...Toivonen once said, “Some days you just need to breathe, believe, trust and step back to witness the incredible strength of your tiny miracle….” The most common infant health issue in America is the birth of premature babies, which have many short term and long term effects on an infant and mother. Imagine awaiting one's little miracles, and having to experience the complications of a premature birth. A staggering 15 million babies are born premature each year around the world. Of that number, 1 million of those infants die due to complications. Premature birth is defined as “ a birth that takes place more than three weeks before the baby is due” (mayoclinicstaff). The normal gestational period for a full term pregnancy...
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...T D Module 4 Assignment: Understanding Childbirth and Newborn Development 1. Describe the stages of childbirth and the outcome of each. There are three stages of childbirth; the dilation and effacement of the cervix, the delivery of the baby, and the delivery of the placenta. During the first stage called the dilation and effacement of the cervix, the woman experiences contractions of her uterus which in return causes her cervix to widen and prepare to receive the baby. In addition, the mother experiences a brief process called transition where the contractions are at the highest level. This entire stage can last between 12 to 14 hours if it is the women’s first child or 4 to 6 hours if she has had multiple births. The second stage of childbirth also known as the delivery of the baby can last between 20 to 50 minutes depending on the woman. Within the second stage the level of contractions continue to increase and the mother feels a natural impulse to squeeze and push using her stomach muscles to force the baby down and out the birth canal. The last stage of childbirth is when the mother feels the final contraction which in return forces the placenta to detach from the walls of the uterus and out the body. This third and final stage of childbirth can last between five and 10 minutes. 2. Compare and contrast the medical interventions for childbirth. During childbirth medical professionals tend to use medical interventions in order to safely deliver the baby...
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...that, regardless of what a few individuals may trust, premature birth is neither right nor off-base. It is the matter of an individual assessment, where, every side can say with conviction that the other one isn't right. The inquiry remains, ought to premature birth be lawful? In spite of the fact that some may differ on this point, the truth of the matter is that sanctioned premature birth is the best way to secure...
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...providing the care for babies when they are first born. Neonatal nursing has many education requirements, an outstanding job outlook, as well as great benefits. Neonatal nurses care for newborns for the first 28 days of the babies’ lives, the children’s most helpless stage. Nurses specialized in this field are required to focus not just on healthy infants, but also on ill or premature babies. They monitor the condition of babies, check for signs of distress, and manage medication when necessary. Neonatal nurses are also responsible for providing all kinds of basic care, like changing diapers and feeding babies. “A neonatal intensive care unit often caters to babies with complex medical needs. Invasive treatments like ventilation, repeated blood sampling, invasive catheters are common. Caring for very sick neonates is compounded by the uncertainty that surrounds the immediate outcomes (survival) and the long-term outcomes (disabilities, quality of life and the need for continual medical care including repeated hospitalizations)” (Lyons, Susan K). There are three different levels at which neonatal nurses work in. Level 1 consists of those who take care of healthy infants, while those in Level 2 care for ill or premature newborns. Neonatal nurses responsible for treating cruelly ill babies work at Level 3. They work in the...
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...Studies A child Is born Arvo Ylppö was born 27th October 1887 in Akaa, as the fifth child out of twelve. Almost every child at that time was delivered at home. Children were not measured and weighted at that time, but Arvo himself estimated himself, at birth that he was a small child with a weight under two kilograms. Relatives had been waiting for him to come to the world because there had been no boys in the house, ”just girls”. Manpower was needed at the farm due to heavy work by hand. The rest of the family spoiled the kid and he got a lot of attention. Arvo was an active boy often teasing his sisters. There were several accidents in Ylppös’ family. One fell from a high tree, and another hit himself with an axe. When things like that happened, Arvo remembered how his mother was worried and sad about her children and the atmosphere was spread around in the house. The medical officer, Kalle Pelkonen, was called to help. At that point, Arvo made his decision about his future career. ”To be able to help my mother I made, already as a child, the decision to study pediatrics so that mother would not have to phone Dr Pelkonen for advice all the time”. Through itinerant school to elementary school The quick-witted and imaginative Arvo did not always fulfill the expectations of a nice child. At that time, the conception of how a child should behave was: talk when you are asked to, otherwise do not bother to exaggerate yourself. Because of this, his parents did not dare to send...
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...They inform you how the first two weeks of prenatal growth is called the germinal period. During this stage the zygote cell that they talked about in chapter three multiples in one hundred plus cells that forms into placenta and embryo. During the third through eighth week after being pregnant is the embryonic period where the baby starts to form. When it gets to its final week the baby has organs and regular human features. After the eight week it’s the fetal period into the baby is born. If a baby is born before the twenty-sixth week then the baby is considered a premature baby and is high risk. The average full term baby weights seven in the half pounds. During the birth process the human woman has contractions that push the baby out the uterus and vagina. Medicine helps through the birth process a lot it can induce the woman, save lives, and help reduce the pain. Although many do not agree with the medicine and will rather have a natural birth I would choose the medicine anytime I could not imagine going through the pain without any help. There are many complications you can have when you are pregnant that can harm the woman or/ and the child. This chapter goes into detail about some. Fathers paly a huge role in the child life not only when their already born...
