Essays on Child Birth

a) Elements of Ecology In “Kampung Boy”, the author has portrayed an intrinsic biography of a Muslim boy born in Kampong in Perak. How the young boy grows up in rural Malaysia is explained in a vivid fashion, from which the reader is able to draw various inferences on ecological factors and their influence on childhood. The Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological System Model analyses the child development paradigm in a framework of simple yet meaningful relationships with environment. The essay focuses on how these elements have been embedded in the childhood of the Kampung Boy.

The Microsystem

Urie Bronfenbrenner has identified microsystem ...

Introduction

Major Forces Affecting the Delivery of Healthcare Today Various factors influence the delivery of health care. One of the major forces is the cost of healthcare in the current economic environment. The influence of costs in the delivery of care is shown by the increase in the managed care plans, the reduction in the hospitalization periods, and the outpatient treatment (White, Duncan & Baumle, 2010). The other force that influences health care is access to care. Access has a dual element. In addition to the physical access where the health care facilities are physically inaccessible, there is the economic access ...

For over the years, there is a relative increase in cases of children with birth defects. Recent statistics with regards to the American babies suffering from birth defects reveals that for every 4 and a half minutes, there is a new case of baby born with a birth defect, which can also be summarized as 120,000 incidents of child birth defects every year, and it is expected that the number of child victims will rise for the succeeding years (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). Birth defects on newborn babies may affect almost any part of their body ...

Giving birth to a baby can be an eventful and an emotional journey in the life of a woman. She will be going through emotions like extreme excitement, joy, fear and anxiety. In some cases, the condition maybe even worse than these and may result in a more complex condition. The pregnant woman can get into a stage of depression following the birth of a child. A good number of women across the world have shown the tendency to develop minor depressive symptoms following the birth of a child. These include symptoms like mood swings, involuntary crying and difficulty ...

In comparison with other western developed or industrialized countries, the United States of America has been established by various researchers and scholars to be the leading in teen pregnancy. Despite the fact that the teen pregnancies have been declining over years, various reports according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that the U.S. still has a higher rate of teen pregnancies than any other developed country (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). This statistics emphasizes on the need of taking teen pregnancy as a matter of great ...

Introduction

Evidence base practice is crucial in the health care of the patient. In fact, establishing the quality of care depend totality on evidence. To insure the important of evidence in practice, many studies have been done over the years. The research done in these studies gave the world a view about the importance of evidence based practice. Globally, it should be used as a standard in care given to patients. From this point, each nurse should be aware of how to link between traditionally practiced medicine and evidence based medicine. Evidence base practice (EBP) has been established since the 1900s. ...

Abortion has always been one of the most disputable social issues. It is the subject of heated discussion in political circles. It is a constant concern to medical workers. It is a moral, cultural, and religious issue. Neither legalization of abortions nor their ban could put an end to the disputes. There will always be those who are for and those who are unconditionally against abortion. There was a time in the history of the USA when abortions were banned. That period started at the turn of the 20ties century and lasted till 1973 ("Government Should Protect Women's Right to Abortion"). ...

Summary of the child birth class

The birth class was scheduled on October 05, 2014 from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM at Sebily Memorial Hospital. It was made up of twelve women with each woman having a partner accompanying them to the session. The instructor always insisted on the pregnant mothers coming with a trusted friend or husband to the class sessions. The instructor was called Mrs. Danielle Kontz. She had been with the class from the beginning where she had twelve women and two nursing students. The class was very intense; it was eight hours long in which she talked about a topic for half an hour ...

Summary of the child birth class

The birth class attended was made up of eight women with each woman having a partner accompanying them to the session. The instructor always insists on the pregnant mothers coming with a trusted friend or husband to the class sessions. The instructor was called Mrs. Claire Williams. She had been with the class from the beginning where she had six out of the eight women in her class that day. The class was two hours thirty minutes long where she talked about a topic for half an hour with breaks in between to help the mothers relax. The instructor is a senior midwife ...

In line with the issue, selecting the best Children, both the authors pointed that technology also gives us the privilege. The privelage of ensuring that the future generation would be more predisposed to being smarter, happier and healthier compared to the generation they preceded. One the points the authors pointed out that relates to this issue is the right (or freedom) to select the sexual partners to ensure that the genetical makeup is at par with what the couple wants. Other issues used by the authors to highlight their point in the concept include medical procedures such as Pre-implantation ...

Literature

What is the underlying meaning of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”? I feel a strong desire to know more of what Gilman’s message was. I don’t see the strong connection between Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and post-partum. It is only because I was informed of the post-partum underlying information that I was able to make the connection. I find this story fascinating because this story comes into my life when I find myself being 6 months pregnant with my first child. When we read this class, I was taking birthing and parenting classes in which we ...

An examination into reviews on use of no pharmacologic approaches in management of labor pain and child birth has cast aspiration on the safety and efficiency of these methods. It is hard to ascertain how safe and adequate these approaches are. The examination goes ahead to categorize these approaches into three based on efficiency. In the category of those that have been found to work are the use of epidural injections, combined spinal epidurals and inhaled analgesic (Gail, 2012). Even with evidence from the reviews that these approaches adequately manage pain during labor and child birth, they’ve ...

Abstract

Child birth complications are of various types and range from one woman to another. Childbirth complications include severe bleeding, kidney failure, stroke and heart attack. In most cases, these complications are experienced either during or soon after child birth. All women are deemed to be at a risk of experiencing child birth complications. Nonetheless, minority, black, and older women are deemed to have more exposure to child birth complications. Additionally, women who have various health conditions such as heart diseases are more likely to experience childbirth complications. As such, women who have medical conditions are normally advised to visit their ...

Howard County Medical Center in St. Paul,

Nebraska, P.O Box 406, St. Paul, NE68873 With the current need to raise car seat awareness in the Nebraska Community, there is a need for finances trawl facilitate the whole process. There is low awareness of car seat services and knowledge in Nebraska; this is partly because of the fact that Nebraska is a small town. There is a need to ensure that the services are available. Howard County Medical Center in St. Paul has great hopes that this letter will find favor from you. This will enable the hospital to empower the community about the need to ...

Introduction

It is approximated that about one billion people in the world today suffer from iron deficiency anemia (Sloan, Jordan, & Winikoff, 2002). There are many causes of this disease that have already been identified such as poor diet, menses, excess bleeding in the intestine, and inability of a person to absorb iron among others. However, the question that remains to be answered is why many people continue to be affected despite much information about the disease that is already available.

Background

Iron deficiency anemia is a type of anemia that occurs due to loss of iron in the body that may be caused ...