Pregnancy

Teen Pregnancy Imagine having to make it as a teen parent on your own sounds scary right, well being a teen parent isn’t really cracked up what it all suppose to be, You wont believe how many single teen mothers and teen fathers there are that don’t get to graduate from high school. Teen pregnancy is emerging issue because some teen moms don’t get to graduate nor do they get to finish college because they are busy having to take care of their babies, and while having to worry about taking…

Pregnant”. This show documenting your women’s lives as they come to a close on their unexpected pregnancies and the delivery of their new lives. Making teen pregnancy look glamorous and fun. Putting a mask on the real issue. The purpose of the television show was to prevent teen pregnancy, further more, painting a perfect picture of how little the lives of these young girls have changed. However, making teen pregnancy look fun/easy, glamorous and not life changing is nothing but deceiving.…

Stages of pregnancy Weeks 1-3: The female hormone oestrogen will trigger a women’s uterus so it forms a thick blood-rich lining of tissue. The other female hormone progesterone will begin to prepare the uterus so it can support a fertilised egg and accommodate the growing baby over the next few months. During this time, the woman’s ovaries will also ripen the eggs in follicles (sacs filled with fluid). Ovulation This is a part of the menstrual cycle where the woman’s ovaries release an…

Teen Pregnancy Teenagers are always looking to follow the newest trends -- particularly the girls--. The newest and most popular one is one that doesn’t force girls to squeeze themselves into skinny jeans or waste money on a new pair of jordans. What is it? Hollywood’s newest and latest trend, babies. Teenaged girls instead of going out and having fun with their friends are now spending all their time at home taking care of their own children. Many people think this a bad thing but I have to…

Pregnancy Week 17 Week 17 and you are by now [pretty comfortable with the idea of being pregnant, given that you have undergone it all, the symptoms, the crucial phase, tests and all that matters! While the maternity wear are fitting you well in this week, you look pretty much like a pregnant lady than a lady who is just overeating her heart out and also feel the baby inside you with a lot more confidence! Thus, at the continual of the third tri semester, you would very well be surprised to know…

You are a few days away from finally meeting your baby. Most doctors and hospitals in India do not let the pregnancy continue beyond 41 weeks. After all the parameters of gestation period are checked, doctors continue to monitor the cervix for signs of ‘ripening’. If the cervix begins to thin out, then labor is generally induced through the membrane sweep. If all labor inducing methods fail, then a Caesarian section is the only way to safely deliver the baby. (Read our article on Caesarian…

Natural Remedies for Pregnancy Back Pain Back pain is one of the problems that most expectant ladies usually experience. During pregnancy, there is a tendency to gain weight naturally, and as the pregnancy hormones relax the ligaments, joints and muscles, a lot of strain is experienced at the back leading to back pains. Lower pregnancy back pain is the predominant type of back pain that most ladies experience during this period. In some occasions, there may be discomfort between the breasts, the…

Pregnancy :A life changing event BOOM! Boom, boom! It was the sound of my heart racing. I could never forget this one particular day. On May 2, 2008 while I was working the strangest feelings started to come over me. It was feelings that I had never felt before. My heart was racing. My palms were sweaty and vomit flew into the air. After, I had experienced all those different symptoms, I knew I was pregnant. Pregnancy is a life changing event. Pregnancy can change women lives…

Evidence Based Practice Review The article, “Adherence of antidepressants during pregnancy”, addresses medication management and compliance during pregnancy by comparing three methods: Pill count, Beliefs about Medication Questionnaire (BMQ) and Blood Level Monitoring (BLM) with the Medication Event Monitoring system (MEMS). The presented evidence submits that nonadherence with medication is a shared dilemma in pregnant women. Moreover, distinctive consideration is necessitated and utmost to…

I chose to write my paper on the chapter two context involving a friend ordering alcohol while in the second trimester of her pregnancy. Many people believe that a glass of wine every now and then is not a bad thing to do during pregnancy, even some doctors say that it is tolerable. It may not be worst possible thing to ingest while pregnant, but in your second trimester the baby is still developing crucial parts of the body and the bones are becoming more dense. I think avoiding substances like…