Anyway, I was there when my mom experienced 50% survival chance (same with my little sister), and had to undergo caesarean delivery due to pregnancy complications. No, I'm not scaring the hell out of you by telling this story. My point is, a woman should really take good care of her health during pregnancy, and must take really really good care when experiencing post-fertility peak
It could affect up to 150,000 people and kill 300 in a single year. The latest figures from the Health Protection Agency reported 4,791 cases in 2012 - 1,230 in August alone. There were only 908 cases in the whole of 2008 during the last outbreak. Scotland has reported 508 cases up to mid-June while Northern Ireland had 139 cases up to mid-July. Both figures are significantly higher than for the previous year.
1. Information on Congenital Heart Defects More than 32,000 infants (one out of every 125 to 150) are born with heart defects each year in the United States. The defect may be so slight that the baby appears healthy for many years after birth, or so severe that its life is in immediate danger. Heart defects are among the most common birth defects, and are the leading cause of birth defect-related deaths. However, advances in diagnosis and surgical treatment over the past 40 years have led to dramatic increases in survival for children with serious heart defects.
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. Selective reduction is performed early in the pregnancy, normally between weeks 9 and 12, it is most often performed when there are four or more fetuses present, can be used to reduce triplets to twins, and with a fetus with severe defects (www.webmd.com). Infants born part of a multiple pregnancy are at increased risk of prematurity, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, slow language development, behavioral difficulties, chronic lung disease, and death (Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction, 2013). These risks play an important role in a mother’s decision to utilize selective reduction. Maternal risks of a multi-fetal pregnancy include hypertension, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and postpartum hemorrhage (Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction, 2013).
They want to know everything there is to know to ensure they have a healthy baby. The audience who purchases this guide is aware that there are lifestyle adjustments that need to be made in order to have a health pregnancy and they want to learn all about them. The reader may also be someone who is only in the planning stages of becoming pregnant and wants to know all about conception and the right time to make that happen. The audience of this guide wants information that includes what happens from the time a woman first begins to suspect pregnancy, through each of the nine months, and into the postpartum period. The woman reading this wants substantial nutritional information that discusses caloric intake, and maintaining balanced meals perhaps by providing sample recipes.
Memo to Mothers PSY/280 April 25, 2013 Kristin Myers Memo to Mothers This memo is from a development psychologist to give recommendations addressing these two topics and to label daily engagements to help women six months pregnant and women who may get affected by postpartum. If a women is six months along in their pregnancy should follow these three steps to benefit their baby until birth. These three steps will help mothers to give birth to a healthy newborn (Berger, K. S. (2010). The first step for women that are six months pregnant needs to get enough adequate rest. Women need to avoid fatiguing work.
If incarcerate pregnant women are need of medically necessary, specialized care that is not available at the correctional facility, access should be granted of such care at a subsidiary medical facility with suitable expertise. Along with proper care, prenatal classes instructed by medical personnel outlining nutritional needs, ways to maintain a healthy pregnancy while incarcerated, and childbirth should be made available on a weekly basis to inmates. Prompt screening of substance abuse of any incarcerated pregnant woman is extremely important to the health of both the mother and the fetus. “Identification of pregnant women who are addicted to opioids facilitates provision of
Most people agree with keeping abortions leagalized during the first trimester because of the health of the mother or the health of the unborn child (Saad 1). There are many personal reasons women choose to have abortions as well, like in cases of rape. Hillary Clinton cites in her speech on the "politics and moralitly of abortion" that there are 15,000 abortions per year due to women that have been sexually assaulted (Sullivan 2). If a women is raped she should not have to go through the mental stress of having that
Some 70 percent of all women in China use contraception. Puberty tends to start earlier as countries develop and children’s diets improve; in China the starting age has fallen from 14 ½ to 12 ½. Meanwhile the average age of marriage has edged up, from 20 to 22, extending to the time that many young people can be sexually active but unmarried. The abortions rate among young, single women is rising. It is a moral outrage to have a child before marriage than it is to have the shame associated with an abortion.
Today, most home births are planned by White women with low-risk pregnancies who are over 35 years. Two-thirds of these births used midwives and the babies were delivered at term. In comparison, most Black women opt for in-hospital childbirth, and of those who have their babies at home, most are unplanned emergency deliveries attended by physicians or other than midwives. There was a higher per centage of infants born preterm and at risk, suggesting there was less intrapartum care used before those emergency home deliveries(MacDorman, Declercq, & Menacker, 2010). Women in other countries, including Great Britain(Drake, 2003) and the Netherlands(Wiegers, van der Zee, and Keirse, 1998) who have low-risk pregnancies may choose between home and hospital delivery.