...KANGAROO MOTHER CARE POLICY INTRODUCTION Millions of low birth weight (weight less than 2500gms) infants are born every year, mostly in undeveloped countries. The cause is either impaired preterm growth or premature birth. They commit to a high rate of the newborn death rate. In undeveloped countries, the rate of low birth weight babies is too high and modern technology is not present or there is the absence of skilled staff. Under such conditions, LBW infants are more prone to hospital-acquired infections, hypothermia. However, kangaroo mother care is easy and effective policy to compensate for hypothermia and to protect baby from nosocomial infections. Kangaroo mother care is caring for premature babies include skin to skin contact with...
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...to discuss a serious topic that is happening to mothers around the world. Mothers in California and the United States, deal with the problem of unpaid maternity or family leave. Mothers in certain jobs don’t get the rightful benefit or proper pay of maternity leave. Some mothers have to gather enough sick time to get maternity leave, and that just doesn’t seem right. With the pay that you get from state disability, many can barely pay the medical bills that come with a pregnancy and on top of that the amount of money it takes to buy food and clothing for the baby. Therefore, mothers on maternity leave should get a reasonable amount of pay, rather than saving up sick time or not getting paid at all. Roughly 12% of women in the United States get paid maternity leave, that leaves around 88% of women without paid leave. Women should have the right to have a reasonable amount of pay to support necessary needs. These needs are clothing, food, diapers, strollers, and much more. All these items don't come at a cheap price. So having mothers get higher maternity leave pay would benefit the mothers, rather than not being about to support for her child....
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...is a mother earns a less salary than a man who is a father and has to sustain a family. This happens, explained in the article, because the idea that a women become mothers start to give a less effort in their jobs, meaning they don’t work as hard as the men. The article starts by explaining how the ideology of intensive motherhood does not let a woman work as hard than before she was a mother. Ideology of intensive motherhood means that a woman has to be the one at home taking care of the children and house chores. Also, a woman being a mother and a wife at home takes up a lot of energy and time, which means that this should be the woman’s first priority. Therefore, a mother working the same job as a father is earning less because “…they’re more distractible when on the job”. This all means that a woman who is a mother can not have two priorities and that because she has children at home she can not give her full attention to her job. According to the article, this is one of the main...
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...screenings during pregnancy and postpartum to both prevent the onset of, and provide early diagnosis of maternal depression (Chaudron et. al., 2004). These screenings are not routinely administered, but when utilized, it is executed by physicians or nurses during the neonate’s 1-month, 2-month, and 4-month check-ups (Chaudron et. al., 2004). A study of the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group database of nearly 17,000 women found that women who received a psychosocial or psychological intervention after delivery were significantly less likely to develop postpartum depression compared with those receiving standard care (Dennis & Dowswell, 2013). These interventions include home visits by public health nurses or midwives, telephone support, and interpersonal therapy (Dennis & Dowswell, 2013)....
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...“She’s French, my mother. Her name is Marianne LaReine. Sometimes she speaks English, sometimes French. Most of the time, she does not speak at all.” (Donnelly) This is the mother of Andi Alpers, who struggles through life after the death of her 10-year old son, Truman. Despite being the daughter, Andi’s role with her mother reverses in Jennifer Donnelly's Revolution, as her mother persistently refuses to listen, and instead stubbornly focuses on the past, ignoring the present. Andi’s mother persistently refuses to listen, which affects Andi. There are many examples of textual evidence of this. If Andi calls for her, and panics for her, she is still in her own world, not listening to her own daughter. This worries Andi. Even if Andi tells...
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...children to grow into well balanced adults with strong character, and skill necessary to carry them through their lives. This can happen when the parents collaborate together, whether married or single in the shared parental responsibility and major decision making. The parents' input has long term consequences in the lives of their children in areas of ; child care, schooling, school trips, activities, vacations, medical care, choosing doctors, religious training, sports, etiquette, handling finances, how to keep their homes, proper nutrition’s, how to drive, hunt, fish, home maintenance, dating issues, discipline, and a host of other things that their children will face in their life as they grow into responsible adults. The responsibility of raising children begins immediately from the time they bring the child home on the first day. This is when the bonding of the child and parents begins. The mom of course is in need the most help during this time. The input from her mate is vital, as she is feeling the pain of the literal child bearing experience, and really needs the father to be right there to take care of her and the baby needs. There is a huge responsibility of making sure that the baby is fed, bathed, and changed, to cooking cleaning, and doing everything else that mom usually does to keep the home running but cannot be done as a result of the birth of the new baby. If the parents are not a couple, and the father is not able to step in to help, then he would...
