Infant school

According to all the respondents, Safe Childbirth Checklist helped them in governing the vitals of both mother and child. They also said that it helped them in determining the danger signs and critical condition of pregnant women with the help of Partograph, few said that it helped them in identifying PPH and thus preventing PPH with the help of oxytocin. It helped them in recalling the patient history as said by one of the labor room staff at Mundawar CHC. Most of them agreed that checklist…

One implementation that has been made is to improve childbirth and health of women and children in the U.S is the reduction of infant mortality. This was implemented by expanding programs that prepare mother for childbirth where they are educated on what to expect during labor and delivery. Immunization was implement to improve the health of children. Also implemented is skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth. 2. How is low birth weight defined? Gestational age? Identify five risk…

Base on on the reading Theresa has some knowledge of childcare but this is her first time as a mother and as a nurse I would find it important to educate her on fatigue and proper nutrition and how it ties in together. Fatigue is common in the first few week of postpartum however physical exhaustion which is a decrease capacity for physical and mental work is a sign of postpartum fatigue which can last for as long as 19months (Davidson, 929, 2016). On initial visit to Theresa’s home I would do…

diagnosed as early as 11 weeks into pregnancy using chorionic villi sampling (CVS). If Tay Sachs is not diagnosed before birth, a red spot on the macula, is also an indicator that a child has the genetically fatal disease. Tay Sachs begins to affect infants as early as 3-6 months of age. Symptoms of Tay Sachs become obvious when delayed mental and social development begins to occur and slowly deteriorate as the nervous system is badly affected. Symptoms that the children will begin to experience…

The Life Of Carrie The start of Carrie Coker’s life was an exciting time for her family. In 2003, Carrie Coker was born on April 11. In Harrison County Hospital, on a cold day, Carrie was born. When she came home, she had to sleep in a car seat because she had trouble breathing. Carrie’s mother had to have a C-sectioned in order to bring her into this world, she was born two and a half months premature. She had to stay in Kosair Children’s Hospital for a whole month. Carrie…

Paid Maternity Leave in the United States From the abject misery of Haiti, past the streets of Afghanistan, and to the slums of Djibouti, working women and men all have something in common; paid maternity leave. The poorest and most corrupt nations in the world, along with the most advanced and modernized, all have laws in place for ensuring pay when a mother has a child (Lerner). Most of the countries in the world have caught on to this necessary enforcement for working families, with an…

“It is primarily the blameworthiness of parental non-action, however, that justifies recognition of a tort duty to protect minor children” (Johnson & Hargrove, p. 319). “For example, in Laser v. Wilson,28 the high court of Maryland found that the parents of a two year-old child, and not their hosts, who had invited the parents and their child to a family gathering, had the duty to protect the child from the obvious danger of an open stairwell. 29 In a Texas case, a trial court entered a tort…

I had to cope with not being able to hold my twins. Instead, I would talk to them and touch their tiny bodies through the arm-holes of the incubator. When I was finally allowed to hold them, I realized that even the simple task of holding something so small and delicate was a challenge. With the assistance of the nurses, and a technique known as “kangarooing,” whereby skin to skin contact is used, my babies were sleeping on my chest in no time. After the twins and I mastered bottle feedings, I…

Infants with Krabbe disease are normal at birth. Symptoms begin between the ages of 3 and 6 months with irritability. It is better to know about the disease and recognize the symptoms before it is too late. If a person is diagnosed with Krabbe disease before…

relates to a recent rash of tragedies in New York City involving mothers throwing their infants out of multi-story windows resulting in multiple infant fatalities. Postpartum depression is defined as a depressive…