Help for the hopeless
Pain can be very intense it may seem perfectly reasonable to want something that would make it stop and find some relief. It is a complicated issue, but there has to be some balance and responsibility when consuming painkillers. According to the centers for Disease control and prevention, nearly 2 million Americans abused prescription painkillers in 2013, with 44 people dying from an overdose each day (D’ Amora). Although, these are devastating news; this is not the worse part. An unborn child has to suffer the sad consequence of a pregnant woman who is addicted to these types of pills.
Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a group of problems that arise in a newborn who was exposed to addictive opiate drugs while in the mother’s womb (Lee). Therefore, symptoms of withdrawal may occur being that the baby does not receive the drug from the placenta anymore. Sadly, the absence of drug in the newborn system give rise to …show more content…
I am a mother of a five-month-old baby and the first few weeks after becoming a mother were maddening. Don’t get me wrong, I love to be a mom and I will never forget that moment when I saw him for the first time. Meeting my baby boy was a moment I was looking forward for quite some time. Although you hear testimonies from other mothers expressing how difficult are the first few days if not weeks after giving birth, it is not the same when you get to experience it. The first few weeks I was tired all the time not getting enough sleep. I remember I used to cry every day because hormones are rampaging. Not to mention, the healing part takes a while. They are extreme and tough changes. Later when you learn to know your baby it is more bearable. So, imagine the frustration of not knowing what to do when a newborn has withdrawn symptoms. Unfortunately, they had not had the necessary help that these problem
Pain can be very intense it may seem perfectly reasonable to want something that would make it stop and find some relief. It is a complicated issue, but there has to be some balance and responsibility when consuming painkillers. According to the centers for Disease control and prevention, nearly 2 million Americans abused prescription painkillers in 2013, with 44 people dying from an overdose each day (D’ Amora). Although, these are devastating news; this is not the worse part. An unborn child has to suffer the sad consequence of a pregnant woman who is addicted to these types of pills.
Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a group of problems that arise in a newborn who was exposed to addictive opiate drugs while in the mother’s womb (Lee). Therefore, symptoms of withdrawal may occur being that the baby does not receive the drug from the placenta anymore. Sadly, the absence of drug in the newborn system give rise to …show more content…
I am a mother of a five-month-old baby and the first few weeks after becoming a mother were maddening. Don’t get me wrong, I love to be a mom and I will never forget that moment when I saw him for the first time. Meeting my baby boy was a moment I was looking forward for quite some time. Although you hear testimonies from other mothers expressing how difficult are the first few days if not weeks after giving birth, it is not the same when you get to experience it. The first few weeks I was tired all the time not getting enough sleep. I remember I used to cry every day because hormones are rampaging. Not to mention, the healing part takes a while. They are extreme and tough changes. Later when you learn to know your baby it is more bearable. So, imagine the frustration of not knowing what to do when a newborn has withdrawn symptoms. Unfortunately, they had not had the necessary help that these problem