Obesity and Pregnancy Have you ever leisurely walked down an isle at Target and noticed a pregnant women waddling from side to side and thought to yourself man she is fat? Well she really is. Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health‚ leading to reduced life expectancy and increased health problems. Maternal obesity is a major risk factor in short term for both maternal and fetal complications‚ including maternal
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Abstract Developing nations are plagued by high maternal mortality rates‚ unwanted pregnancies‚ and family planning policies that aim to control population growth through sterilization and unsafe birth control drugs. In such harsh settings‚ traditional midwives are important and effective agents of women ’s wellness and family planning policy. This essay will evaluate the community roles of professional versus traditional midwives in rural Asia‚ including discussion regarding the meager respect
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6.1 INTRODUCTION Save the Children The birth of a baby is one of life’s most wondrous moments. Newborn babies have amazing abilities‚ yet they are completely depended on others for breast -feeding‚ warmth and comfort .Newborn is a continuum of the fetal life and a very important and vulnerable link in the chain of events from the conception to adulthood. The physical and mental wellbeing of an individual depends on the correct management of events in the perinatal period. The current neonatal mortality
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Running head: RESEARCH CRITIQUE: EFFECTS OF GENDER ON THE HEALTH Research Critique: Effects of Gender on the Health and Development of Medically At-Risk Infants Kimberly Baird Grand Canyon University Introduction to Nursing Research NRS 433 Sonya Williams April 28‚ 2011 Research Critique: Effects of Gender on the Health and Development of Medically At-Risk Infants Gender has been shown to have a considerable impact on the health and development of infants with boys showing greater
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NUR 221 Final Review Obstetrics: • Physiological changes of pregnancy of each body system including fundal height and vs • Postpartum changes (progressive‚- return of menstruation and lactation retrogressive‚- involution of the uterus‚ 6 weeks involution‚- return of the uterus to it’s pre-pregnant stage‚ contraction‚ lochia- rubra-1-3 days‚ mod-heavy‚ red w/ clots‚ serosa-4-10 days‚ mod-scant‚ pink‚ alba-11-21 days‚ scant‚ whitish/tan) • Postpartum checks ( B-breasts U-uterus/fundus B-bleeding
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Teenage Pregnancy: A Socially Inflicted Health Hazard Bratati Banerjee‚ GK Pandey‚1 Debashis Dutt‚2 Bhaswati Sengupta‚2 Maitrayei Mondal‚2 and Sila Deb Department of Community Medicine‚ Maulana Azad Medical College‚ New Delhi‚ India 1Department of Epidemiology‚ All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health‚ Kolkata‚ India 2Department of Public Health Administration‚ All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health‚ Kolkata‚ India Address for correspondence: Dr. Bratati Banerjee‚ Department
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admitted to the hospital. The second part consists of personal comments about various articles that I looked up regarding pregnancy‚ birth‚ and postpartum. This assignment also touches a little bit on the purpose of the Association of Women’s Health‚ Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) and consists of a short section about important points made in a clinical update about single-embryo transfers in IVF treatment. My Birth Plan and Pregnancy-Related Articles A birth plan is
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Depression and Pregnancy Audrey Luck Psychology for Midwives 11/16/10 Depression and Pregnancy 2 For most women the period of growing bellies and growing anticipations is a joyful and exciting time and for others this time may harbor doubt‚ fear‚ and depression. “As many as 1 out of 5 women have symptoms of depression during pregnancy. For some women‚ those symptoms are severe. In pregnancy‚ women who have been depressed before are at higher risk of depression than other
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Introduction Gestational diabetes is defined as any degree of glucose intolerance that has its onset or is first diagnosed during pregnancy. Kuhl‚ Hornnes‚ and Andersen (1985) state that gestational diabetes occurs when the pancreas of a pregnant woman fails to increase insulin production to compensate for the natural decrease in cells’ sensitivity to insulin. The cardinal signs of diabetes are polyuria (related to decreased reabsorption at the renal tubules because of the osmotic activity of
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I. INTRODUCTION PLACENTA ACCRETA The abnormal adherence of the chorionic villi (vascular fingers of the chorion‚ a part of the placenta) to the myometrium (the muscle of the uterus). Normally‚ there is tissue intervening between the chorionic villi and the myometrium but in placenta accreta‚ these vascular processes of the chorion grow directly in the myometrium. Placenta accreta occurs when your placenta attaches too firmly to the inside wall of your uterus. This is a rare disorder‚ occurring
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