Childbirth

(Cornelius et al, 2011). Teenage mothers are in need of unique appreciation, health care, and guidance concerning proper diet, illnesses, drug abuse, and general care during pregnancy. Lack of social and family support during pregnancy and after childbirth also puts the young adults at a great risk (Oberlander & Black, 2011). This paper seeks to discuss the relationship between family and social support and the health of adolescent mothers. Moreover, the paper will analyse the impact of the…

I feel that the United States has over-medicalized pregnancy and childbirth. It seems that most women living in the states don’t know there is a choice when it comes to birthing, this was also true for all my pregnancies. Ricki Lake mentions in her documentary, The Business of Being Born, that she had no idea there was anything different than having a baby in a hospital. Just like Ricki Lake, I too didn’t know there was any other choice. I was told the hospital was the only safe option and real…

societies. In this case, we are discussing how birth in Norway is supposed to be considered natural and something that comes relatively easy for the typical woman. They are expected to have little to no medicine or incisions made on their bodies during childbirth. For infibulated Somali women, having a child can come with complications and put their body through more pain and stress. It shocked me that the midwives didn't ask if the women wished to receive episiotomies. I know just from past…

access to things such as food or water. However, in Tanzania, an expecting mother wouldn’t have a room to herself, access to water, or painkillers. The article “Giving Birth in Different Worlds” discusses these differences, “…the risk of dying during childbirth in Tanzania is a hundred times higher than it is in Sweden.” There is a huge gap in maternal health between more and less developed countries. Because of this, MDCs such as Sweden have received many immigrants from LDCs such as Iraq or…

“Four out of every five deaths of children under the age of five occur in sub- Saharan Africa and southern Asia -- many are newborn babies whose deaths could be prevented with simple, inexpensive solutions. The proportion of mothers who die during childbirth is still 14 times higher in developing countries than in high-income countries” (WHO 2). It’s hard to take care of one person let alone a full family, when you can’t make things better because of how the economy is. Third world countries are…

Pregnancy discrimination in the workplace has had a long history of claims through out the United States and has forced many women to fight for their rights and proceed with lawsuits against their employers. The Courts have the difficult task to interpret laws and enforce them to favor those women, who feel have been treated unequally. According to the American Association of University Woman, a nation’s leading voice which goals is to promote equity and education for girls and women,…

novel due to their different experiences of maternity. Somer being unable to conceive drags her along an emotional journey in which she is ashamed and worried. Kavita’s experiences with childbirth are much more intense than Somer’s with her first and second born being taken away from her. The concept of childbirth, pregnancy, and mothering is found to be an individual process. With each protagonist having their different experience with pregnancy, there are…

over a several week span (Berk, P. 124). After Dhara was eleven hours in labor the cervix has dilated to 10 cm, and she was ready to push. Dhara Pushed for an hour and out came a new born. Due to the fact that Dhara and her husband chose natural childbirth, and Dhara’s husband was right next to her using Lamaze techniques the transition phase of labor was only an hour long. According to the text mothers in child labor tend to have fewer birth complication and several hours shorter if they have…

1. I diagnosis Eleanor with pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) based on her history and examination. Pelvic floor dysfunction is the inability to control the pelvic floor muscles and failure to function properly is due to old age, obesity, pregnancy, menopause, and a vaginal delivery (Bartling, 2016). Its symptoms include urinary problems, constipation, a heavy feeling or bulge in the pelvis, and pain. Eleanor presents a majority of the risks factors and symptoms. She is more likely to have PFD…

By the time Congress passed the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, many employers had created maternity leave programs. The main reasoning and argument behind the creation of this policy was in response to the increased “feminization” of the work force. (Dobin & Kelly,1999) . As executed and accepted as maternity leave is in every industrial and developed nation across the world, in the United States maternity leave policies were developed as a form of sexual discrimination. By the year 1977…