The process of birth shouldn't be viewed as a medical procedure. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, and for centuries, they delivered their children without intervention from medical practitioners. ... While Csections are thought by many to be safer than vaginal birth, caesarean actually has many more dangers involved. ... A woman's body is designed to give birth, and have been doing so perfectly fine since the beginning of time. ... The birth process is a natural occurrence, not a medical emergency. ...

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A teratogen is an agent that can cause a birth defect. ... It could be a prescribed medication, a street drug, alcohol use, or a disease present in the mother, which could increase the chance for the baby to be born with a birth defect. About 4 to 5 percent of birth defects are caused by exposure to a teratogen.When during pregnancy can teratogens really cause harm to the fetus?... Alcohol, at any time during the pregnancy, has the potential to cause birth defects and health problems in the baby, since the central nervous system is sensitive to teratogens the entire nine months of gestation. ...

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"Training Traditional Birth Attendants wastes time and resources."" ... Traditional Birth Attendants are often selected by their local communities. ... Family planning A small scale training program for birth attendants in the Sahel was evaluated two years after it had begun. ... Traditionally the attitudes of professional staff to birth attendants has often been negative, which can have the undesirable effect of deterring birth attendants from making referrals early, if at all. ... A biomedical understanding of birth is introduced by focusing on a physiological realm divorced from soci...

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A Mammals Birth And Life. ... For the preparation of birth there is a lot of steps that must be done by the animal. ... For some creatures such as antelopes, birth may simply occur where the female finds herself; with herd animals that are constantly on the move, a precise location for birth is difficult to predict. ... The whole herd may move to an area of good grazing in time for the births. ... Migration prior to the act of giving birth is found in other animals for different reasons. ...

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Since the dawn of human kind, women have been giving birth. ... Who can elect to have a natural birth? What are the implications for promoting home/midwife assisted births? ... Births by midwives went from more than 50% of all births prior to the turn of the century, to 11% in 1935, to 3% in 1953 (Sullivan & Weitz, 1998). ... Even though elective c-sections pose more risks than vaginal birth and the pain of a c-section continues after birth, a...

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Fathers should be more involved in the birthing process and information sharing in the birthing environment. ... The program is aimed at promoting further inclusion with males in the birthing process. ... Using a self-report questionnaire method, roughly 200 men were assessed both prenatal (23 weeks pregnant) and postnatal (3, 6, and 12 months after birth). ... This method of communication by men and for men, indeed acts as a possible aid in helping future fathers to be more included in the process of child birth. ... Fathers should be more involved in the birthing process and information dis...

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If the infants TSH levels were over 9 miu they were called back right away and the others were called back 28 to 35 days after birth. ... If thyroid levels are not properly controlled during pregnancy it could lead to complications such as miscarriage, low birth weight, prematurity, preeclampsia and congenital malformations. ... Uncontrolled hyperthyroidism during pregnancy can lead to congestive heart failure, preeclampsia (dangerous rise in high blood pressure), thyroid storm (sudden, severe worsening of symptoms), miscarriage, premature birth and low birth weight. Some of the same problems ...

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In 1996, the National Counsel on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) did a study indicating that 18 percent of women inmates interviewed had given birth at some time during a past or present prison term (Acoca & Austin, 1998). ... According to the 1996 National Counsel on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) study pregnant incarcerated women also noted that there was, A lack of adequate prenatal and postnatal medical care (obstetrics), lack of prenatal nutrition, lack of adequate levels of methadone maintenance for opiate-dependent pregnant inmates, inadequate education regarding child birth and paren...

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There are a few circumstances that will allow a termination at any time for example, if giving birth would be a risk to the life of the mother or risk that the child were born with physical or mental abnormalities, amongst other reasons. ... The Church of England, Church of Scotland and Methodist church all believe in this, for example, Methodist church believe that "Circumstances which may often justify an abortion are direct threats to the life of the mother, or the probable birth of a severely abnormal child- The Catholic Church has a different viewpoint; they believe in "moral absolute...

