Uterus

amniocentesis, samping of the amniotic fluid with a needle into the uterus to screen for developmental abnormalities. However, this technique does not provide treatment, but the option to terminate the pregnancy. For those who want to select against a disease without terminating the pregnancy, the technique offered is preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) of embryos created in vitro fertilization (IVF). This can be implanted in a woman’s uterus which involved prenatal diagnosis of fertilized…

trimester rather than earlier in the pregnancy. The simple explanation to this is that the weight of the fetus, uterus, and all of the fluid can potentially cut off the blood supply to the baby and the mother (Loeb). To go more in depth, the body’s biggest veins that transports blood back to the heart from every part of the body that is below the chest (Loeb). This vein runs beneath the uterus and as the baby grows bigger, laying flat on your back can cause this vein to collapsed from all the…

Abortion causes many different problems. A woman who goes to a clinic and has her baby aborted is at risk for psychological trouble. Post-traumatic stress disorder sometimes develops when a terrifying event happens. Though a woman that has an abortion is probably pro-choice, that does not change the fact that abortions are very frightening. Even though the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, the federal government still restricts a lot of funding for it. Like Shimabukuro (2015)…

generally last at least thirty seconds and can feel like period cramps or intermittent lower back pain. Here’s how to tell if you are having a contraction: place your fingertips on your abdomen, on the front or on the sides. If you can feel your uterus tightening and relaxing, those are contractions. You won’t feel tightening in your abdomen with round ligament pain. If you are before 37 weeks and are having contractions that don’t go away with resting or with drinking a glass or two of…

Pro-Choice activists declare that it is their women’s rights to do what they want with their body. But one thing they are not seeing is what choice does the child living inside of them have? Even if you do not believe abortion is murder, it still demeans the value of human life. Abortion is simply an inhumane way to discard of one’s responsibilities; it is a deliberate termination and expulsion of a human pregnancy. Many women across the country do not even know how an abortion is processed.…

Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide, and accounts for nearly one-quarter of all maternal deaths (World Health Organization, 2012). Unfortunately, resulting in the most significant birth complications, and research has found that incidences are increasing (Ford, Shand, & Roberts, 2013). A major cause of PPH is uterine atony and the prolongation of third stage (Kashanian, Fekrat, Masoomi, & Ansari, 2010). Consequentially, active…

65), it simply just doesn’t apply in the case of Ashley because due to her condition, she has never been a competent individual. For that reason, Ashley’s parents’ decision to administer her with a high-dose of estrogen to remove her breast buds and uterus is based on the best interest standard because their sole purpose was to maintain their daughter in the least amount of “discomfort and boredom” possible. According to Beauchamp and Childress, a decision based on best interest is an…

A company called Butterfly Network won clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for the Butterfly iQ, a portable ultrasound system. The scanning system consists of a portable transducer or probe, a device that converts one energy to another, which connects to an iPhone, and an iOS app to display the images and control the settings. Butterfly iQ has an ultra-wideband matrix array that enables three different transducers to be used. It allows clinicians to perform various scans that can…

Melampus spoke of the women’s madness as derived from their uterus being poisoned by venomous humors, due to a lack of orgasms and “uterine melancholy” Thus arose the idea of a female madness related to the lack of a normal sexual life: Plato, in Timaeus, argues that the uterus is sad and unfortunate when it does not join with the male and does not give rise to a new birth, and Aristotle and Hippocrates were of the…

Abortion is a controversial subject that has been talked about for a long time now. People have very strong opinions towards abortion. Even though this is the case, I believe people should speak about it because it is something that should not be done. Women should not be allowed to perform abortions because they are killing an innocent child and will suffer immediate and long term effects. According to the American Pregnancy Association there are three different types of surgical abortion…