Breastfeeding Essay

WHO HAS THE SAY? WOMEN AND FAMILY PLANNING DECISIONS – A CASE STUDY OF KILIFI DISTRICT, KENYA By WALUSUNA, C. LEAHBELL INTRODUCTION Family planning is an essential service, not only for improving maternal and newborn health, but also plays a key role in poverty alleviation, contributes to the advancement of women’s rights and choices as well as the general economic development of a country. Family planning allows individuals to attain their desired number of children and determine the…

Bearing a child today is known as very common, and normally there are little to no risks involved because of the medical care we receive. However, this was not the case for the people in Ancient Egypt. Though the birth of a child was still a time of great joy, there were many risks involved and the result of death was common. During this time there was a high rate of infant mortality, and mothers were at risk because of the stress childbirth brings on mothers (Brewer). The best way to protect…

Question #1: How does your baby's eating, sleeping and motor development compare to the typical patterns in the first 8 months? On May 16th, at 11:26 a.m. our beautiful baby girl Lila was delivered via C-section. We were told that she had an Apgar score of 7-8 (virtual child). Because her score is between 7 and 10 she is in the range of good to excellent standing in regards to appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, and respiration (Arnett, p. 107). Because the first year of an infant’s life…

The article, The Score by Atul Gawande, illustrated the history of pregnancy deliveries with the article profiling Elizabeth Rourke and her journey of giving birth to her daughter. The Score is an article where I acquired knowledge from a topic that I knew very little about. For example, the process of how women are in labor and how long they must wait until they are “in labor.” In addition, how long they must wait until their contractions are in a certain pace, “the nurse asked if the…

“Double the fun. Double blessing. Double delight” (Fierro). Why have one when you can have two? When parents find out they are having twins, it changes the situation into something they could have never imagined. There are definitely challenges when you have twins, all the way from pregnancy to teen years. Parenting twins is a major hassle, especially because there are two instead of one. Of course, raising twins is a lot harder than taking care of a single baby, due to the fact that there are…

1. Describe Ossification during Fetal Development. During the fetal development the first stage of the “bones” is cartilage which resembles bones but is more flexible due to the lack of calcium salts as it develops calcium salts are deposit into it all through until after it is born to life. As a result, the process of gradual replacement of immature bone cells and calcium deposits is called Ossification. 2. What are the roles of Osteoclasts in bone formation? The roles of Osteoclasts in bone…

Delayed Cord Clamping. Does it Help Your Baby? Delayed cord clamping is a procedure where the umbilical cord is not clamped until after the placenta has been birthed or the pulsations have stopped which could take about three minutes after birth. This increases the blood flow from the placenta to the newborn causing and increase in the baby’s blood volume. Since there is more blood flow that means that there is more iron and oxygen in the baby’s system, which is key for healthy brain…

Title: Effectiveness of Auditory Evoked Brain Potentials in diagnosis of hyperacusis and phonophobia in a case with Williams Syndrome. Introduction: Williams Syndrome (WS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder associated with a hemizygous deletion on chromosome (7)(1), . It is caused by the submicroscopic deletion of 1.5 to 1.8 Mb on chromosome 7q11.23(2), including the general transcription factor ill gene which encodes TFII-I which suppresses cell-surface accumulation of transient receptor…

Introduction Are you suspecting that you may be pregnant? Have you been searching for an accurate pregnancy testing solution? If you want to know the truth about your pregnancy status, then this article will offer the right solutions to your problems. While most women believe that they must visit their gynecologist to obtain correct pregnancy test results, the truth is that clear blue offers accurate pregnancy results just like the urine test that the doctor performs. Clear blue is globally…

Journal Article Critique One The article Keys to Quality Infant Care by Alice Sterling Honig was appropriately informative and comprehensive. I appreciated the holistic view of baby care instead of the author supposing that one miraculous method will satisfy all the needs of baby care. To my surprise, babies can be very smart and communicative. For a long time I believed that babies could not think for themselves. In addition, I assumed a mother could only guess at her baby’s needs…