Still Born Babies What is stillbirth? The medical definition of a still birth is when a baby is born without any signs of life at or after 20 weeks or weighing more than 500g before labour. Death in the fetus may have occurred during pregnancy‚ which is intrauterine death‚ labour‚ or birth. Most still births are intrauterine. As rare as stillbirth is‚ it occurs once in every 160 pregnancies. What causes a stillbirth? There are a number of known causes of stillbirth. Sometimes more than one of
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place over five days‚ beginning March 19‚ at the suburban Boston home of a married couple‚ Nadia and Ali. During this week‚ when they must cope with a one-hour power outage each evening‚ the grief and alienation that the two have suffered since the stillbirth of their child six months earlier builds to a climax. Plot Summary The story opens with Nadia‚ a thirty-three-year-old wife‚ arriving home at the end of a workday. Her husband‚ Ali‚ is cooking dinner. Nadia reads the newspaper to find a news that
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What was Andrew`s view of marriage? Why was he recentful and confused? Mr. Andrew had had a disappointing evening with Christine. He was continuously thinking about his friends who were being decieved by their wives or were living apart from their wives. This marriages were absolute failures .From all these instances he reasoned that marriage was an idyllic state. But with the image of Christine in front of him‚ he couldn’t think so. This conflict
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Stillbirth Causes Factors Linked to Late Pregnancy Loss * placental abruption Giving birth to a stillborn baby is every pregnant woman’s worst nightmare. When it does happen‚ it’s natural to want to understand why. Unfortunately‚ answers are rarely to be found -- more than 70% of stillbirths are never explained. Doctors theorize that the majority of stillbirths probably have something to do with the placenta not functioning correctly‚ and they have some other specific theories on what causes
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Shoba distracted herself by working and keeping with her routine while Shukumar lost motivation to finish school. The death of their son created detachment and reticence in their marriage in contrast to their abiding love beforehand. Before the stillbirth‚ the author portrays Shoba and Shukumar as a couple with a stable relationship. Lahiri specifies that Shoba’s readiness “was typical of her. She was the type to prepare for surprises‚ good and bad. … She kept the bonuses from her job in a
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UNRESOLVED GRIEF AND CONTINUING BONDS: AN ATTACHMENT PERSPECTIVE Much of the contemporary bereavement literature on the continuing bond to the deceased (CB) has emphasized its adaptiveness and given limited attention to when it may be maladaptive. The attachment literature on disorganized– unresolved attachment classification in relation to loss‚ or ‘‘unresolved loss‚’’ is informative in identifying CB expressions that are indicative of failure to integrate the death of a loved one. In this
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Shukumar’s Realization In the short story‚ A Temporary Matter‚ Jhumpa Lahiri tells a story about Shukumar and his wife Shoba going through the troubles after experiencing their stillbirth and explains how they get “closer” during a power outage. Shukumar is a strong man and really tries to support his wife in the distant relationship they develop. Shukumar is worthy of character analysis because of the way he changes throughout the story is very intricate by his experiences. He tries hard
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Case Report Marie Talty HISTORY N.C. a 26 year old woman para 4+3‚ gravida 8‚ at 26 weeks gestation with dichorionic dimniotic (DCDA) twins‚ presented to the Admissions department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology on 4th Septmember (Thursday) with a 24 hour history of crampy ‘tightening’ abdominal pain and decreased fetal movements. She had last noticed fetal movements on Wednesday morning. She said that the pain which was in the suprapubic region was more like a tightening and rated the severity
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Guttmacher Institute (2000) claim that in a man’s life time the stillbirth risk will increased up to 24% for each 100 millisieverts of radiation he exposed to‚ while a median lifetime exposure to radiation for men was actually 30.1 millisieverts which brings down the actual risk of stillbirth to 7.2%.Hence‚ base on the two study mentioned‚ the man who are affected by the nuclear plant disaster will have a 0.3% higher risk of stillbirth compared to unaffected man. This trend is proved to be true in
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doing drugs during pregnancy can be hazardous to the infant’s development. Alcohol during pregnancy I believe is one of the biggest hazards to a fetus. Drinking can put the mother and fetus at risk for several things. For example: miscarriages‚ stillbirths‚ premature infants‚ and low-birth-weight infants (Marotz & Allen 2013). When a woman is drinking on a regular basis it limits her dietary intake that both she and the fetus need to grow. Drinking during pregnancy can also have an effect on fetal
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