Oxytocin

Many parents come near to reaching Miriam’s mark, but don’t fulfill enough of the guidelines to do so. One example is the baby’s parents, John and Pumla. In Tsotsi, it’s shown that they take care of the baby, have unconditional love for him, provide for him, make an honest living, and have an emotional connection with him. Therefore, they fulfill five out of the seven guidelines. This can be seen throughout the movie. For example, in the final scene when Tsotsi…

Being anxious about seeing a baby being delivered was something I expected of myself, what I didn’t expect was how completely a whole different side of nursing care involved compared to other departments. Throughout the shift I had a chance of assessing the patient and observe the family that was involved. Also had a chance to see not one delivery but two. Unfortunately, I didn’t had much time on going over the chart and documenting the findings as I wanted to. I was surprised to find out…

addition to health and safety risks of choosing a C-section, hospital charges for a cesarean delivery are almost double the cost than a vaginal delivery (Fay Menacker, 2010). Moving away from more natural births, which allow the body to create its own oxytocin instead of applying syntocinon, other drugs and surgeries may prove damaging to the mother and baby. This modernization to reduce pain and stress seems to be detrimental to a natural process that midwifes seem to understand. Menacker…

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 tool is relevant. They didn’t want any component to be deleted or inserted more in the checklist. Few…

growth in the presence of estrogen. This is due to distinct differences in what chemicals testosterone and estrogen activate during fight or flight. Testosterone activates primarily Adrenaline which promotes fight or flight while estrogen activates Oxytocin (Taylor et al. 2000). This reaction tends to encourage a response called tend & befriend in which a person reaches out to another in times of stress, promoting the growth of…

Maternal morbidity includes physical and psychological conditions that affect a woman’s health during pregnancy. Severe complications of pregnancy affect more than 65,000 women in the United States every year (CDC, May 2016). Comparing to the past the number of sever cases is increasing. Some factors that may contribute to the growth are; increase in maternal age, pre-existing chronic medical conditions, and cesarean delivery. In the periods between 2008-2009 an estimated 129 out of 10,000…

the cerebral cortex. LGN allows the signals to go from the optic nerve to process and going to multiple visual places in the cerebral cortex. Hypothalamus maintains the homeostasis regulation for temperature and blood chemistry. It also releases oxytocin and vasopressin to the posterior lobe of the pituitary to send out into the blood. The hindbrain consists of medulla oblongata, pons, and cerebellum. Medulla oblongata regulates and adjusts the blood flow as well as the heart beats. The pons…

DNA is the scientific way to identify oneself, it contains one’s personal roadmap set up for life. However, DNA is not set in stone, environmental factors can alter the gene expression of an individual, this phenomenon is known as epigenetics. Epigenetics is how chemical signals modify genes without changing the overall structure of the DNA sequence. The chemicals that are produced affect which genes are expressed due to environmental factors (Turner). A big factor in a person’s environment is…

He was at a friend’s house consumed alcohol and later took some a large amount of oxytocin. This is not the first time the patient had overdosed on drugs and alcohol. His mother had enrolled him into a drug counseling program months prior to this admission, but he had stop going to his appointments. His father had tried to set him up…

love is not about feeling but that it is a human drive which makes you reproduce? Since I read Fisher’s paper, every time I think about love, I start to remember about those chemicals of the brain that Fisher mention; Norepinephrine, Dopamine, and Oxytocin. The experiment was very interesting for me, I never thought that your mind could reflect love. I always saw love more easily reflect in the heart, never with the chemical in your brain. The hypothesis was a little bit unbeliever at the…