When the fetal heart rate decreased (Bradycardia), fetal distress was noted, and an emergency caesarean was initiated. To her sadness, the baby was found bluish in skin colour when born in her 35th week gestation in labour with a low birth weight of only 1.4kilogramms. Some abnormality was also found in the baby’s leg. The doctor warned of 50% chance of survival and presence of special child characteristics. Postnatal The born baby was put in the incubator for 2 months.
Depending on how serious the symptoms are, is how long the person will live. They may live as long as a normal person. In LOTS, the body makes small amounts of hex A. People with LOTS inherit the late-onset hex A, gene from both parents or inherit one late-onset gene and one inactive gene. Tay-Sachs disease results from defects in a gene on chromosome 15 that codes for production of the enzyme Hex-A.
This essay will argue that Huttmann made a wise decision and did not commit a crime. She made a very difficult decision to free Mac of his misery and live with a peaceful conscience. During the 80's euthanasia was not a common procedure for hospitals. There are patients like Mac who are very ill and transformed from a strong, young person in to a skeleton trapped in a hospital bed. When people are very sick and have to lay in bed for months without showing a bit of progress, as in the majority of the cancer cases, they are in agony.“The Doctor believed that life must be extended as long they have the means and knowledge to do it” (Huttmann 114).
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome Chloe: Hi Elizabeth I’m Chloe Steele, your genetic counselor. Obviously you are here about the health of your baby. I can see from your records that you carry the gene for a disease called Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome. This disease is also called H.G.P.R.T. or the X-linked uric aciduria enzyme defect.
When the doctor performed the procedure on Bruce, an accident resulted in the loss of most of the baby’s penis. The Reimers took their maimed son to several doctors until they ended up consulting medical psychologist Dr. John Money of Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore. Money told the parents that do to Bruce’s young age he could be raised as a girl successfully since a person’s gender was decided by their environment and not by their DNA. Bruce was an ideal candidate for an experiment to prove this claim since he had an identical twin brother to use as a control. Before then, gender reassignment surgery had never been performed on a child who had normal genitalia.
These drugs are ones that are not prescribed and are illegal. If they are being taken the baby is at risk mostly in the first 12 weeks when the foetus is developing. During pregnancy you cannot drink high levels of alcohol as the baby is going through critical development and this can cause them problems such as, mental disability, heart defects, cleft palate, hare lip, physical defects and kidney problems (FAS). In the first year of a baby’s life a bond between them and their parents needs to be formed. These relationships make a difference to the quality of care that the adult provides.
The type of sperm (X or Y) that fertilizes an egg can be chosen, which is used to determine the sex and genes of the baby. The embryos can be screened for genetic diseases, and only selected embryos are implanted back into the mother’s womb. This technique is called Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis or PGD. (Bionet par. 2) Michael Lemonick, a writer for Time, shows in his article “Designer Babies” that these techniques allow doctors and parents to reduce the chance that a child will be born with a genetic disorder.
Unfortunately there is no cure for CP, but there are treatments, therapy, and in some cases sugary to help the child live with the condition. Cerebral Palsy is one of the most common congenital disorders of childhood. An average of half a million adults and children suffer from CP in the United States. This disorder affects both complex and simple muscle coordination and also affects normal vital functions such as breathing, bladder and bowel control, eating and learning. Fortunately CP does not get worse over time.
But what truly causes it is a mystery that leaves scientists and doctors with just guesses and tests to do. Some people say that babies die of SIDS just from sleeping wrong. In 1994, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) had a “Back To Sleep” campaign that told parents to always put infants on their backs when sleeping. After that, the rate of SIDS went down by more than 50% (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). Even with that drop in the death rate, SIDS is still responsible for about 3,000 deaths per year (“Sudden Infant Death” 1621).
Low birth weight is more relevant in very premature babies and ‘small for date’ babies. The most likely cause of low birth weight is ‘inadequate nutrition before birth’ where either the mother had an inadequate diet, the placenta did not function normally or the babies had ‘defects that prevented