Menstrual cycle

Brooke is a single mother, but she wasn’t a mother by choice. Brooke works at the local Chick-fila making barely minimum wage. Due to her salary, she couldn 't afford birth control, and ended up pregnant when the condom broke. If birth control were cheaper and more accessible Brooke most likely wouldn’t have found herself in this situation. Brooke isn’t alone in this situation, Out of thousand girls twenty-four point four of them had unexpected teen pregnancies in 2014. Although some may believe…

The Science of Menopause Without getting too technical, starting in your late 30s your body will begin to produce less estrogen and progesterone. Thankfully, rather than dropping all at once, these hormone levels begin to gradually decrease over time, so that by your late 40s or early 50s, you are approaching the point when your hormone levels will no longer stimulate menstruation. However, this can mean many years of seemingly inexplicable changes occurring within your body, as it begins to…

I. Introduction Born in the 1960s, Carolyn grew up in a time of changing contemporary standards concerning female sexuality and feminism. The culture in which she was raised informed many behavioral decisions she made throughout mate selection, pregnancy and childrearing. With little ability to compare her own female experiences to those of her somewhat absent mother, Carolyn worked closely with her father, husband and friends to inform herself on life changes she would have to make to…

Did you know that eighty-five million pregnancies worldwide are unintended? (guttmacher) This is an issue because fifty percent of these pregnancies lead to abortion, miscarriage, and unplanned births. "These eighty-five million unintended pregnancies take a serious toll on women, families and ultimately nations, impeding efforts to reduce poverty and spur development," said Sedgh. The question is why are there an abundant amount of unplanned pregnancies? The explanation to this is that many…

The University of Pennsylvania Medical School was founded in 1765 and from the time of its inception, the university was clearly a model based off of the organization and course of instruction at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. The University of Edinburgh Medical School located in Edinburgh, Scotland was founded in 1726. These two schools both required that in order to graduate, a student must submit a dissertation, or final thesis paper, on a topic of their choosing. Most students…

Of the many controversies that have affected the United States in the past 100 years, birth control devices have been one of the more significant. Some common birth control devices are male and female condoms and the birth control pill. Both of these devices protect against pregnancy and the male and female condoms protect against sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and HIV. This arouses the question should teenagers be allowed to obtain these devices without parental consent. The answer is yes.…

control is that it can cause a rise in the user 's blood pressure and that can cause other complications. One of the biggest perks to birth control is being able to have a planned pregnancy. Even women who have a placebo week in their birth control cycle have a 98 to 99 percent prevention of getting pregnant. Every year so many women become pregnant without proper planning ahead of time. The children that are born from unplanned pregnancy are often put up for adoption, or they are born into…

Fetal Development Introduction Fetal development is the growth and maturation of the fetus in utero (Fetal Developmet, 2009). It is divided into three periods: the zygote period, the embryonic period, and the fetal period. In the short span of two-hundred and sixty-six days a single fertilized cell develops into a human newborn infant (Figure 1). Interest has increased in the prenatal period as a staging period for well-being and disease in later life. It has enormous attention devoted to the…

• PCOS carries with it body changes that may be more troubling for a female than the actual cause of these changes. What body changes may affect the female? How does the nurse practitioner address these with the patient? What education and counseling does the nurse practitioner offer? Patients with Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) have a multispecialty hormonal disorder presenting with irregular menses or anovulatory and body changes resulting from signs of hyperandrogenis such as acne,…

the Period Shop which help women not to be ashamed about having their period. This help by having female not be embarrass about things that for natural for them and have them not use pills to try to postpone their period and or mess-up their period cycle and cause trouble to their…