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...PLEASE READ THIS FIRST PAGE CAREFULLY. IT SHOULD BE DELETED WHEN YOU SUBMIT YOUR OUTLINE FOR GRADING. General Rationale This document contains the template for the preparation outline, which is required for your formal speaking assignments in this course. This document is intended to guide you and save you time in formatting your assignment correctly. Please use this template to create your outlines, paying careful attention to the expectations required for your assignment. General Writing Style 1. The entire outline, including the thesis statement, should be written in complete sentences. 2. The general purpose should be one of the four generally identified: to inform, to persuade, to entertain, or to commemorate. 3. The specific purpose should be written as a more detailed infinitive phrase. (An infinitive phrase begins with to added to a verb and an object. Here is an example: “To apply for a scholarship.”) 4. Questions should not appear on the outline; instead, you should use the space to answer such questions or to explain the reasoning behind your inquiry. You do not want to leave your professor doubting whether you know your material. You may, however, ask questions when you actually deliver the presentation. 5. When using research for subpoints and sub-subpoints, you should write enough of your interpretation of what the point means to demonstrate to your professor your understanding of the source. Use parenthetical citations to indicate which...
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...remarkably similar personalities. Conversely, children who share a home and are raised in the same environment can grow up to have astonishingly different personalities than one another. Despite these challenges, researchers have uncovered convincing links between parenting styles and the effects these styles have on children. During the early 1960s, psychologist Diana Baumrind conducted a study on more than 100 preschool-age children (Baumrind, 1967). Using naturalistic observation, parental interviews and other research methods, she identified four important dimensions of parenting: * Disciplinary strategies * Warmth and nurturance * Communication styles * Expectations of maturity and control Based on these dimensions, Baumrind suggested that the majority of parents display one of three different parenting styles. Further research by also suggested the addition of a fourth parenting style (Maccoby & Martin, 1983). The Four Parenting Styles 1. Authoritarian Parenting In this style of parenting, children are expected to follow the strict rules established by the parents. Failure to follow such rules usually results in punishment. Authoritarian parents fail to explain the reasoning behind these rules. If asked to explain, the parent might simply reply, "Because I said so." These parents have high demands, but are not responsive to their children. According to Baumrind, these parents "are obedience- and status-oriented, and expect their orders to be obeyed without...
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...Ryan and Megan’s Story A. Ryan mentioned a semen discharge. What four glands contribute to semen? a. Seminal fluid is a liquid that consist of secretions of the seminiferous tubules, seminal vesicles, prostate and bulbourethral glands. B. One reliable birth control method that Ryan is unlikely to select at this time in his life is a vasectomy. What is a vasectomy and what happens to a man’s sperm after the procedure? A vasectomy is a surgery that cuts the vas deferens, which is the tube that carries sperm from the testicles to the urethra. After a successful vasectomy sperm is unable to travel out of the testes. C. Why do sperms have at most 48 hours to live after ejaculation? a. The middle piece contains mitochondria arranged in a spiral, which provide ATP for locomotion of the sperm to the secondary oocyte and for sperm metabolism. Seminal fluid is alkaline and the inside of the female vagina is acidic causing destruction of the sperm. They are usually unable to live in the acidic environment for more than 48 hrs. D. Megan is hoping to become pregnant someday. When the day comes, in which part of her body would fertilization of her secondary oocyte likely occur? a. Fertilization usually occurs in the uterine tubes after ovulation has occurred. This usually takes place in the ampulla of the uterine tube. E. How could damage to Megan’s uterine tubes complicate fertilization or pregnancy? a. If there is scar tissue as a result of infections,...
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...Developing Through The Life Stages Conception - This is where it all begins, a female becomes fertile and releases one egg cell each month, it then travels from the ovary to the uterus, in the fallopian tube. if sexual intercourse takes place while the egg is in the fallopian tube and the male has an orgasm millions of sperm will ejaculate inside of the woman. All it takes is one sperm to fertalise an egg this is when the sperm attaches to the egg and a new life is created. Sometimes its not as easy as it seems to be, many eggs are lost due to the woman not knowing that fertilistaion has even taken place. Pregnancy - Pregnancy has three trimesters which last for 40 weeks, not all pregnancy's can last for this long as some people may have premature babies or the baby may be over due which means there still in the uterus longer than usual. This all begins when the sperm penetrates the egg, the single fertilized egg then begins to divide. After a couple of days there will be a lot of new cells which then travels to the uterus . The collection of new cells is called an Embryo, the Embryo will then grow into a baby. After three/four months of pregnancy the mother will be able to have her first scan to see how the baby is doing, after five months another scan is needed and the sex of the gender can be revealed or kept as a secret depending on what the parents decide. If the mother gives birth to the baby before nine months the baby is then called 'premature' some babies are put in...
