Placenta

A Brief overview of Cerebral Palsy and how it can be classified Cerebral Palsy or CP, is a neurological disability that affects movement, coordination and posture. ‘Cerebral’ refers to the brain and ‘palsy’ refers to a lack of muscle control. CP is a permanent life-long condition caused by damage to the developing brain either during pregnancy, shortly after birth or during a child’s first year of life. CP can affect people in very different ways including their movement, muscle control,…

* spielmeyer Fogt Hergan * * Batten Disease is a degenerative neurological condition that affect people of all ages, particularly between mid childhood and their early twenties. 
 * The most common form of Battens is Juvenile Battens affecting children between 5-25 years. 
 * It was discovered in 1903 Frederick Batten, a British Paediatrician. [22] 
 * Detected when symptoms such as loss of vision and balance, seizures, minor behavioural changes occur. These are often diagnosed as epilepsy or…

This disorder is when someone cannot and never has had the ability to perceive or feel any sort of pain done to their body. People with Congenital Insensitivity to Pain although unable to feel pain, can feel the difference between hot, cold, and dull and sharp, but cannot feel if something is burning them. People with this disorder also have very overt autonomic symptoms, so they tend to show a lot of their actions that are supposed to be involuntary. Congenital Insensitivity is a genetically…

According to Duhaime’s Law Dictionary, the legal definition of death is “irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions and of all functions of the entire brain, including the brainstem.” Furthermore, abortion is “a medical procedure used to end a pregnancy and cause the death of the fetus” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Sadly, there are those who believe that abortion is a woman’s right to her body and that she may do whatever she wants with her body. However, abortion still…

Stressors in adult life, both short- and long-term, can adversely affect mood and behavior, as well as physiological functioning. Because stress, anxiety, and depression have physiological effects it is important to understand how maternal stress responses impact fetal development. Fetal development concerning organizational influences of the nervous system is termed “programming” (Davis et al., 2007). The timing of fetal development in relation to maternal physiological responses influences…

New Law Targets Pregnant Women A healthy mother doesn’t necessary give birth to a healthy child, however, it is still better than a sick mother gives birth to a child with sickness. According to the U.S News, “More than 14 percent of American women take powerful narcotic pain medications during pregnancy (7).” Nevertheless, mothers might do not recognize the effects of what their baby is going through in the womb or afterbirth. Tennessee’s new law states the abuse of drugs during pregnancy is…

There is no clear decision as to when an unborn child has its own rights. Some Mothers do not find out they are pregnant until the fourth or fifth week of pregnancy. Then, there is the matter of letting the Father know, but what if there is no “father”? That is where there are issues whether to abort or not. The Mother has to decide if she is physically and financially stable to raise a child. If it is a teen pregnancy, there is the matter of school, working, money, but most importantly,…

medication can increase risk of suicidal ideation. All patients should be closely monitored for changes in these behaviors and development of suicidal thoughts. Desvenlafaxine is rated FDA pregnancy category C with suggestive risk of drug crossing the placenta in animal studies.5 There is also some evidence that desvenlafaxine is excreted in breast milk. Common adverse reactions for desvenlafaxine are nausea, dry mouth, hyperhidrosis, dizziness, and insomnia.5,6 Because SNRIs may impair platelet…

Readers might ask themselves, how exactly does a child develop Fetal Alcohol Syndrome? First of all, a mother drinks alcohol which is then absorbed into the bloodstream. The alcohol that is present in the bloodstream then gets passed on through the placenta to the baby. Shockingly enough, the baby absorbs the same amount of alcohol as the mother. With this being said, it may come as no surprise that there is not a kind of alcohol that is safe to drink while pregnant. The key word in that phrase…

Abortion is the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end the pregnancy. In terms of biology, abortion is the arrested development an embryo or an organ at a less early stage. Abortion is the termination of an unwanted pregnancy. "In the population of the United States, there are four abortions out of every ten unintended pregnancies and about 1.21 million abortions a year" (incidence).Abortions need to stop; there are many ways to prevent a pregnancy, so abortion does not…