The Pregnancy Discrimination Act specifically touched on hiring and work conditions, pregnancy and maternity leave, temporary disability, health insurance and equal access to benefits. ... Temporary Disability and Pregnancy When a woman is temporary not able to perform their tasks owing to pregnancy, the employer is required to treat her in the same manner as the temporary or permanently disabled employees in the organization (Grossman, 2010). ... Insurance and Equal Benefits The act specifies that employers should extend a medical insurance that covers pregnancy. ... The Pregnancy Discrimina...

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Seventy-seven of the mothers had Graves' Disease or Hashimoto's Disease before pregnancy, only one mother developed Graves' Disease during pregnancy. ... Hyperthyroidism in pregnancy is usually caused by Graves' Disease. Hypothyroidism in pregnancy is usually caused by Hashimoto's Disease. ... The article also explains the types of treatments/medications for each type of thyroid disease during pregnancy. ... They reviewed the cases of 6,941 women with Graves' Disease and the pregnancy outcome of 6,744 women was known. ...

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It is usually something in the environment that the mother may be exposed to during her pregnancy. ... 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?... There are some organ systems that are sensitive to teratogens throughout the entire pregnancy, such as the central nervous system. ... Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) Phenytoin (Dilantin) Varicella (Chickenpox)Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a group of abnormalities in babies born to mothers who consume alcohol during pregnancy. ... This syndrome...

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Despite the common knowledge that drug and alcohol use during pregnancy is harmful to an unborn child, many pregnant woman choose to use drugs and alcohol throughout the duration of their pregnancy. ... According to Zivi, a woman was not criminally charged with child abuse resulting from the use of crack cocaine during her pregnancy until 1987. ... Using drugs and alcohol during pregnancy is both physically and psychologically harmful to an unborn child. ... If a woman chooses not to legally abort her pregnancy, that woman is obligated to ensure the unborn child's safety both inside and ...

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A typical North-American father's experience of pregnancy tends to be more stress related and carries with it feelings of incompetence. ... Boyce, Condon, Barton, and Corkindale (2007) found that fathers who had insufficient information about pregnancy and childbirth were at risk of being distressed, suggesting that more attention needs to be paid to providing information to men about their partner's pregnancy, childbirth and issues relating to caring for a newborn. ... Using a cross-sectional study method, researchers conducted semi-structured interviews of men experiencing the last...

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A Mammals Birth And Life. Almost all female animals modify their lifestyles or patterns of behaviour prior to giving birth; in those species where pair-bonding persists beyond conception, both partners may be involved. These changes may be subtle and hard to distinguish until the later stages of ...

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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. ... Congenital defects, is when deformities within the baby are detected during an early stage of pregnancy. ... Economics can also include cases such as teen age pregnancies The anti-abortionists have numerous reasons for their beliefs, and many of them are attached to their religion ideals. Religious ideals, range from having an abortion before 120 days after the pregnancy, such as in I...

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No matter whether a pregnancy is planned and long-anticipated, or virtually unexpected, parents are often overwhelmed with a myriad of powerful emotions. ... PPD is more likely to occur in first time mothers but can develop after any pregnancy, and new research is suggests that men can be afflicted as well. There is no single cause of PPD but factors that are known to increase the risk include depression during pregnancy, or a history of PPD with a previous pregnancy, first pregnancy, fatigue, hormonal fluctuations, medical complications associated with the pregnancy, personal or family h...

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Purpose If women didn't drink alcohol during pregnancy, there would never be another baby born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). ... Background FAS is a medical diagnosis that refers to a specific cluster of anomalies associated with the use of alcohol during pregnancy. ... It is generally accepted in the medical community that the severity of fetal abnormalities seen in children with FAS is directly correlated with the amount and duration of the mothers drinking during pregnancy. ... An important way that FAS can be prevented is the development of better screening techniques to ...

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Yet somehow, in the relatively recent past, the 'business' of childbirth, labour and pregnancy was taken from the hands of the women, and placed in the gloved hands of the medical establishment. ... They realized that their technology was not enough, and that they had to change the meaning of pregnancy and labour. ... Many women entrust their pregnancy into their doctors' hands, because they are the experts. ... High-tech, high intervention treatment distorts the human experience of pregnancy and childbirth and can expose women and babies to many unnecessary, intrusive and pote...

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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 shift to the abstract "pregnancy of the mind" hinges on the extension of this analogy to the mind and knowledge, saying that it grows old and must be replaced just like the body (207e ­ 208a). This implies the existence of conceptual children as well as physical ones, and Diotima gives an example of ...

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The incarceration of pregnant women should focus not only on the inmates unique physical and mental needs during their pregnancy but their status as mothers after the child is born-and most crucial the children themselves who are severed from their mothers. ... (Sacks, 1997) In order for these alternative programs to work effectively we must first understand that pregnancy during incarceration is a high-risk situation both medically and psychologically for both inmate mothers and their children. ... However, other pregnancy related risks come directly from the correctional policies and e...

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Many of these physicians enjoy working with women while they go through their pregnancy and childbirth. ... Also, prenatal screening and testing are done during first and second trimester of a woman's pregnancy (Development of Prenatal). Surgical techniques such as ultrasounds are important in a woman's pregnancy. ... Even though prenatal care and ultrasounds are important to a woman's prregnancy, Gynecology is also a huge aspect to the pregnancy. ...

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While this may be true, the aftereffects of pregnancy are, in many ways, more traumatic than the actual process. ... Many physicians, with little knowledge of the female mind and body, created complex theories arguing the pregnancy was the source of women's inferiority. ...

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With c sections women risk decreased fertility, increased chance of miscarriage in further pregnancies and a higher chance of having to give birth by caesarean in future pregnancies ( C Section Aftershock). ...

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According to the law in the U.K "Two doctors must agree that termination of the pregnancy is necessary". ... This tells us that God knew and loved us before we were born, meaning that if a foetus was aborted at any time during the pregnancy it would still be killing one of God's children. ...

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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. ... Cocaine infusion during pregnancy has also caused deformity to the auditory system of the fetus. ... Maternal use of cocaine during the late stage of pregnancy can cause cardiovascular problems to the neonate. ... Researchers also fou...

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Let me emphatically state at the outset of this short blog: I have always thought the elective termination of pregnancy (ETOL) was a serious moral issue. ... Finally, to make matters worse, those who support actions that relegate women to second-class citizens compound the problem by also being opposed to measures that would reduce unwanted pregnancies, such as sex education and access to contraception. ...

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An evaluation describing the success of a training programme in Nigeria found that in contrast to the trained attendants, none of the untrained TBAs offered any of the following (Akpala 1994:46): Maternal and Child Health services: antenatal care, Advice on immunization of children or their mothers during pregnancy. ... Many women fear caesarean sections and will deliberately limit their food intake during pregnancy because they equate smaller babies with easier deliveries. Our initial reaction to this might be one of horror because this would be unheard of in our western culture whe...

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