Childbirth

Post-partum depression, also known as postnatal depression, is a disorder that affects a woman’s mood after giving birth (Postpartum Depression Facts, n.d.). When women give birth, the hormonal levels diminish and causes anxiety, sadness, and fatigue. Post-partum depression does not only affect the mother but it also affects the newborn baby. The mother does not want to provide for the child, she thinks that she is not able to take care of him/her. Since the mother is not mentally capable to…

In today’s society, workplace discrimination is a growing phenomenon that needs to be addressed extensively. MotherWoman, a statewide organization, supports and empowers mothers to create personal and social change by building community safety nets, impacting family policy and promoting the leadership and resilience of mothers (MotherWoman). The article, Fight For Workplace Equity for Women: Mothers Break Their Silence, written by MotherWoman for Huffington Post, addresses the issue of workplace…

Imani Moore Rita J. Czukas SOCSCI 201 Research paper draft 18 November 2015 Infant Death According to Dr. Mary Harding, in 2013 there were approximately 24,000 stillbirths and neonatal deaths reported in the United States (Harding, para 1). Many people today really don’t have knowledge on stillbirth and neonatal death until they come across it. Stillbirth is death of a baby before and during delivery. Neonatal death is when a baby dies in the first 28 days of life. In many cases the direct cause…

substances (Finkelstein, 1994). With regards to this policy, perhaps instead of looking at cause of substance abuse in general, it is more beneficial to look at the reasons why the substance abuse continues to happen during a woman’s pregnancy. There are many barriers one may face in deciding to fight addictions. However, women, particularly pregnant women, seem to face many more than their male counterparts. One such way in which pregnant women have a barrier to treatment is the limited…

The two most important themes related to health in American women 's lives between the late 1800 's and early 1900 's are contraception and abortion. Both contraception and abortion would be a turning point for individual rights as well as medicine. Before the institution of medicine accepted birth control and abortion, women in general were regarded as housewives, child bearers and most served the local communities as midwives and healers to the sick. Even though midwives were highly regarded…

Written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, “The Yellow Wall-paper” is an important piece in the naturalist movement, illustrating the difficulty of being a mentally ill woman in the late 19th and early 20th century. The novella portrays a young woman suffering from postpartum depression who is slowly loosing her sanity. As was custom at the time, the narrator was confined to a room to rest and essentially wait out her depression. Even though this method was highly ineffective, the women it…

For this paper I will be arguing my views and opinions about abortion. Abortion is one thing I am strongly against. It is taking a baby’s life that doesn’t even get a say in if they live or not. Nobody should be able to have an abortion, if they don’t want the kid then they should just put it up for adoption or take the certain measures to make sure they don’t get pregnant in the first place. There are a lot of factors that go with abortion. Not all women that are pregnant and don’t want the…

I was very intrigued at the beginning of this podcast when the radio announcers introduced Kelley and Tom. I was fascinated to hear both of their insights on the situation and not be biased if they were in the same room speaking about the topic together. It gave a different look on how serious the situation was and how both of them coped differently. The first question listed on the out-of-class assignment was asking how the couple tried to get pregnant; well, they spoke of several ways they…

My mom name is Barbara Ann Williams. She was the born March 7th 1957. My mom was the seventh child of 18. She meet my father when she was 16 and married him and move to Coffeyville, Ks. One year later when my mom was seventeen I was conceived. During the time of my mom pregnancy my dad lost his oldest sister who raised him on his birthdate in 1975. My Aunt Clara was my mom favorite sister in-law and that’s when she knew what she was going to named me. My mom was a short petite seventeen year old…

Imagine that 20 years later, we may have children who are in the same age as us. At that time, can we ask ourselves confidently whether we are a good parent or not. Normally, most people would answer with confidence that they play a good role in their children’s life. However, for some who do not love their children, or who they want to give up the chance to be parents at first, if they ask their children this kind of questions, their children may answer that it is not that happy to born in a…