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...Gretchen Lang Ethics Paper Does a Fetus Have Human Rights? Brain death of a pregnant mother is a very unlikely scenario. Between 1982 and 2010, there were only 19 reported cases of maternal brain death.(Farragher) However, controversy arises when faced with this rarity. Even though some may believe that preserving the mother’s body is unethical, the decisions regarding the fetus should be made by the mother or next of kin, unless the fetus is past twenty-four weeks of gestation, because of ethical dilemmas, the presence of mother’s rights, fetal rights and viability. One ethical dilemma presented is the controversial issue of preserving the fetus with no regard to the mother’s body; treating her body like a medical experiment. In the case of long-term life support, the body will begin to deteriorate and look more corpse-like over time since machines are providing the primary functions of the body. This process can be very upsetting and disturbing for the family to witness. With this being said, there have actually been several cases in which a healthy, viable child was delivered after prolonged life support.(Farragher) In these cases, the mother or family stated that they wanted to continue life support. This sheds light on the fact that a fetus has rights and due to fetal viability, should be able to live. Therefore, this process may only be disturbing if the family believes the mother would not want to be on life support. Most mothers want to protect their children...
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...[10] Four stages of hypercapnic chronic respiratory failure are typically described: Stage 1, sleep disordered breathing without hypercapnia; Stage 2, sleep disordered breathing with hypercapnia during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep; Stage 3, with hypercapnia during REM and Non-REM sleep; and Stage 4, diurnal hypercapnia. [10,11,12,13,14] At Stage 4, mean survival is less than 12 months without respiratory support. [15] Intellectual disability Intellectual disability is seen in 30% of boys with DMD, with the average intelligence quotient (IQ) being 85, normally distributed one standard deviation below the population norms. [16,17,18] Verbal IQ is more impaired than performance IQ. [16,19] Intellectual disability is not correlated with the severity of weakness. [16,20,21] Boys with DMD also have a higher incidence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [22,23] Orthopedic...
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...Santa Maria National High School Santa Maria, Laguna The Impact of Abortion to the Physical and Psychological Behavior of a Woman Presented to: Mrs. Lorena H. Bernardino Presented by: Sinag, Ma. Victoria C. English IV 16 February 2015 Sinag i Sinag i Outline Thesis statement: Physical changes and psychological implication of aborting pregnancy of women. I. What is the Abortion? A. Meaning of abortion B. Origin of abortion C. Method of aborting D. Types of abortion E. What drive a woman to abort their pregnancy? II. After Effects of Abortion A. Physical B. Psychological III. Prevention to reduce abortion A. Good Policies B. Good Politics IV. Conclusion V. Bibliography Sinag 1 Sinag 1 The Impact of Abortion to the Physical and Psychological Behavior of a Woman Introduction Many women, not only in the Philippines aborting their pregnancy because of economical or financial factor. In this study the researchers aiming to give information what is the physical and psychological behavior implication of aborting pregnancy. What is the process of abortion and reasons why a women needs to abort their pregnancy. In this study, the researcher also sited some prevention to avoid women pregnancy abortion, especially in the Philippines. Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by the removal or forcing out from the womb of a fetus or embryo before it is able to...
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...one through twelve of a pregnancy. During week one of pregnancy, the egg and sperm join to make a cell called a zygote. The zygote divides multiple times and the bunch of cells move towards the uterus. Then during the second week the dividing zygote, now called a blastocyst, goes into the uterus and burrows into the side of it. During week three, part of the blastocyst will develop into the placenta that will help provide the baby with nutrients. It will also produce a hormone called HCG that will stop the woman’s menstrual period and make the body produce increased levels of estrogen and progesterone hormones that will begin growth of the placenta. The fully formed placenta will be the life support system for the baby (Dattel 13). In week four, the heart and lungs of the baby will begin developing, and the baby will have a heartbeat (14). By week five the baby is approximately 0.5 inches long, and the arms and legs will appear as short stumps. At the time of week six the baby’s heart is beating eighty times per minute. The nose, mouth, and ears are also beginning to form. During week seven, the bones start forming but are not hard. Fingers and toes are present and genitals start to develop. Eyelids also form but stay closed. By week eight, all major organs and body systems have started developing and brain cells begin connecting (15). In week nine,...
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...the ties that bind people to society. Identify and discuss the elements of the social bond and how they impede crime. Hirshi links the onset of criminality to weakening of the ties that bind people to society. He assumes that all individuals are potential law violators, but most are kept under control because they fear that illegal behavior ill damage their realationships with friends, family, neighbors, teachers, and employers. Without these social bonds, or ties, a person is free to commit criminal acts. Across all ethnic, religious, racial, and social groups, people whose bond to society is weak may fall prey to criminogenic behavior patterns. Hirschi argues that the social bond a person maintains with society is disvided into four main elements: attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief. 3. Discuss the key points of labeling theory and the consequences of labeling, Include in your discussion the concepts of primary and secondary deviance. The labeling theory has 3 points, Behaviors that are considered criminal are highly subjective, Crime is defined by those in power, and not only acts are labeled but also people. According to Lemert, Primary deviance involves norms violations or crimes that have little influence on the actor and can be quickly forgotten. In contrast,...
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