As much as possible, you and the people around you including your partner, family and friends, will want to protect you and the baby inside. Thus being healthy and keeping a good health condition that is away from illnesses is a must. One of the many concerns of people is contracting a fever during pregnancy. A simple fever may already increase the level of worry thinking how it can affect the mother, and the fetus inside.
Since you are pregnant, it is easier for you to be sick and contract diseases due to the fact that your immune system has been suppressed naturally. The natural suppression of your immune system happens as a protection to your baby, which is typically considered as an outsider, from being rejected by your own body. Having
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Septic abortion occurs when the uterus has been infected due to improper treatment of miscarriage brought about by factors such as poor surgical techniques or pre-existing uterine or cervical infection. If left untreated, septic abortion will cause the woman to experience a fatal septic shock which may lower blood pressure and cause respiratory distress.
• Listeriosis. Listeriosis affect not only the pregnant women but also the newborns, adults and elderly with impaired immune systems. Once this infection spreads to their nervous systems, it will result to confusion, convulsions, stiff neck and headaches. According to the American Pregnancy Association, mothers who experience this infection by the ingestion of contaminated food and water may have miscarriage, stillbirth, or premature delivery if left untreated. If treated, however, it will unlikely develop some problems on the side of the baby.
• Chorioamnionitis. Chorioamnionitis is an infection of the chorion and amnion, membranes that surrounds the fetus and the amniotic fluid. The pregnant woman will be treated with antibiotics and the baby will be delivered. If the baby is positive for infection, he or she will be treated with antibiotics too. if left untreated, the effects of chorioamnionitis to the baby will be sepsis, respiratory problems or
After normal delivery, GBS can also lead to infection of the inner lining (endometrium) of the uterus. For mothers who deliver by C-section, wound infection risk is increased.
If this happens, the embryo may be implanted in the tube, causing a tubal pregnancy. This serious complication results in a miscarriage and can cause death of the mother. Rarely, untreated gonorrhea can spread through the blood to the joints. Gnorrhea is treated with antibiotic drugs taken orally or by injection.
Many infections end in stillbirth or miscarriage. Children who survive are likely to be born with serious problems, such as, seizures, an enlarged liver and spleen, yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes (jaundice) and severe eye infections. Often, infected children don't develop signs and symptoms until later on, symptoms include hearing loss, mental disability or serious eye infections.
There are variables that could affect her choice. She could be poor, the child could have a birth defect, and so on. Giving her a right to decide whether she should abort the baby, it’s entirely her choice. What if the mother was raped or she got pregnant from incest? Would you traumatise this mother with the child of the rapist for 9 months, and would you allow an inbred child that will most likely have a disability and be put through literal hell?
Pregnant women have to be careful while pregnant. They have to watch out for various speed bumps. There are tons of toxins that can hurt the baby in the womb. The mother is responsible for most of these, after all she is the one who is carrying the baby. Many of these factors can result in death. It is really sad that it has to end that way some of the time. The worst toxins for a baby to encounter while in the mother’s uterus are different types of drugs and alcohol. Those two things can could serious problems for the infant once it gets into their system. They enter into the baby’s bloodstream from the mother, and cause problems from there on out.
Complications can arise even with a full term newborn. However, the chances of complications increases and are apt to be more severe the earlier a baby is born. Preterm complications that can arise include the following: breathing and respiratory problems, feeding and digestive problems, intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, and vision and hearing loss to name a few ([CDC], 200...
There are many limitations valued when it comes to the right of abortion. The news media still outlines the pros and cons of anti-abortion rights in certain-states-to soon, the entire country. My perspectives on the issue of abortion have been entitled from it to never be banned among citizen’s rights. The reproduction of pregnancy has been emphasized heavily on a mother’s decision to abort their child, but the father of the child plays an active role since he considers to that particular title. Through this current issue, majority of the people against abortion do not seem to have an open mind to how much it primarily affects the decision of the mother amongst her own views of considering abortion.
