Women Of The World : Child Birth

Disappearing Daughters: The Tragedy of Female Foeticide is a book which is based on female foeticide by Gita Aravamudan. It is published on March 2007 by the Penguin publishers. This book touches the conscience of ours by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

The theory I selected to apply to the above situation is the Birth Territory theory. This theory was created from empirical data collected by the authors who serve as both midwives and researchers. It has a critical post-structural feminist undertone and elaborates on the ideas of Michel Foucault. The Birth Territory theory predicts and elaborates on the relationships between jurisdiction (use of authority and influence), terrain (the birthing environment), and personal emotional and physiological experience by the mother. This nurse-midwifery theory was chosen because both of the major concepts directly correlate with the incident and are critical aspects of labor and delivery situations. MAYBE ELABORATE A diagram of the Birth Territory theory can be seen in Appendix A.

All over the world Female Infanticide is a cruel and sinuous act. Every child deserves a chance to live and experience life. Female Infanticide also goes against the women's right to freedom and gender equality. In a global view of Female Infanticide, Female Infanticide should be reduced before it is too late.

In the United States, the process of childbirth is far more dangerous for African American women than it is for White women. For African American women, the path to a healthy birth is riddled with barriers. There are many health disparities between the two races. African American women face much higher low-birth and infant mortality rates; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published that although infant mortality rates in the U.S. have dropped by over 10% in the past ten years, a large gap continues to exist between the health of the races during the entire childbirth process. (World Health Organization, 2010) In the United States, Black infants are more than twice as likely to die within the first year of life as a White infant, and this disparity has not seen advancements in the last century. Many of these deaths can be attributed to low birth weight, and preterm birth among black infants.

Harwood’s poetry are valued texts because they explore challenging ideas of nostalgia and mortality. Discuss this statement in light of your understanding of the poetry of Gwen Harwood.

For hundred of years, women have wrestled with their womanhood, bodies, and what it means to be a woman in our society. Being a woman comes with a wonderful and empowering responsibility--giving birth. What sets us aside from other countries is that the process and expectations of giving birth has changed in our society; coming from midwifery, as it has always been since the early times, to hospitals where it is now expected to give birth at. Midwifery was a common practice in delivering babies in

Watson and Mason’s article, “Power of the first Hour” and Risworth, et al.’s article “I was on the way to the Hospital but I Delivered in the Bush” both focus on aspects of maternal and infant care and demonstrate the fundamental differences between western policies enacted to improve women’s lives in developing countries and the local realty in those developing countries.

Does everybody think or feels the same about childbirth around the world? This question above is a question that has always been in my mind. Now that I got the opportunity of choosing a topic to do research. I decided to choose childbirth and culture. This research paper is going to talk about how different cultures and countries look a birth in an entirely different manner. Some look at birth as a battle and others as a struggle. And on some occasions, the pregnant mother could be known as unclean or in other places where the placenta is belief to be a guardian angel. These beliefs could be strange for us but for the culture in which this is being practiced is natural and a tradition. I am going to be introducing natural and c-section childbirth. And, the place of childbirth is going to be a topic in this essay. America is one country included in this research paper.

This article was all about mistreatment of women during childbirth in health facilities. Even though, they stated that mistreatment has declined, it was shocking to see that it still exists at a level that needs to be studied. The background of the mistreatment ranges from neglect, abuse, and overall disrespect, however, I feel like there is so much more that can be addressed and there is later in the article, which I found very important. Continuing, reading that the mistreatment is not only through interaction of women and provider, but also through systematic failure at the facility itself was a valuable point to bring across, because when thinking of mistreatment I immediately thought of person to person.

That is almost thirty-five percent of all births. Along with all of the common issues, there are new ones arising. For example, in Afghanistan there has been an increase in sales of over-the-counter oxytocin which is an injectable hormone that can be used to stop postpartum bleeding and speed up labor but can be deadly if given incorrectly. Finally, after millions of deaths and little government action, the issue of maternal mortality is once and for all attracting attention. In July, at the G-8 summit of industrialized nations in Hokkaido, Japan, maternal deaths were acknowledged as an important obstacle to development for the first time. It paid off and there has been progress in multiple poor countries. For example, in Honduras maternal mortality rates dropped by about fifty percent after rural clinics were opened and thousands of midwives were trained. In the Indian states of Assam, Madhya Pradesh, and Orissa pregnant women were given financial assistance. In Sierra Leone there were even fines set if a woman didn’t give birth in a

Anthropologist Emily Martins book” “The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction” is an ethnographic study of male-oriented metaphors for women 's reproductive processes and women 's real thoughts about those processes through interviews. Martin and her assistants interviewed 165 African American and white women, regarding three stages of life starting with the earliest in woman’s life being puberty, then childbearing, and final stages of reproduction cessation being menopause. 57% of the interviewees were middle-class, and 43% of her interviewees were women from the working class.

Articles found in the review of literature discussed various screening tools and methods that can be used to successfully identify women involved in intimate partner violence. Journals typically reporting on this topic were all known to be scholarly journals such as Journal of Perinatology, European Journal of Public Health, European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal Child Health Journal and Journal of Clinical Nursing. Seven studies were found that investigated the prevalence of IPV in women during pregnancy using the Abuse Assessment Screen in various countries during different stages of pregnancy (Bunn et al., 2009; Hellmuth, Gordon, Stuart, & Moore, 2013; Keeling & Mason, 2011; Lutgendorf, Thagard, Rockswold, Busch, & Magann, 2012; Massumi Okada, Komura Hoga, Vilela Borges, Sartori, & Aparecida Belli, 2015; Roelens, Verstraelen, Van Egmond, & Temmerman, 2008). In two of the studies, the population studied were pregnant women in the first trimester and postpartum (Hellmuth et al., 2013; Keeling & Mason, 2011). The next study only looked at women who were postpartum (Massumi Okada et al., 2015). Another study studied women in their third trimester (Velasco, Luna, Martin, Caño, & Martin-de-Las-Heras, 2014). Three studies looked at pregnant women across all trimesters (Hammoury & Khawaja, 2007; Lutgendorf et al., 2012; Roelens et al., 2008). The final two

1) The authors recommended that the women who are victimized by psychological distress undergo multifaceted assessments or invention.

When we think about cultural barriers, we tend to think about language, low English proficiency, or even poverty an instrumental barrier to accessing an in-depth care assessment. Male dominant cultures pose a different barrier to the care that is given in this population. Perez states, that in some cultures the man dominates the plan of care while the woman has little say in her treatment plan (Perez & Luquis, 2014). Coming from the Western way of thinking, we tend to address these male dominant occurrences with trepidation until we realize that we are need to be sensitive and understand the culture as whole. It is not always easy to stand back and accept the norms of other cultures. It’s hard to work in the NICU with moms who have just

Western culture is very critical about Third World women and poor women becoming pregnant. This criticism comes from a society where women have the right to contraception more than others do and where abortion is a legal option for women.