The breast-feeding group believed breast-feeding is better for the baby, helps with infant bonding, and protects the infant from disease. The breast-feeding group was also more likely to want their partner to breast-feed and to have respect for breast-feeding women. Those in the formula feeding group were more likely to think breast-feeding is bad for breasts, makes breasts ugly, and interferes with sex. The majority of both groups agreed breast-feeding was not acceptable in public. The article is useful in bringing to light that more effort should be put into the involvement of father’s on breastfeeding education courses, so the decision to breast or formula feed can be thoughtfully made based on evidential facts.
Eloisa Morales English 1301 March 22, 2011 Pros and Cons on Breastfeeding We have all heard “breast milk” is best, however as our society changes and as time constraints mothers go for convenience verses what is best. Within the past century more women have left the home and gone back to work, making breastfeeding less common. The need to reeducate and encourage women to breastfeed is imperative, but the choice is still ultimately the mothers. Breastfeeding has many pluses, the bond created between mother and baby is very special. Breastfeeding brings so many benefits such as it contains antibodies that decrease infant’s risk of infections, diarrhea, allergies, asthma, SIDS, diabetes and certain cancers.
Women who take this pill guard from a surgical abortion which is much more uncomfortable. Statistics tell us that “between the years of 1994 and 1995 96% of the women who took the pill would recommend it to others; 91% would choose to use it again; 88% found it effective and satisfactory” (Meier 1). Women are prone to feel much more personal safety due to it being less invasive than the surgical procedure. Women who choose to take this pill can avoid trauma and anti-abortion protestors for the matter because it can be done by their own private physician where it is legal. Being free of emotional and physical invasion has made easier for women to want to take it again even after failing the first time (fraser
The bowel contains air or gas and ultrasound waves do not travel well through air. Thirdly, move the uterus higher up in the woman’s belly making the unborn baby easier to see. Then make the bladder clearer to identify on ultrasound especially during later pregnancy. However, a partially full bladder is usually sufficient for an ultrasound examination during later pregnancy. Therefore, these are the proper steps that ultrasounds technicians use to perform an ultrasound.
Selective reduction is the process of voluntarily terminating one or more fetuses in a multi-fetal pregnancy in order to increase the likelihood of a successful and viable birth. The procedure is used to manage multiple pregnancies that result from fertility treatments such as IVF and also some naturally occurring multi-fetal pregnancies. This procedure was developed in the 1980’s by Dr. Mark Evans (Evans & Britt, 2010). This is a controversial topic to many people who classify this action as abortion. Abortion is the termination of the entire pregnancy yet selective reduction is performed to improve the survival rate of the remaining fetuses and also the mother.
She didn’t have any of the pregnancy symptoms before 8 weeks, but after 8 weeks, she started having morning sickness, and her breast felt sore. Her appetite has also changed. She lost 5 pounds at the first trimester of pregnancy because her stomach felt sick. Gina felt much better after the 4th month of pregnancy and gained almost 20 pounds at the end of her pregnancy. Gina knew that prenatal care should start before getting pregnant, but she did not know the medical system in the U.S.A.
Sometimes a mother’s work schedule is not conducive to breastfeeding, therefore she must bottle feed her infant. Scientific advances have made infant formula a good alternative to breast feeding. The nutritional components of breast milk vary according to
Mothers in the district were noticed to have access to nutritional information and health personnel were also acclaimed to be the major source through which this information is distributed. Partially exclusive breastfeeding was found to be the main mode of breastfeeding practice among mothers who had children below six months at the time of our research. A high percentage of mothers were found to breastfeed on demand. Most women continued breastfeeding whiles feeding children with complementary food. Complementary foods were mostly prepared form foodstuffs which were locally available and prepared by mothers.
In the past, it is believed, that when, mothers breast feed babies, the next food is water. But now, mothers are advised not to include water in diet of babies but breast feed them exclusively for six months. We forget that apart from water being a vehicle that has 70 per cent body weight, it also has healing properties. Also, herbal extracts, from leaves,
The drug thalidomide was originally used to help morning sickness for pregnant women. Enantiomers consist of a chiral molecule and its nonsuperimposable, mirror-image molecule (352). An example of enantiomers is a person’s left hand and the mirror image of their right hand, or vice versa. Thalidomide consists of two enantiomers, one that was successful for treating morning sickness and the other enantiomer that is considered a teratogen. A teratogen is the cause for malformation of an embryo (353).