Maternal

deprived access to paid maternal leave, an incredibly sad reality. In the U.S. alone, 19 million women are the sole income earners of families with children. Around the world, countries have responded to the rise of women in the workforce by implementing job protected leave policies such as paid maternal leave to support mothers who must manage their jobs and pregnancy simultaneously. Infant care requires new mothers to take time off from work and paid

outcomes, including symptoms of depression, anxiety, physiological malaise, and a lack of happiness (Goldsteen and Ross 1989; Rizzo, Schiffrin, and Liss 2012; Ross 1995). But this reality often remains unseen, protecting the deeply cherished myths of maternal bliss held by contemporary western societies. These myths, which depict mothering practices as a woman’s natural and joyful instinct, are understood by researchers as the social and historical constructions of motherhood, ideologies that are not

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

antenatal care and delivery by a trained personnel (WHO, 2007). For example, in a country like Uganda, only 30 percent of married women from the age of 15 to 49 use modern family planning methods (Salwa Bitar & McKenzie Lamborne, 2014). Low rates of maternal health service utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa have also been attributed to the unequal gender relations arising from religious beliefs, teachings and practices and cultural influences (Katherine Marshall, 2013; UNAIDS, 2014; International Community

Given that my maternal family is Muslim and my paternal family beliefs consist of Christianity and Agnosticism, I cultivated a natural aptitude for open communication and cooperative with others who hold beliefs and ideas that differ from my own. Being born as an African American male with a Muslim family in Southern Mississippi subjected me at a young age to be aware of highly nuiance social dynamics that are present in society. Furthermore, growing up around refugees from the Middle East and experiencing

and Mrs. Byrd, for example. These female/male comparisons illustrate Stowe’s faith in the maternal role and the power that women possess. To elucidate the aforementioned ability of the maternal figure it must be known that the ideal nature of this influence is an indirect one. Rather than direct action from the women, Stowe emphasizes the ability of women to exert a positive moral influence

The monitoring progress indicator for this would be, maternal mortality ratio and the number of births attended by a skilled healthcare person. o The second target is to have universal access to reproductive health by 2015. The monitoring progress indicators for this target according to MDG Indicators 2008

opposing. Some studies declare that an increased maternal age has been reported as a predictor; yet, no statistically noteworthy connection has been found according to Alvik A, Heyerdahl S, Haldorsen T, Lindemann R (2006), Harrison PA, Sidebottom AC (2009), Fotham E, Ali R, White J, Robinson J (2008) and Leonardson GR, Loudenburg R, Struck J (2007) (cited in Kitsantas, Gaffney, Wu, & Kastella, 2013). In isolated studies, women with increased maternal education were inclined to drink alcohol during

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

Topic: Are infants afraid of heights Sorce, James F., & Others. (1985). Maternal Emotional Signaling: Its Effect on the Visual Cliff Behavior of 1-Year-Olds. Developmental Psychology, 21(1), 195-200. The study shows the author wanted us to know if emotions will affect an infant’s behavior. The author conducted his study in four different parts with five emotions, fear, anger, interest, happiness, sadness. Infants placed on a visual cliff, where there were a shallow side and a far or deep side