Out of all the complications that come with abortion, there are eight that are extremely common (DeCharney). They are infection, excessive bleeding, ripping or perforation of the uterus, anesthesia complications, convulsions, hemorrhage, cervical injury, and endotoxic shock. It is very important to be aware of all the risks before making a decision with the doctor. It's also very crucial to pay close attention to any side affects after an abortion. Patients should seek medical attention if they are exper...
Sometimes it is safer to have an abortion than it is to actually go through with a pregnancy. About 800 women die from pregnancy or childbirth complications every day. In 2010, 287,000 women died during and following pregnancy and childbirth (World Health Organization). Pregnancy is especially perilous for a woman who has serious health problems even before she becomes pregnant. Going through pregnancy and labor could be unsafe for the woman and the fetus. Epilepsy is one condition that can be particularly dangerous for a pregnant woman. Seizures during pregnancy can harm the fetus, and increase the risk of miscarriage or stillbirth, in addition to increased risk of injury to the woman. Unfortunately, using medicine to control seizures might cause birth defects. Even more common, seemingly less severe health issu...
As I was doing research, I came across an article by Napolitano and I found a startling statistic:
The procedure causes health complications for the mother, inflicts pain on a living fetus, and kills the unborn baby. Late-term abortion induces innumerable physical health complications to the patient, including severe infections, extreme bleeding, and damage to the uterus. In addition, one analysis, in relation to abortion problems, states, “from 1988 to 1997 found the risk of death increased by 38% for each additional week of gestation, during the pregnancy.” (Jones).
Every woman when pregnant has a 3-5% chance of having a baby born with a birth defect, and these chances increase when the developing fetus/ embryos are exposed to teratogens, whether it’s intentional or unintentional (Bethesda (MD), 2006). Teratogens can cause severe birth defects, malformations, or terminate the pregnancy altogether (Jancárková, & Gregor, 2000). The placenta is known as an effective barrier from any detrimental pathogen that can potentially hurt the fetus. The timing of exposure of any teratogen is critical to the impact of prenatal development (Bethesda (MD), 2006). The most vulnerable time of the fetus for severe damage is during early pregnancy when all the major organ and central nervous system (CNS) are developing. Miscarriages have an important role in keeping a pregnancy from evolving when there is something serious going on with the developing fetus/embryo. Miscarriages are more common than we think and are the most familiar type of pregnancy loss (Bethesda (MD), 2006).
Why should any woman be denied the choice to do what she wants with her own body? Women should have the control to decide what is best for their own body without the interference of the government’s laws. Making abortion legal can save and protect the lives of the pregnant woman and unborn fetus. The abortion procedure can help a woman’s life by saving her from financial stress, difficult responsibilities, risky health concerns, emotional disturbances and it also corresponds with the law . The procedure helps the unborn fetus by preventing an irregular health, emotional, and social development.
Sepsis is a “cunning, insidious and non-specific illness” (Raynor, 2012) but progression can be rapturous with a sudden catastrophic circulatory collapse and mortality up to 50%. (Angus et al., 2001) Over five million cases arise per year of maternal sepsis, resulting in an estimated 62,000 maternal deaths globally (WHO, 2008) During the 18th and 19th century, puerperal sepsis resulted in 50% of maternal deaths over Europe (Loudon, 2000). The World Health Organisation (WHO) defined puerperal sepsis as ‘infection of the genital tract occurring at any time between the rupture of membranes or labour, and the 42nd day postpartum, of which two or more of the following are present: pelvic pain, fever 38.5C or more, abnormal vaginal discharge, abnormal smell of discharge, and delay in the rate of reduction of size of uterus (less than 2 cm a day during the first 8 days)’ (WHO, 1992).
What if I told you that right now someone was choosing your fate whether you should live or die? And what if I told you that there was nothing you could say and nothing you could do to change their mind? Ladies and gentlemen there are thousands of children in that very position at this very moment right now someone is choosing life or death for child they've never even met before that someone is their mother and that choice is abortion. Abortion means ending a pregnancy so that it does not result in the birth of a child but it doesn’t matter how you say it, abortion is basically taking a life. Approximately more than 40 million abortions take place in the world every year since 1973. That is 40 million innocent beings being killed, taken away the chance to live a life full of their own of endless opportunities.