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    Topic Pregnancy with Gestational Diabetes Gestational diabetes is a condition characterized by high blood sugar (glucose) levels that is first recognized during pregnancy. The condition occurs in approximately 4% of all pregnancies. What Causes Gestational Diabetes in Pregnancy Almost all women have some degree of impaired glucose intolerance as a result of hormonal changes that occur during pregnancy. That means that their blood sugar may be higher than normal‚ but not high enough to have diabetes

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    TO: ABC Mining Company FROM: T DATE: April 14‚ 2012 RE:   Tax consequences and other risk factors associated with mining operations   I. FACTS  ABC Mining Company‚ Inc. is a publically traded‚ large domestic mining company with over 500 plants in the United States. ABC owns a tract of land in California upon which it has conducted a strip mining operation for coal. An unrelated party owns a tract of land adjacent to the tract of land in California‚ which is owned by ABC. This land is worth

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    important in everyday life‚ but being physically fit during pregnancy is important as well. Pregnant women fall into a group specified as a special population. Questions continually arise about safety‚ training recommendations‚ and limitations while pregnant. Physical fitness helps a woman with the physical demands that pregnancy imposes on her body‚ as well as providing everyday health benefits. Exercise can be helpful with common pregnancy issues and make childbirth easier. According to Kalisiak

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    treated lightly. For a long time‚ children and adolescents were not considered able to have depression.(The Relationship of Self Esteem and Depression 6) Some thought the brain hadn’t developed enough for depression to become an issue. Others thought that children and adolescents didn’t have the stress or worry in their life that could cause depression. To this day‚ childhood depression is seen as a mask of some sort. Some children and adolescents use depression as a mask for other ailements such

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    (Cefazolin‚ 2011). She delivered on 10/28/13 without complications. Her blood pressure decreased to the 140’s/80’s-90’s range where it remained. She was given the rubella vaccine and magnesium sulfate was discontinued. Pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) occurs in 5-10% of pregnancies (Sibai & Ross‚ 2010). Symptoms include nausea‚ vomiting‚ dizziness‚ headaches‚ and sudden weight gain (Sibai & Ross‚ 2010) but its occurrence may never be noticed and the mother may feel perfectly well as was the case

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    Title: Illegitimate Pregnancy Problem statement According to the Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance of Malaysia (RRAAM)‚ “Illegitimate pregnancy is not socially acceptable due to society’s religious view.” Illegitimacy is not a widely used word today‚ and young people may not even recognize it as an insult. The term designated unmarried mothers‚ unmarried fathers‚ and their unlucky children as deviants. All were called “illegitimate‚” and illegitimate children were sometimes also called

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    Christ. The Stages of Development There are four developmental aspects that need to be covered in adolescent development. The first developmental theory in the adolescent stage is Jean Piaget’s theory of the formal operational stage. In this developmental stage the person is developing the capacity for abstract‚ systematic‚ and scientific thinking.[1] Within this developmental stage‚ adolescents are capable of hypothetico-deductive reasoning‚ in which a child is able to come up with hypothetical

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    Adolescent Interview Teenage years can be a challenging time for many individuals. Beginning at the age of 11 through 20‚ adolescence is defined as a “transitional period in the human life span‚ linking childhood and adulthood” (Santrock 2009). At this point‚ the person is no longer a child‚ but not yet an adult. This makes it a very critical and sensitive time frame for identity formation. According to Erik Erikson‚ adolescence is marked by the child’s questioning his or her identity during

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    Teen Pregnancy in the Media Three-quarters of a million teens between the ages of 15 and 19 become pregnant each year; eighty-two percent of those pregnancies are unplanned (“Peer Pressure Facts About Teenage Pregnancy” 1). Most teens that get pregnant do not have the education‚ money‚ or support system to raise a child‚ thus resulting in a poor life for the mother and the child (Wikipedia “Teenage Pregnancy” 3). Teenage pregnancy is a growing issue‚ especially in the United States‚ which is very

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    Before successfully preventing teen pregnancies among teenage girls‚ there are many underlying causes and facts about the dilemma that must be first exposed. Children from homes run by teenage mothers have to face almost insurmountable obstacles in life. The incidents of depression and mental health problems‚ the lack of father figures‚ and the high rate of poverty often connected to children in homes run by teenage mothers put them at serious disadvantages when compared to children raised in nuclear

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