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...character, Gavin, never achieves the acceptance, attention or love that he is really in need of. Fantasy vs. reality Gavin lives in Africa with his family, his sister is named Amanda and goes to a boarding school in England. He misses Amanda a lot, but when she came back to visit, she was a changed girl, more woman than girl. A woman that would rather go shopping with her mother. Than play with her little brother. A sudden solidarity had appeared between his mother and Amanda, and his father and him self were denied access to be apart of it. On that account Gavin started hating Amanda for being mature and requiring all his mothers time during her visit. As a result Gavin started to fantasize about Amanda being dead, how he would be the only child and how that would change everything. But strangely, the thought it’s redesigned in his dreams. In Gavin’s dreams his father and Amanda dies in a car accident. Thereafter his mother and him self moves back to England and Gavin help’s his mother through the horrendous grief and sorrow and there by he becomes the hero. He becomes the saviour, the one who helped his mother, when she was most vulnerable. Absentminded woman and a man with a...
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...Maternal figues in beloved Baby suggs and Sethe are both the Mother figues in beloved and despite their suffering from slavery they both cared for their children greatly. Baby Suggs and Sethe connected through Motherhood to develop a close bond. They shared the love for their children a bond that all mothers can relate with. Sethe has four children that she loves very much but she could not deal with her past of sweet home. Sethe could not bare for that to happen to her children so she had to save them from the schoolteacher and slavery by trying to kill them. She kills one child whom is referred to as beloved for what is written on her tomb stone, but fails to kill howard buglar, and Denver. Sethe motherly natural instincts caused her to try to save her children from a place like sweet home by any means necessary including death. Sethe being the loving mother she is tries to save her children because she wants a better life and for her children to not suffer like she did. Baby suggs is not only a mother to her specific children but also serves as a mother to slave runaways showing her motherly role in the novel. Baby suggs was "followed by every black man, woman and child who could make it through, took her great heart to the clearing" (Morrison 102). Baby suggs would care for the runaways and preach in her own spiritual way for the runaways, Morrison uses suggs to compare and contrast the mothering style of the two woman by comparing old and new motherhood. Baby suggs...
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...Becoming a mother can be one of the most rewarding things that a woman can go through. Becoming a teen mom is not always the best thing that can happen to a woman at such a young age. Ever since MTV’s 16 and Pregnant came on the air, they have glamorized the life of a teen mother and teen pregnancies. However being on a show for thirty minutes doesn’t begin to illustrate how hard it really is to become a teen mom or the consequences of teen pregnancies. Becoming a teen mom comes with consequences, ones that can effect and change the lives of both the mother and the baby. Teen pregnancies have recently been on the rise and it comes with many factors that can change all of the people involved. Of all of the consequences that teen pregnancies can bring to a mother, one of the most important is the affect of the completion of high school to both the teen mother and father. The National Conference of...
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...Essay: Portrayal of Mothers and Motherhood Motherhood is a big task for mothers to go through. When women become mothers, they go through a lot of changes such as women after become mothers become more responsible, physical changes, etc. Motherhood is a mechanical set of duty and feelings that starts from the pregnancy to the baby birth (Akujobi, 2011). Becoming mother is a great experience that is shaped by culture and social perspective. Mothers losses their freedom, independency as when they get attached to their baby. Mothers need to compromise on many things like for example sacrificing their sleep, their food, their body, their autonomy and many other things. Motherhood images differ from culture to culture, as they filter through our worlds. Mothers though have very huge responsibilities as to bring up their children, to make them learn the language and the culture where a child belongs to but they are portrayed as the criticized figure or nonexistent. Motherhood representations is everywhere, could be good or bad and it could be empowering or being slave. Motherhood has now become such controversial topic that in the twentieth century all the feminist are talking about being mothers, experiencing mother hood and the categories of motherhood. In America there are five categories of mothers (Leary, 2008). 1) Self-absorbed who prefers independency; feels that their children are burden on them and want to achieve their personal pleasures rather than keeping care of their children...
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...feels very connected to this woman. As Violet is just a little child she has no idea, who Virgin Mary is and her relations to Jesus and God. One-Day Violet notices her on the front page of the newspaper that her father is reading, only this time she is holding a baby in her arms. She gets very jealous and mad to see the love and affection Virgin Mary seem to feel for this baby, and Violet reacts by perforating the baby’s eyes and drawing red out of its mouth to look like blood stains. When her parents see this they get very angry and concerned to see their daughter’s, almost sadistic, behavior. The misunderstanding leads us to the main themes in this short story, which is the lack of communication between a little child and adults. Violet’s mother can’t see why she would want to hurt the baby, who in this case, is actually Jesus. We are not told the age of Violet, but implicit we can tell that she is very young. An example is when she gets frightened by an old man and hides between her mother’s legs. In this sentence; “Frightened by his wrinkles, I shrank into my mother’s legs.” (page 8, line 11) we can tell that she is a child. As a child, we find protection and comfort by hiding behind our parents and she can’t be very tall, as she is able to hide behind her mother’s legs. In the middle of the story Violet, finds a dead bird on the ground, and it is explained how her fingers are itching to pick it up and that shows a childish and curious...
