Stillbirth

Gathering evidence from diaries, memoirs, letters, and other contemporary material, Mary Beth Norton examines the impact of the Revolution War had on the women residing in the thirteen colonies from 1750 to 1800. Liberty 's Daughters provides historical evidence of women 's daily lives, domestic activities, marriages, pains of pregnancies, and the difficulties women of this era had in defining a sense of feminine independence before, during, and after the Revolutionary War. Norton takes an…

tuberculosis than the general population. Chronic alcohol use increases your risk of many forms of cancer. Excessive drinking can cause a woman to stop menstruating and become infertile. It also can increase her risk of miscarriage, premature delivery, and stillbirth. Alcohol has a huge effect on fetal development. A range of problems, called fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), can occur. FASD symptoms, which include physical abnormalities, learning difficulties, and emotional problems, can…

Christ. Even before the child is born, it is always a sense of a new beginning and the thought of having new life in the family keeps some hope in the people. When the child is born, the family sends it down the river when they realize it was a stillbirth. When Uncle Noah sends him down the river he says, “Go tell em.” (571-572), as rivers represent new life in literature, one can infer when the baby is found, people will realize something new is coming. Furthermore, the baby of Rose of Sharon…

accused of witchcraft based on their appearance and social status as outcasts. The fear of black magic's prevalence within society caused hundreds of defenseless people to be accused of illegitimate crimes such a causing adultery, miscarriages, and stillbirths by muttering incantations, creating voodoo dolls, and concocting horrible mixtures. Foolproof methods for…

Stem cell research has persisted for decades, and has doubtless produced numerous positive and influential results, namely the replacement and repair of vital organs and tissues in the human body. Indeed, adult stem cell therapy has proceeded largely undisputed in medical procedure. However, embryonic stem cell research, the extraction of stem cells from early stage embryos, has been highly controversial and polarizing. Mainly, ethical concerns have arisen in response to the very concept and…

pregnancy can have many harmful results. Drug use during pregnancy is unsafe for both the fetus and the mother. It is important for pregnant women to be aware of and understand the risks involved in consuming drugs during pregnancy, such as miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm labor, placental abruption, and even maternal death. Risks related to the fetus include premature birth, low birth weight, congenital defects, withdrawal symptoms, and fetal death. Problems later in life, such as learning and…

increases lung cancer in by 25 times in men and 25.7 times in women (CDC.gov). In pregnant woman, smoking could harm the baby inside her womb. Studies reveal that cigarette smoking actually increases the probability of having a low birth weight, stillbirths and sudden infant death syndrome. Over 4,000 chemicals are generated by second-hand smoke and people who are constantly exposed to the fumes are susceptible to serious health problems like bronchitis, emphysema, and breathing problems.…

Fannie Lou Hamer was born Fannie Lou Townsend in Montgomery County, Mississippi on October 6, 1917. She was born into poverty and grew up in a tar-paper shack with a roof patched up with tin, sleeping on a cotton sack stuffed with dry grass. She was the youngest child of twenty, which included fourteen boys and six girls. Her parents, Lou Ella and Jim Townsend, were sharecroppers. Her family moved to Sunflower County, Mississippi in 1919 from the east of the Mississippi Delta to work on the E. W…

There are several genetic variants in the DNA sequence of the ABO gene that give rise to ABO subgroups. The most important of these are the A1 and A2 subgroups, which differ in the activity of their transferase enzyme gene products. The transferase activity in A2 individuals is less efficient in catalyzing the formation of the A antigen from the H antigen compared with those in the A1 subgroup, resulting in lower expression of A antigen. Type A2 individuals have relatively fewer Type I, Type III…

Today as students, reading in our expensive textbooks and attending very costly schools, we seldom get a look into just how hard it must have been to live in a time when every penny counted. The problems experienced then were different to those today. And the problem was not what outfit to wear, but one of ‘Are my only clothes too worn out to wear?’ The 1930s during the Great Depression were very trying years in the United States, a period depicted John Steinbeck’s famous novel, The Grapes of…