Placenta

occurs when the uterus has more blood than the regular monthly period. These anayulatory cycles can have many causes. To begin, a common cause is pregnancy. Abnormal bleeding related to pregnancy can exist in ectopic pregnancy, spontaneous abortion, placenta previa, and abruption. Another cause may occur due to complications in the genital…

Early Childhood Development covers a large array of topics ranging from contraception methods all the way to the way toddlers behave and why. The class is very informative and beneficial to anyone who is considering a career involving children or people who have any desire to become parents. Through this class I have learned a great deal about kids ranging from infants to toddlers and their development as well as it what it takes to be a parent and how parents’ actions affect their children. The…

Do people consider a fetus to be a human or just an egg that has not yet fully evolved into one? When speaking of a fetus legally it is considered to be another member to society. The second a fetus is fertilized it has the right to life. Though abortion has not yet been banned, laws still have some sort of involvement when women decide to undergo abortion. Abortion is one of the most complex situation when falling into the prolife/prochoice debate. Prolife can be defined as the baby must be…

What I Learned Today I worked antenatal and postpartum. I had a good day and learned a lot from Melissa. I was able to assist in a discharge and assess a patient with a history of PIH and hypothyroidism. I also performed a baby bath and postpartum assessments. I assessed a patient who is high-risk because of a history of fetal demise. And although she was seemed okay she stayed for twenty-four hour surveillance because she had to decelerations in antenatal. My patient had right-sided…

I recently stated that alcohol and most drugs cross the placenta and affect the fetus. Alcohol use during pregnancy has been found to be the leading preventable cause of mental disabilities in children in the United States (Maier & West, 2001). Excessive maternal drinking while pregnant can cause fetal alcohol…

Second degree heart block Second degree heart block is when "electrical signals between the atria and ventricles are slowed to a large degree, some signals don’t reach the ventricles" (Nihgov, 2016). This can be seen in a pattern or it may be random, it can also come and go, this is known as a "dropped heartbeat." There are two categories in second degree heart block, one is worse than the other and rarer. The more common type of second degree heart block is type I, also known as wenckebach's…

2015). Smoking raises the risk of both early miscarriage and stillbirth, with the dangerous chemicals in cigarettes often to blame (Carlson, 2011). Smoking during pregnancy has also been linked with many health problems, including problems with the placenta, a reduction in birth weight, preterm premature rupture of the membranes — when the amniotic sac leaks or breaks before week 37 of pregnancy, premature birth, certain birth defects, pregnancy loss (Laughlin-Tommaso, 2015). Smoking during…

Lau et al, (2006), found that the artificial sweetener aspartame and flavour enhancer L-glutamic acid can act as a form of neurotoxin that could potentially destroy central neurons. These two chemicals overstimulate the postsynaptic excitatory membrane receptor, leading to higher level of neurite inhibition, which can be a potential risk factor for ADHD. Also the overstimulation of NMDA receptor is often associated with mood disorder like depression (McCarthy et al., 2012). Lau and colleagues’…

Insulin Receptor Introduction Insulin receptor (IR) is a transmembrane receptor, an important member to a large family of tyrosine kinase receptor proteins. Endogenous ligands such as insulin, IGF-1 (Insulin-like growth factor-1) and IGF-2 (Insulin-like growth factor-2) bind to this receptor to carry out major physiological and metabolic functions. INSR (Insulin Receptor) gene encodes a preproprotein that is proteolytically processed in our body to form a functional heterotetrameric insulin…

Did you know that humans have 12 human major body systems? The 12 body systems are the integumentary, lymphatic and immunity, skeletal, nervous, cardiovascular, endocrine, muscular, respiratory, digestive, urinary, female reproduction system, male reproduction system. The function of the integumentary system is to protect body and help to change temperature for body temperature in climates such as hot and cold weathers. The function of the lymphatic and immunity system is the interstitial fluid…