynecologic, obstretic, social and family history is taken (Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary, 1998). It is important for a pregnant woman as well as our society to know that everything that you do has an effect on your baby. Because so many women opt not to receive the benefits of prenatal care, our society sees the ramification, which include a variety of complications primarily
From taking this class, I have gained significant understanding of biological determinants of women’s health. Learning about the number of unique biological risks women face is important to understand for me because I am a woman and this risks are likely to pertain to me as well. One of topic of biological aspect of women’s health we covered in class were risks factors associated with pregnancy, its complication and pregnancy itself. Understanding about maternal death and number of causes such as hemorrhage, sepsis, hypertensive, and abortion