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"Up to 12% of deliveries in developed countries are preterm." This is approximately 500,000 premature births per year. In 2009, my cousin was born ten weeks prematurely, weighing merely two pounds, four ounces. After spending a copious amount of time in and out of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with my family over the course of a month, I developed an interest in its operation. Being a neonatologist became my leading occupation of interest. I chose to further research this topic in hopes

participate in the study. One father declined participation; therefore, seven mothers and six fathers participated. One couple had twins. The infants were born at twenty three weeks and five days to twenty seven weeks and 6 days gestational age, with birth weights ranging between 492 and 1044 grams. All of whom required ventilator support, for different periods of times. The parents were interviewed at least one week after the infants were transferred from an intensive care room to another type of room

infants’ birth in multiple ways. Maternal smoking during pregnancy impairs fetal growth and decreases gestational age thus, increasing several risk factors in the neonatal population. These risk factors are low birth weight (LBW), and premature birth. There is a strong correlation between both risk factors as it relates to neonatal long-term morbidity and also mortality. Infants who are born preterm accounts for a large percentage of early neonatal deaths and studies have exhibited that low birth weight

College November 25, 2015 Often times in today’s world we take certain luxuries for granted. The right to vote, the right of free speech, etc. But one of those luxuries that people often don’t consider is the right for women to use birth control. The Supreme Court case that argued for the use of contraceptives was Griswold vs Connecticut. The court case was argued March 29th-30th 1965, but was not decided until June 7th 1965. The case was on the debate of whether or not the use of

Improving Feeding Outcomes in the NICU: Establishing an Infant-Driven Feeding Pathway Laura Pabich BSN, RN The University of Iowa College of Nursing   Improving Feeding Outcomes in the NICU: Establishing an Infant-Driven Feeding Pathway The most common reason preterm infants face prolonged hospitalization in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a delay in acquiring full oral feedings (Shaker, 2013). The purpose of this project is to improve feeding outcomes for preterm infants at Blank Children’s

Eugenics and Scientific Racism: Margaret Sanger The study or practice of attempting to ‘improve’ the human gene pool by encouraging the reproduction of people considered to have desirable traits and discouraging or preventing the reproduction of people considered to have undesirable traits; Eugenics. In the early 20th century, Eugenics grew popular among mainstream scientists, physicians and the general American public. These Eugenicists

Birthmark. Aylmer, the main character of the story, is a brilliant scientist/alchemist. He possesses a belief in "man's ultimate control over nature", and thinks there is nothing man can't overcome (Harun). His obsession with his wife Georgiana’s small birth mark, which resembles a hand, begins after they’re married. Aylmer is fixated with the idea of Georgiana's perfection; he believes that in order for him to experience perfect love, he must have a perfect woman to love (Norman). His obsession and distaste

control needs to be implemented through the enforcement of sexual education and greater access to contraceptives in order to decrease the number of births each year. First of all, if teenagers were educated about and had access to contraceptive methods, they would be more willing to put the methods into use. Few sexually active teenagers are responsible with birth control and the majority of teen pregnancies are due to a lack of contraception used before or during intercourse. Though United States does

There is much controversy over which form of sex education should be taught, comprehensive sex education, or abstinence-only sex education. The definition for comprehensive sex education is responsible and balanced sexuality education that seeks to assist young people in understanding a positive view of sexuality, provide them with information and skills about caring for their sexual health, and help them acquire skills to make decisions now and in the future. It is medically accurate and provides

first world which would you suspect teen pregnancy be the highest? Of course not our prefect country, but yet surprisingly it is. The United States has 305,388 teenagers’ ages fifteen to nineteen give live births a year. That is about 29.4 births per one thousand female teens population (“Teen Birth”). Leann came from an extremely strict home. She was only seventeen when she came home and had to tell her parents she had messed up and was going to be expecting a baby. After telling her parents her mother