Maternity

Karen Edwards and Shaun Bayes have capitalized on the former's year of maternity leave to travel across the US, Central America, and South America with Esme and Quinn, their two children. The family packed their travel bags nine weeks after Quinn's birth. ABC reported that Edwards, a nurse manager at a London hospital, sustained full or partial payment through nine months of maternity leave, while the final three months of her leave were unpaid. The family rented out their London residence to…

“a 2013 study found the length of maternity leave has an effect on postpartum depression (PPD). When the statistics are broken down, going back to work before 3 months after having a baby nearly doubles the risk for PPD.” () Companies want women to rush back to work after having a baby, but how productive is she really going to be if she’s sick? Besides, it would cost the companies more in health care cost for postpartum depression then it would for paid maternity leave. Happy and healthy…

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Maternity care practices are continually changing how women are cared for during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. But how a woman’s body functions during those times—and what she needs—hasn’t changed since the beginning of humankind. A key to having positive pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experiences is receiv- ing care that meets the family’s needs and desires. To receive such care, families must figure out just what their needs and desires are—and the first step is to learn…

pregnant I was permitted an 8-months maternity leave, two months longer than the allowed leave to be home with my baby girl. Despite this, I still found it very difficult to leave her. By the time, I had my second child, I truly felt I could not leave again. Though I loved being home with my girls during the second maternity leave; I dreaded the leaving them. As much as I loved my job, I had to go back. Blessed that I could stay home with my kids Proceeding my maternity leave, I reluctantly went…

In two years, I will begin my career as a nurse at a well-known hospital in New Jersey. I will have my BSN from Ramapo College of New Jersey and be working in the maternity ward. I am not sure if I want to become a maternity nurse or a neonatal nurse. I am sure that I want to deal with infancy somewhere in between my life. The reason to why I wanted to be a nurse specifically for infancy is because; there is countless amount of wickedness in the world and we as adults are exposed to the world.…

The Kinship and Bond of Blood Tie Breastfeeding The text “The Milk of the Male: Kinship, Maternity and Breastfeeding in Medieval Islam” written by Mohammed Hocine Benkheira (2013) carefully demonstrates how breastfeeding contributes benefits of kinship between the mother, the baby and the milk family and the importance of establishing said kinship. Breastfeeding has been historically and presently known as an essential step in the process of growing a healthy baby, as well as a substantial…

States as the only leading nation not to offer paid leave for mothers of newborns. A majority of the rest of the world has paid maternity leave policies. Swaziland and Papua New Guinea are the only other countries that do not. Many other countries give new fathers paid time off or allow parents to share paid leave. My discussion of paid family medical leave, focusing on maternity leave, is in fact addressing the larger matter of improving our society as a whole. When President Bill Clinton…

“In the richest country on earth, no one should force parents to go back to work days or weeks after giving birth.” The Expand Maternity and Paternity Leave Act (EMPLA) provides certain parents with up to fifteen weeks of paid, job-protected leave. The parents or single parent can start their maternity leave seven weeks before their due date and eight weeks after, around 70% of their normal pay. They can extend the leave for another two weeks if the child gets sick or has special needs. The…

time Congress passed the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, many employers had created maternity leave programs. The main reasoning and argument behind the creation of this policy was in response to the increased “feminization” of the work force. (Dobin & Kelly,1999) . As executed and accepted as maternity leave is in every industrial and developed nation across the world, in the United States maternity leave policies were developed as a form of sexual discrimination. By the year 1977, women…