Girl Child Interview

I interviewed a woman named Courtney Rickabaugh. When I became an independent, I went to live with her my freshman year of high school and moved out my senior year of high school. She is a middle school teacher at Big Spring Middle School in Newville, Pa. She teaches 7th grade English, but also taught in the Big Spring High School as a 9th grade English teacher. She has two daughters who are named Laila (the oldest) and Zaida (the youngest). Her husband’s name is Shawn Rickabaugh whom she just married recently. Throughout the interview, her two pregnancies were similar in ways and different in other ways. Some things that were similar is that Courtney had two daughters, breastfed them both, and both daughters were kept both in the room with her and in the nursery at some points. Parts of her pregnancy that were different were the length of how long she stayed in the hospital, her postnatal practices, and the kind of delivery she had with her daughters. The length of her hospital stay was longer for her first daughter due to having to have a cesarean section because of a low heart rate with Laila. She only had to stay three days with her second daughter, Zaida. Another difference was that she had Laila

Teen birthrate’s dropped to an all-time low in the United State in the year of 2010 (Siegler, DeLoache, Eisenberg, Saffran, 2014, p. 64). Courtney had both her daughters in the mid-thirties age range which was typically when women were deciding to have children. According to the text, some diseases can harm the fetus during pregnancy which is why Courtney had to get a genetic test done because there was a chance for a disease on the father’s side (Siegler, DeLache, Eisenber, Saffran, 2014, p. 65). Overall, both of her pregnancies related to the information in the textbook as both of her daughters developed throughout her