Adolescence is a vulnerable time for pregnancy because the developmental tasks of pregnancy are superimposed on those of adolescence. The developmental tasks of the average adolescent are fourfold: to establish a sense of self worth and a value system; to establish lasting relationships; to emancipate from parents; and to choose a vocation. A girl in the process of separating from her parents may be devastated by the knowledge that in less than a year someone will be dependent on her. When she realizes she is pregnant, she may have decreased ability to separate from her parents because she needs their financial help more than ever to obtain prenatal care buy prenatal vitamins. [Read more...]
Positioning for Child Birth
A range of position can be used for birth. At a previous time, the lithotomy position was the major position for birth, but it’s no longer the position of choice in birthing rooms or alternative birth centers-although the work beds in these locales often have attached stirrups to permit birth in a lithotomy position. [Read more...]
Internal Electronic Monitoring during Pregnancy
Internal electronic monitoring is the most accurate system for considering FHR and uterine contractions. A pressure sensing catheter is passed through the vagina, next to the fetus, into the uterine hole after the surfaces have ruptured and the cervix has distended to at least three cm. [Read more...]
Hematologic Aberrations and Pregnancy : Iron Deficiency Anemia
Iron-deficiency anemia is the most typical anemia of pregnancy, complicating as much as 15% to 25 percent of all pregnancies. Many women enter pregnancy with a deficiency of iron stores caused by a diet low in iron, heavy menstrual periods, or stupid weight-reducing programs. Iron stores are likely to be below ten mg / dL will be suspected of iron deficiency. [Read more...]
Episiotomy during Pregnancy
An episiotomy is a surgical incision of the perineum made to stop ripping of the perineum with birth and to release stress on the fetal head with birth. [Read more...]
Fetal Replies to Labor
Though the fetus is largely a passive player in work, the effects of pressure and circulatory changes that happen with contractions cause discoverable physiologic differences during pregnancy. Such differences can be broken down into the following: [Read more...]
Electronic Monitoring during Pregnancy
In most settings, FHR is screen at least for a brief time in early work by an external electronic monitoring system. The monitor is left in place for constant monitoring on expecting mothers who are specified as risk for any reason or who have oxytocin kick. [Read more...]