Childbirth

This is not your typical birth story, as I was not surrounded by friends and relatives or even the OB-GYN that had helped me plan the birth. My boyfriend, Troy, and I had spent the previous day at the hospital because I had an awful headache. After giving me a painkiller, the nurses sent me home and advised me to come back if a headache returned. Troy and I went home, ate dinner and took a nap. I woke up and my head was pounding again, so we headed for the hospital. We arrived a few minutes…

The world health organisation recommends that women should exclusively breastfeed their infants for six weeks (World Health Organisation, 2001) and to continue breastfeeding for the first two years of their child’s life based on the benefits of breastfeeding. However, currently, the breastfeeding outcomes worldwide are not meeting this goal. This essay will focus on the current in hospital practices that impact on breastfeeding outcomes; this essay will also include a discussion on the role of…

On an average, according to UNICEF, 353,000 babies are born daily around the world, that makes it about 127,750,000 babies every year. Many of these children are given well lovely homes with parents who love them, but there are others who are abandoned and often sent to orphanages. Some in poorer countries are often left exposed to nature without the love of a parent, without feeling nurture, this being the same scenario in the novel Frankenstein. The story starts out with a curious young Victor…

In Meg Elisons, Book of the Unnamed Midwife, a deadly fever takes most of the women and children of the world's population, Karen was one of the few females to survive. In the male dominated world, change was required in order to have protection and survive. Karen had to change her life from a sophisticated nurse to a barbaric way of living, disguise herself, and move frequently to protect herself and survive. Karen was quickly introduced to the new barbaric lifestyle she would have after she…

The first menstruation, got “on the same day of the month as the other girls, […] all synchronized in their lunar rhythms” (Eugenides), is Cecilia’s body signal that she is biologically mature and able to bear pregnancy. She approaches womanhood and gets closer to the characteristics of a harlot, consequently further from a young and immaculate virgin. The blood is also inherently connected with defloration, in many cultures an indicator of becoming a sexually active woman, thus becoming a…

Source A- The elephant in the room: How contraception could save future elephants from culling By- Rose Eveleth Web address- Rose Eveleth . 2011. The elephant in the room: How contraception could save future elephants from culling . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-elephant-in-the-room/. [Accessed 05 February 16]. Summary of evidence- In the 1900’s poaching threatened to wipe out the elephant population in South Africa. This made conservationists worried, so…

In a world where gender inequality has existed for generation after generation it is to no surprise that it’s still a popular topic to this very day. While the media mainly focuses on subjects like, income inequality, and equal opportunities for both genders, it has forgotten about the discrimination that nearly all woman face because of their maternal right to give birth. For a country that has been a world leaders in woman’s rights, allowing the first woman to vote all the way back in 1893…

Malcolm Koetz first discursive essay rough draft 2015 Rough draft… ABORTION. TO BE OR NOT TO BE. Abortion is the practise of forcing out and or ending pregnancy by removing the foetus or embryo from the womb before it is able to survive on its own. Abortion is often looked down upon by certain religions because it does not give the child a chance of life especially in the religion of Christians ‘’who have the immense belief that life is sacred and no one has his or her own right to take life…

The definition of an abortion is the process of ending a woman’s pregnancy by the termination of an embryo or fetus inside the mother’s womb (Pros and Cons Abortion). During the process of an abortion, the unborn child is not treated as a human being. The baby is treated as a nuisance; it is not given the proper care, it is regarded as a nonliving thing (Abortion Facts). Abortion is not the only method to take when a mother is confused by her feelings about the pregnancy for how her pregnancy…

Appendix 1 Nurse Perception of Medication Errors Modified Gladstone 2001 Why Do You Think Medication Errors Occur? 1. The following ten statements are all possible causes of medication errors. Please read them carefully and Rank #1 to #10. (#1 is the most frequent and #10 the least frequent). a. Drug errors occur when the nurse fails to check the _______ patient’s name band with the Medication…