Essay on Importance of Breastfeeding

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…

children is one of the Healthy People 2020 topics. Woodwinds Health Campus has taken this Healthy People topic and has expanded on it. Breastfeeding has many health benefits for mothers and children and because of this, Woodwinds implemented a program, June 2014, called Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative. This program was designed to improve the rates of breastfeeding and thus improving the health of mothers and children. This paper will discuss this policy in detail, why the program is so…

“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…

mom enough? Good nutrition for infants promote the best growth and developmental of the child. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends breastfeeding as the top nutritional choices for infants. However, breastfeeding may not be possible for all mothers. Newborns who have galactosemic should not receive human milk. Also, breastfeeding is contraindicated for mothers who are positive for HIV, active TB, chemotherapy, or radioactive isotypes. Fortunately infant formula is a healthy…

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…

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) is a constellation of physiological signs and behaviors observed following in utero exposure to opiates (Backes et al. 2012). In laymen’s terms, NAS is a group of withdrawal symptoms newborns experience after birth due to drug exposure while inside mother’s uterus. I chose this topic because NAS has increased 300% among newborns since the 1980s (Backes et al. 2012). Mothers need to be aware of possible complications to their newborn if they are consuming…

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…