Essays on Kangaroo

Reaction to Cartoons

I see that Thurber’s cartoons are dry and it takes a certain sort of humor to immediately appreciate them. I think that after one reads them and studies them briefly, they can still be appreciated regardless of any humor, primarily because many of them are universal in their own way. Thurber, known for showing men who overstep their boundaries in one way or another, and women who are not going to put up with it, managed to clue into this vein with the American public time and time again. One panel shows an obviously drunk man who has ...

Kangaroo mother Care.

Kangaroo Care and Survival Rates Kangaroo mother care is a method of care for preterm and low birth weight infants involving skin to skin contact between mother and newborn, early discharge from hospital and frequent breastfeeding (WHO, 2003). Despite the limited research into this method of mother care, if continued at home, can it be blended with breastfeeding to boost survival rates among infants? In resource deprived areas, the Kangaroo is utilized often to reduce on mortality and morbidity among newborns (WHO, 2016). Other benefits are stabilized body heat, regulates child temperatures and improves on breathing of the new ...

Did Human Bipedalism Evolve from a Knuckle-walking Ape Ancestor Did Human Bipedalism Evolve from a Knuckle-walking Ape Ancestor

Introduction

The narratives of human evolution are one of the oft-told scientific stories whenever the topic of the origin of man crops up. However, this topic is also one of the thorniest and most highly contentious. There are major disagreements in the manner in which man first came to be, and every interpretation of almost every new find on the matter will be sure to find opposition among scholars on the field (Harcourt-Smith & Aiello, 2004). While there are numerous causes of disputes ...

Infant Mortality

Introduction Infant mortality has taken a toll at the nation as a whole apart from the families and mothers who loses their babies to different causes. The death of a baby is by far the most devastating event a parent can ever go through in a lifetime. Child mortality remains a sad reality for the whole nation, especially the sole parents and families who are unfortunate enough to experience child death. According to CDC, over 23,000 infants died in the country in the year 2014 alone. The number represents the reported cases of child death across the country. ...

A human being is a creature with the most developed brain and body functions, walking the face of the earth. They are the only species that have a well-developed brain to help them in thinking and coping with situations. There are two ways to look at human beings in terms of creation. The old version is from the Bible. God created man on the 6th day of the week. He came after God created the world and the animals in it. The other version involves the evolution of man. The man was a monkey then with time; he evolved through various stages ...

Preterm or premature births pertain to births earlier than 38 weeks of gestation. The WHO (2013) estimates that each year around 15 million infants are born before 37 weeks. The preterm birth rate varies across 184 countries but range from 5-18% of all live births. On one hand, estimates show that approximately 75% of preterm mortality can be prevented even without intensive care interventions (WHO, 2013). On the other, prematurity has become the top cause of newborn mortality with over a million deaths every year which accounts for 35% of total newborn mortality (Lawn et al., 2012). Third world or ...

The article investigates the positive effect of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) on long-term breastfeeding in very preterm infants. A perfect research must have an introduction section giving the problem statement, research questions, objectives, aims, and research questions. The researcher provided a long introduction to the research that has no problem statement, research questions, and assumptions. In addition, the objectives provided have less weight on the area of study. The research topic concentrates on the long-term effect of breast feeding while in the objectives, the researcher only concentrates on 6 months period (Flacking, Ewald, and Wallin, 2011; 190). A normal child ...

In the recent past, exceptionally premature babies have been dying at a very higher rate. It is assumed that they only have 50% chance of survival. Newborns are also in this mix as they are at bigger jeopardy of developing complications in future (Whitfield & Peters, 2004). To prevent this, both the infants and the premature babies are usually kept in incubators until they are stable. In cases where the new born is stable and does not need incubators, Kangaroo Mother Care is used. This involves a direct skin-to-skin contact between mother and the new born. One of the main reasons why ...

Kangaroo Mother Care: The Benefits of Skin-to-Skin Contact with Newborns

Kangaroo Mother Care, or Skin-to-Skin contact with a newborn immediately after birth, has proven to be a highly beneficial practice, with hardly any negative impact. Kangaroo Mother Care, or KMC for short, provides a newborn the warmth, stimulation, safety, protection from infection, and love that they need. KMC has benefits for not only the newborn, but also significant benefits for the mother, including a boost in her self esteem. Through various studies, pediatricians and obstetricians have found little negative impact through the use of the Kangaroo Mother Care method. The only time it should not be used is in emergency situations, where a newborn ...