bcom/215 Persuasive Essay At least 11% of women smoke during pregnancy. Many of these women smoke without knowing the significant negative effects smoking has on their babies before‚ during‚ and after the pregnancy. When a woman smokes during pregnancy‚ she exposes her baby to dangerous chemicals such as tar‚ carbon monoxide‚ nicotine‚ and other poisonous chemicals that travels through the bloodstream and goes directly to the baby. Nicotine restricts the oxygen through the
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All Early Years settings have a requirement to follow frameworks to support the learning and development of children’s Literacy and Mathematical skills. Practitioners and professionals working with young children will follow The Early Years Foundation Stage which is a statutory requirement. The Early Years Matters expresses that “The environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning”. http://www.earlyyearsmatters.co.uk/our-services/school-and-nursery-improvement-partner/enabling-environments/
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Pregnancy can be very difficult even for an average healthy woman. There are many risk factors that are added when being overweight and pregnant‚ making the process much more complex and stressful on the mother and the baby. Weight issues may carry very harmful effects not only for the mother but can impact the development of the fetus as well. This paper will discuss the risks that are related to the health of the mother‚ fetus‚ recovery and postpartum. Individual health risks for just being
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Exposure to teratogens can have an impact on the developing fetus‚ the later child‚ and the adolescent. Some Teratogens are environmental influences that harm fetal development (Berk‚2008). They come from a variety of external influences that include mother’s nutrition‚ medications‚ Stress of the mother‚ pollutants‚ injury‚ disease or illness. These environmental influences impact fetal growth. Teratogens are not the only cause of birth defects. Genetics also play a role in fetal development and
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utilization. In contrary to Koren’s findings‚ case studies revealed significant high risk of major malformation (cleft palate or lip) with the use of BZD. Several studies have also likened the effects of BZD to fetal alcohol syndrome. The “benzodiazepine syndrome” is basically characterized by facial dysmorphism‚ hypotonia‚ and delayed motor development‚ polycystic kidney‚ submucous clef hard palate‚ microcephaly‚ varying degrees of mental retardation‚ convulsions and neonate abstinence syndrome. Some other
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is the inability of the pituitary to produce adequate hormone levels other than growth hormone. Physical defects of the face and skull may also be associated with abnormalities of the pituitary gland. A small percentage of infants with cleft lip and cleft palate may have decreased growth hormone levels. No ideal treatment has been developed yet for pituitary dwarfism. Replacement therapy with growth hormone is indicated for children who have
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Defects Like most expectant parents‚ you probably alternate between fantasies about a healthy baby and worries that your baby will have a health problem. Or perhaps you’ve been told throughprenatal screening that your baby might be born with a birth defect. Many parents assume that all birth defects are severe or even fatal‚ but the fact is that many are treatable‚ often immediately after birth — and sometimes even before the baby is born. It’s especially important to know the risk factors
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Development of the Human Zygote November 16‚ 1995 Hundreds of thousands of times a year a single-celled zygote‚ smaller than a grain of sand‚ transforms into an amazingly complex network of cells‚ a newborn infant. Through cellular differentiation and growth‚ this process is completed with precision time and time again‚ but very rarely a mistake in the "blueprint" of growth and development does occur. Following is a description of how the pathways of this intricate web are followed and the
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Chapter 1 Phonetics: A “Sound” Science * Phonetics as a field of study * Historical phonetics- involves the study of sound changes in words * There is a constant mutation over time in the pronunciation of words in all languages. * Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries‚ there was a marked evolution in the pronunciation of English long vowels; this change in vowel pronunciation is known as the “Great Vowel Shift” * Physiological phonetics- involves
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thoroughly examined. Subsequently‚ any surgical adjustments to the columella may have extensive functional and aesthetic impact on the nose‚ so a detailed evaluation is essential. A columellar retraction is mainly evaluated in comparison to the upper lip and nostrils region. If the retraction is caused by a belligerent cosmetic surgery‚ surgeons study the pre-procedural images of the patient as a visual reference for the further treatment. Retracted Columella – Surgical
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