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Alcohol exposure in utero is also the number one cause of mental retardation in the United States, and one of the three leading causes of birth defects (CDC,1996). ... The term was coined in 1973 by Jones and Smith, two physicians who were working on the hypothesis that malnutrition in alcoholic women caused birth defects (Bagheri, Burd, Martsolf, & Klug, 1997). ... Usually the child shows weight and/or length below the 10th percentile at birth, with persistent growth lag throughout childhood. ... The first article I looked at was based on the idea that nurses working with young children cou...

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If the object of love is to have the good forever, the function of love is "giving birth in beauty both in body and in mind." (206b) Diotima begins her explanation of how "all human beings are pregnant in body and in mind" (206c) by discussing the concrete, physical pregnancy of the body. ... The ultimate function of love is given to be the labor of the pregnant mind as it attempts to bring forth "what it is suitable for a mind to bear and bring to birth," (209a) namely wisdom and other virtues. ... Diotima says that men who try to gain the immortality they love by fathering children are only ...

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More severe and longer lasting than what is typical for the baby blues, postpartum depression (or PPD) is a period of depression that begins after the birth of a child and lasts for a duration longer than two weeks. PPD is now considered the leading complication of childbirth with up to 19% of all mothers experiencing symptoms ranging from mild to moderate in the first 3 months of following birth (Murray & McKinney, 2010). ... Nurses can be instrumental in detecting these warning signs during the prenatal period, and recognizing signs and symptoms of PPD following birth. ... It is importa...

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An annual survey conducted on prenatal cocaine exposure, has indicated that the usage of cocaine during child birth is extensive. ... The complications from cocaine exposure has exhibited multitudes of defects to the fetus such as low birth weight, deficiency in length, malformation of the fetus, still birth, small head circumference and untimely birth during pregnancy (Schiller, C., & Allen. (2005) ,there is also a high mortality rate from prenatal cocaine exposure or sudden abortion. ... Also a separate study showed that, the language of children six years and nine and a half years language ...

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The work that they were performing can be physically and emotionally draining and they did not want the counselors to burn out. (234-235) In the article Effects of redesigned community postnatal care on womens" health 4 months after birth: a cluster randomised controlled trial, there were not very many qualitative techniques used. ... Quantitative Techniques: In all of the articles except for Effects of redesigned community postnatal care on womens" health 4 months after birth: a cluster randomised controlled trial, there were very few if any quantitative techniques used. ... (Lieberman...

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For example, when pro-choice activist support abortions due to unwanted pregnancies, the activists are not rallying behind the idea of sexual incompetence, sometimes pregnancies due to lack of birth control. ... If a child born with congenital disease, will tend to live a live full of suffering, and in other cases might die after birth. ...

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The author was playing the role of an assistant to Monique, who was an excellent midwife in Namposella, a town commonly known for women giving birth on concrete slab and after a few hours, they return to their normal roles. ... This is because the author claims that women give birth on a concrete slab and after some few hours, they resume their normal routines. The rate of infant and maternal mortality is also high in the region because the author claims that one in every twelve women dies when giving birth while one in every five children do not live to celebrate their fifth birthday. ...

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Women across the world often consider the grueling process of childbirth to be the hardest thing in life women have to deal with. While this may be true, the aftereffects of pregnancy are, in many ways, more traumatic than the actual process. Postpartum depression is an important psychological obsta...

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Coles also states that one in one-hundred children prenatally exposed to alcohol will suffer from at least one type of alcohol related birth defect (Coles 39). ... If substance use during pregnancy is made illegal, the cases of children born with harmful birth defects associated with drug and alcohol exposure will drastically decline. ...

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The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 was enacted to protect pregnant women against various types of discrimination in employment (Riede, 1997). In terms of discrimination, pregnant women faced various acts owing to their state of being pregnant. Such acts includes failure to secure employment or...

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