Maternal deprivation

that 76% of mother’s initiate breastfeeding at birth but only 25% of them are seen still breastfeeding once the infant is six months of age. This observation is almost identical to that found in the US in 2010 shown in “Toward Optimal Health: The Maternal Benefits of Breastfeeding” where the authors show that 75% of women initiate breastfeeding at birth and only 35% of mothers are seen still breastfeeding once the infant reaches 6 months of age. The reasoning behind the significant drop in…

New mothers around the world plan their busy days around their new born baby, there is no such thing as a moms itinerary: it is all about the baby. Day-to-day moms follow the baby's direction whether it’s crying about their bowel movements, their tiredness, or the urgent hunger that surges through their bodies. At that moment in time a mother should not consciously have to think about judgments that are being made against her, but more importantly the main priority should be about feeding her…

“Mommy, how are babies made?” Every person has a different response when a little kid asks where babies come from. The stork is the most common story, and some parents even say they bought the kit at Walmart and assembled it. Some cultures believe the baby was found in a cabbage patch or that the stars are just babies looking down, waiting to find their place on earth. In various cases, the parents will simply explain how the baby started growing inside mommy and that you have to wait nine…

Lack of Access to a Safe Abortion: A Social Problem Abortion is a major controversial topic in the United States regarding legal issues. Many people are against it, while others believe that it is the right of the mother to decide if she wants to carry the baby to full term or not. There has been an ongoing battle in the United States for many years regarding this issue and many people, especially women who have been raped and sexually assaulted are affected by the decisions that the society…

Congratulations, you have a healthy new baby! That statement is very powerful because with just six words my life has changed forever. I am now in charge of another human beings life. Which means feeding them, changing them and bathing them. Sounds easy right? No matter how much hard work I did for nine months carrying them, the game plan has changed now. The infant is in the real world now and breathing on their own and they need me (mom) to help them survive. After me and my partner did…

In order to withstand and overcome the constant trauma that forces women to take on regularly, they must create a healthy maternal relationship with a close companion, which can encourage them to abolish the traumatic abuse. Mariam and Laila are the surrogate of the mother-daughter dynamic to replace the unhealthy start they set about with their own parents. “One day that winter, Laila asked to braid Mariam’s hair....The moment was so natural, so effortless, that suddenly Mariam started telling…

Younger mothers are at lower risk of PPD because they incorporate more up-to-date information relevant to prenatal care into their pregnancies and they are likely to have higher educations than those of higher maternal age (Beck, 2001). Khodadadi, Mahmoodi, & Mirhagjoo (2008) found that higher maternal age causes a reduction in energy, which makes the mother more susceptible to…

Weber State University Web-Camera System in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit NICview is a password-protected Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) webcam system mounted close to the premature infant, or patient, that allows remote viewing by parents and family members. (Hill, 2011) The system was designed to facilitate the bonding of parents with their infant by providing 24/7 access for remote locations. A NICU webcam program allows management of the camera by the NICU staff, meaning they have…

have been conducted in hopes of better understanding the relationship between an infant and a mother, as well as, the effect the maternal care given to the infant has on the child. Studies have supported the idea that frequent separation protest is associated with maternal inability to reduce infant tension in that protest is linked both to amount of crying and to maternal unresponsiveness to it. However, it has given no support to the idea that much affectionate physical interaction between a…

breastfeeding. Enthusiastic support and involvement of health team in promotion and practice of early initiation of breast feeding is considered essential to achieve prime health, progress and development of new born baby as well as mother and to improve “maternal infant bonding”. Factors that imitate the purpose, beginning plus length of breast feeding are complex and consequently to address these factors, specialized approach is…