The purpose of this essay is to reflect on and discuss midwifery continuity of care and my personal experience of participating in the Continuity of Care Experience. This essay will evaluate benefits and challenges of continuity of care and I will provide details of my personal experience. I will relate this to professional codes and standards for midwifery care in Australia and reflect on what I have learned that I will take with me into my future practice as a midwife working within a continuity of care model. Midwifery continuity of care is encompassed in the framework of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Board’s National competency standards for the midwife (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA), 2006). The overarching framework…
Martha Ballard was a woman who was really just a normal woman in eighteenth century New England. She was ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. In A Midwife’s Tale, a book by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Martha served Hallowell, Maine as a midwife. She kept a diary of her life and exploits. This diary was used as a window into the world of Martha Ballard and her experiences in life.…
It has taken me quite a while to decide upon a major, but when I started looking into nursing, it was like everything just clicked. There have been many factors that led to this decision. The biggest one of all is my mother’s last pregnancy. Towards the end of her third trimester, she started having difficulties especially with her blood pressure. I remember being with her in the hospital and watching as a doctor and a couple of nurses fluttered in and out of her room.…
Through out this documentary I learned and was surprised about a lot of what was going on in the video. I myself do not have children an I haven't been around anyone close to me having to make the decision whether to go to the hospital or go to a birthing center/ midwife. Too be honest I rarely ever thought about the various options women had when talking about giving birth. I always thought I would go to the hospital and get all the medication I could to decrease the pain but after watching this video my opinion and plan did a full 360. I was very surprised to hear all the various evidences supporting why women should go to a midwife rather than an OBGYN.…
Many parents look back on the day their first child was born, and consider it to be the greatest day of their life. The moments shortly after labor seem subtle and all worth it for brief moment; but it is just the beginning to the journey of a long parenthood. So, what about the nine months before labor that makes the journey so excruciating for a couple? For a woman, it might be the pain that comes with a growing baby inside of them, or the immense amount of hormonal spikes they endure. During the long journey a couple takes on many obstacles throughout the three trimesters, but few people actually shed any light on the man’s role during a pregnancy.…
In the past I have written many papers for my English teachers. From writing memoirs, research papers, and argumentative research papers I have always had someone to peer review my writings. One specific time I was assigned to write a research paper about a job career that I wanted to have in the future. I decided research Nurse Midwifery because I plan on becoming a nurse midwife or working in labor in delivery. When I had some one peer review my paper the feedback that I received was very useful.…
New immigrants to Canada are much more likely to have babies than their native-born counterparts. Immigrant women who have spent five years in Canada “have almost twice as many children of pre-school age (as) the average Canadian-born woman,” according to an extensive study by two noted economists. The University of Waterloo’s Ana Ferrer and Princeton University’s Alicia Adsera pored over two decades of Statistics Canada census data to reach their conclusion. There are major birthrate differences depending on newcomers’ country of origin: The women who have the highest birthrates tend to be from Africa, Pakistan and India.…
It is common for different nations to perceive mental processes differently from each other, but the universal, psychological process of pain unifies cultures across the globe. The specific pain of childbirth is a common and expected understanding amongst the women of the world and is defined by her cultural and educational background. Her levels of distress measured verbally or nonverbally, reach out to all mothers as they too have experienced the same pain. The perception of pain and women’s reaction to giving birth gives the purpose to the study titled, “Cultural and Educational Influences on Pain Of Childbirth”, conducted by Matisyohu Weisenberg and Zahava Caspi in the hopes of discovering a better understanding on dealing with laboring…
After being surprised about my pregnancy, last week, I had the harsh reality of being pregnant woman. I was mentally and physically stressful because I had all ills related to the first stage of pregnancy. I was so stressed to the point of starting fearing for myself. I had dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and all these were constantly followed by a permanent flu. In summary I had a terrible week that I spent by staying in my bed and that really made me very stressed.…
One in five women with history of pre eclampsia or eclampsia had features suggestive of PPD. The magnitude of PPD increases with the severity of the disease condition. Women who were young, single with lower level of education or having perinatal death had higher risk of postpartum depression. Also those women who lacked family support and had experienced stressful event during pregnancy. To prevent morbidity due to PPD, pregnant women with pre eclampsia and eclampsia should be screened for this condition along with making it an integral part of postnatal care.…
The moment you've been waiting for is right around the corner. You've spent the last nine months watching your body grow as your little one grows inside you. While the joys of pregnancy are many, there have also been challenges, including fatigue, weight gain, and loss of balance and coordination. At this point, you're ready to welcome your baby into the world. The last step before holding her in your arms is labor.…
Becoming A Mother When I found out I was going to be a mother, I had so many emotions running through me. I was happy, scared and very nervouse. I had no idea what to expect the next nine months. What I did know was I had a lot todo and a lot to perpare for.…
Prenatal Care during Pregnancy to Reduce Birth Risks Unintentional or unplanned pregnancies are a major health concern linked to increased risks of harmful behaviors, abortions, negative social and birth outcomes (Feldman, 2012). According to Moeller, Veseau, and Carr while the rates of pregnancy and childbirth among adolescents under the age of 20 in the United States have fallen since 1990 it is not expected to disappear entirely and remains a national problem (2007). Pregnancy in adolescence has been connected to a variety of unfavorable maternal and infant outcomes. Health risks for teens and their infants include low birth weight, risk of prematurity, developmental delays, and poor prenatal weight gain.…
The topic I chose to write about for my process essay is a Cesarean section commonly known as a C-section. Women sometime struggle to have a natural birth. Everyone is not able to carry out a full term pregnancy. The Cesarean section allows for fetal distressed babies or any unborn baby to be safely removed from the womb. This medical process dates back to the first successful recorded C-section in 1500.…
Having a new born baby in the house will have negative and positive impact. The issues i’m going to talk to about is physical, social, mental and emotional factors. All of their issues have impact on the baby and the parents. The physical change on the mother can make them feel negative about them self. After a mother have a child there body has changes and that can make the mother feel positive or negative about herself.…