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...forget…” | Shows a mother (another way of saying portraying Mary & Jesus) this is a religious image of care, affection and tenderness. Mary also had to watch her son die on the cross, so there is a similarity there and it may also suggest that even prayer cannot help these refugees now. It is one sentence, foregrounding the mother’s love for her son & that she won’t give up on him despite the fact that he’s about to die soon - suggesting a lot of compassion from the mother. This short sentence indicates that there is very little hope or goodness in the lives of the refugees – most of their life is like the struggle depicted in the second sentence. | ‘The air was heavy with odours of diarrhoea Of unwashed children with washed-out ribs And dried-up bottoms struggling in laboured steps Behind blown empty bellies. Other mothers there’ | The sibilance in the description of the unhealthy children who are suffering, emphasizes the hardships they face in the refugee camp. Also intensifying the image of unpleasantness, the way they describe how the children are dirty and unwell.P | ‘long ceased to care’ | The other mothers in the refugee camp didn’t care about their sick child/children dying since they know that nothing can save them. It seems that other mothers don’t care about their child/children anymore – or given up/lost faith/hope, making the mother in this poem seem even more tragic or even heroic. | ‘ghost smile…her eyes the memory Of a mothers pride’ | Could suggest...
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...Cultural Anthropology March 8, 2015 Turnbull’s The Forest People Turnbull’s The Forest People, is a book written about the Pygmy’s culture and how people living in this tribe survived. Colin Turnbull decided to evoke on a journey where he analyzes this interesting lives of the Pygmies. Throughout the story we find several key components that give us more of an understanding about each valuable thing that the Pygmies do everyday. This can be found from the way they eat with portions to the way they raise their children with tender and love. Even though each component is extremely different then what we do in today’s society, there are definitely some valuable lessons that can be learned through reading and understanding the Pygmies culture. The Pygmies have one rule to follow when thinking about gathering food, “No one goes to bed hungry”. This quote is interpreted exactly the way it is written. When the men and women typically go out to hunt, which is normally one time every week or two weeks, they always keep the amount they are feeding in mind. Unlike Americans, who normally go out and prepare food for just their family or household, the Pygmy’s make sure that every single individual in their tribe is fed. It is very rare to hear about women helping the men hunt but it is a refreshing thing to hear that they take part in this responsibility. The job of the women is not actually to kill the game but they simply put the net around it. This...
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...year. Nearly four out of 10 young women get pregnant at least once before they turn 20.1 Each year the federal government alone spends about $40 billion to help families that began with a teenage birth (Statistics ).” This new social phenomenon is spreading widely and becoming a calamity. The consequences of teen pregnancy are devastating. Some parents are left to raise kids on their own as single parents, and some teens have to drop everything and do not even get to finish high school. Children born to teen parents have higher rates of foster care placement, teen parents struggle with finance issues, and it is more likely for babies to be neglected when born to teen parents. Abstinence of course is the number one prevention method for teen pregnancy, which is the only method that is one hundred percent effective. If tens just waited until they were older, instead of having sex so quickly there certainly would not be as many teen mothers. The reality of the situation at hand is that teens are having sex and at very young ages, do not use contraceptives and get pregnant. One real common cause of teen pregnancy, that being unprotected sex. Teens are not using contraceptives as much as they should and some not at all; the reasoning behind this most times is that they do not think they need it. Teens use excuses like it does not feel right, or it prohibits the total feeling of fulfillment with sexual intercourse. They often use the “pull-out” method, where before the male ejaculates...
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...Professor Sobel POVERTY IN SINGLE MOTHERS Poverty is defined as “the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money” (http://www.ask.com/wiki/Poverty). Poverty continues to be an epidemic we face in the United States. “According to an analysis of census data, 7.9 million people live in high-poverty neighborhoods. About 30 percent of the population in these neighborhoods is Black, 29 Hispanic, and 24 percent White. (Chapter 10/Social Class, pg.255; handout). As we take a closer look, poverty is at an all time high in single mothers. “In 1970, the number of single-parent families with children under the age of 18 was 3.8 million. By 1990, the number had more than doubled to 9.7 million” (http://www3.uakron.edu/schulze/401/readings/singleparfam.htm). According to textbook Sociology Matters by Richard T. Schaefer, “since World War II, women have constituted an increasing proportion of the poor people in the United States” (Schaefer, 2013, pg 146). The factors that lead women into poverty include the departure, disability, or a death of a husband. Single mothers are also more likely to be poor because of the lower income earnings, inadequate public assistance and lack of child support from fathers. The conflict theory is highly depicted among poverty in single women. “Conflict theorists and other observers trace the higher rates of poverty among women to three distinct factors; the difficulty in finding affordable child care, sexual harassment, and sex discrimination...
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