Childbirth

At the first thought of the occupation ‘midwife’, people often cringe and give a weird look. What most people do not understand is exactly what a midwife is. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “They act as primary care providers for women and newborns. They provide wellness care, educating their patients on how to lead a healthy life by discussing nutrition and disease prevention.” One reason midwives desire midwifery is to help soon-to be mothers and their babies. Just like every…

i. How is the brain changing and developing? A baby’s brain is made up of one less than one pound of gelatinous tissue. The brain of the baby is a complex organ that controls emotions, ideas, memories and dreams. A baby brain goes through enormous changes because it has not completed making complex connection yet because of its lack of experiences. There are about one trillion nerve cells that make connection with each other in order to allow the baby to have a proper functioning body. The union…

Women-centred care is an individual-focused nursing practice. It involves women in all aspects of their care and moves away from medical practice with minimal communication towards open communication. This type of care request healthcare practitioners to involve clients in the process of health care decision, including a thorough explanation of illness to clients and exploration of the client’s feelings, beliefs and expectations (Australian government department of health, 2013). The target of…

It is a very severe matter when a child dies at such a young age. Along with abortions, stillbirths are also a risk that a mother faces after consuming alcohol. Any “fetal demise that occurs after the 20th week” is no longer considered a miscarriage, but a stillbirth and “6.22 of every 1000 pregnancies” end in a stillbirth every year in the United States (Bailey and Sokol 88-89). Again, every defect has a risk, and that risk increases when a mother drinks while the child is still inside her. For…

Women in combat. 1% useful. Do not fix what is not broken; men have been fighting for thousands of years without a female counterpart and there has been no issue. Women in combat are less sufficient, in turn reducing the efficiency of their male counterparts. Women are naturally weaker to men, both physically and emotionally. There is no reason to have soldiers that lack strength and courage, which are replaced with compassion and empathy. Women are not needed in the front lines facing the…

Brooklyn’s Trials and Tribulations Brooklyn was a girl I used to hang out with whenever I was in high school. She was the first person to introduce herself to me when I attended my new high school. She was a really good friend and was always nice to me and since I was new to the school, she made me feel like I wasn 't alone and had someone to talk to. We would play volleyball a lot and play her x-box whenever I went over to her house after school. She was kind of tall and slim, so when we played…

The clock ticked by, it was 6:01 in the morning, and I kept looking at her, a look of pain was reflected on her face, sweaty and strained with the joy of anticipation. Her hands tugging hard at the bed sheet and the veins popping out on her neck were visible pulsating as she tried not to make noise, but I knew she was struggling to keep calm. How I wish I was in her spot, to feel what she was feeling; unfortunately, reality kept nudging me with my imagination being broken by the movement going…

Cultural Differences Among Pregnant Women There are many different traditions, rituals and beliefs within many cultures that may occur when a woman becomes pregnant. When a woman becomes pregnant she will ultimately receive positive or negative feedback depending on her cultures beliefs. Although, the beliefs and traditions are different, the perceptions of an expecting mother-to-be is more based on her socioeconomic status and it will determine if she will receive positive or…

Did you know that placenta abruption occurs in 1 in 100 pregnancies? The placenta is the way the baby receives food and oxygen through the umbilical cord which attaches to the wall of the uterus. In the Maternal Early Pregnancy Serum Metabolomics Profile and Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding as Predictors of Placenta Abruption: A Prospective Study, by Blzu Gelya he reported that women ages 20-34 had placenta abruption 64% out of others aged mothers. Also he reported Non-Hispanic whites had higher chance…

Until I was ten years old, I lived on a farm just northeast of a small town called Medaryville (population: 565). First, it was a solely a pig farm, then a cow and pig farm, then a horse, cow, and pig farm, and lastly just a horse farm; we had horses for the majority of my life, about seven years. Many things happened on that farm. When it was a horse farm, we would keep retired race horses there kind of as a retirement home if you will, and we would keep race horses that were being trained and…