Category: Childbirth

A topic I chose for this project is Postpartum Depression in mothers after labor and how it affects the bond with their baby. This topic is a personal topic to me because I experienced postpartum depression after giving birth to my first daughter in 2018. I felt lonely for the first three weeks after birth…

When people discuss pregnancy, it is easy to believe that it is a safe process. While it is easy to notice physical changes throughout a womans pregnancy, it is not easy to realize the mental changes that pregnancy can drown a new mother in. What people do not see is a new mother going through…

Introduction Many people would refer to the birth of a child as a joyous experience, but for some women, it can be traumatic and lead to post-traumatic stress disorder. Much of the research has shown that there are many different things that can cause a woman to perceive their childbirth experience as traumatic. However, 54.6…

In a post-child-birth exit survey of 641 women, Abuya, et al. (2015a) found that D&A is perpetuated by health workers and other facility staff. Further, a systematic review of fourteen studies conducted in Nigeria by Ishola, Owolabi, and Filippi (2017) corroborates this and suggests that D&A was mostly reported as perpetrated by facility staff in…

The birth of a baby is a powerful life event that has implications for a woman’s well-being and future health. But less attention is paid to interventions for the safety, and comfort of the antenatal mother and makes her feel positive about her experience during childbirth. A positive birth experience promotes a sense of achievement,…

How and why the childbirth in Heian and Tokugawa period were so different than todays childbirth? In the words of Marco Gottardo, Pregnancy and childbirth in early-modern Japan within a religious framework, as they were charged with religious meaning at the popular level[footnoteRef:1] represents one of the best angles to analyze this phenomenon. By this…

The end of gestation or pregnancy phase is marked by the birth of the baby, either through vagina or through a Cesarean section. Childbirth is also known as delivery or labor. The most common type of childbirth is the vaginal birth, a natural mode of childbirth. Cesarean Birth, commonly known as C-section is a surgical…

The leading purpose of this article is to understand why cesarean deliveries are overused, considering the increased risk of complications that affect mother and fetus. The author makes it a point to focus on the larger scale of cultural factors that are associated with a key clinical measure of quality care for the maternal population.…

This section explores the existing notions and understandings of childbirth that women have within the low income household communities of Mirpur. Drawing out their narratives and tracing the construction of those narratives allows us to see how women view their place in their own and in other womens reproductive lives and to understand the intentions,…

Introduction This report aims to discuss the purpose of Public Health England (PHE) and the short- and long-term implications of smoking during pregnancy and childhood. Besides, it will explore the role of the midwife in health promotion, the parent-infant attachment in correlation to local and national guidelines and communication strategies that influences behavioural changes. Government…