Childbirth

Several concepts from the Birth Territory theory can be applied to the critical situation that occurred in August 2013. ‘Terrain’ is referred to several times in the incident. During induction the woman was placed in a birthing suite for early and active labor. A hospital-birthing suite closely resembles a ‘surveillance room’. Birthing suite rooms are designed to closely monitor the mother and her babies throughout the course of the labor via maternal and fetal heart rate monitoring,…

According to the first article, the focus of the study is based on a “protocol of a quasi-experiment to increase the engagement of pregnant women who smoke in NHS Stop Smoking Services” (Bennett et al. BMC Public Health 2014). The study carried out in the first article’s aims to gather reliable and valid information on how effective the three different models of service delivery to deal with the breach in the evidence base about how to carry out a flexible, customized stop smoking service for…

midwifery courses. This allows her to practice delivering babies at home with a certificate. The idea of being a midwife is being able to serve women and their babies the natural way. Midwives believe that hospitals are only for emergencies during childbirth. Since the idea that women are supposed to deliver their babies in a hospital became prevalent, midwives have not been able to continue their practice. The problem isn’t that midwives aren’t doing their job right, the problem is that…

percentage of infanticides and undesired childbearing was and still currently is abundantly high. Margaret Sanger, a sex educator, nurse, and American birth control activist, whom acknowledged the need to inform women on the self-control of childbirth gave a speech in 1921, “A Moral Necessity for Birth Control.” Sanger disputes that the understanding of “contraceptive techniques” would not only benefit families as a whole, but would also give women the right to control her body…

REVIEW OF LITERATURE 1.0 INTRODUCTION The exact definition of postpartum period has been very vague. Certain clinicians consider the time from birth to the return of reproductive organs to normalcy as the period of postpartum, while others consider postpartum period to be the time between the fourth stage of labor and the postpartum recovery year (1). It can also be considered as three distinct yet continuous phases. Between six and twelve hours post delivery which is the acute phase, between…

said a 17 year old teenager with the name of Jane Doe, wants an abortion which could put her health at risk especially now that she's at 15 weeks pregnant. Doctor Nancy L. Stanwood said “While first trimester abortion is over 10 times safer than childbirth, the risk…

straining at defecation, a feeble pelvic floor and anal sphincter muscles or a deficiency of fixation of the lower bowel (rectum) to nearby pelvic structures. Rectal prolapse is six times more common in females than in males, but is not connected to childbirth. It is common in initial childhood…

victims of rape and incest should not be forced to carry out an emotionally and physically unhealthy pregnancy. Lastly, the ages that women typically get pregnant and want abortions, do not have bodies fully developed for childbirth, resulting in a dangerous and potentially deadly childbirth. Discussing this topic…

University of Louisville, writes in her text, Diagnosing Unnatural Motherhood, Nineteenth-Century Physicians and 'Puerperal Insanity', physicians were very clear that the woman's insanity was brought on by her situation, and that the puerperal (post childbirth) state simply lowered the woman's strength so that she could no longer deal with the adverse environmental conditions. Kindness, rest and reassurance was the best treatment. (Theriot,…

gestation. Studies show that less than two percent of abortions occur after twenty weeks. So, for the most part,the baby isn’t physically harmed by being aborted. Abortions can also solve the many problems that come along with unplanned pregnancy, childbirth, and the adolescent life of said child. Legalized abortions are a gateway out of these problems and should stay an option for women who…