woman smokes during pregnancy. The simple fact is when a pregnant woman lights up a cigarette‚ the unborn baby inside her lights up as well. Expectant mothers can have a miscarriage which is the loss of the baby during the early stages of pregnancy. Stillbirth can also arise which is the loss of the baby during the later stages of pregnancy usually after the 24thweek of gestation. Another side effect of smoking during pregnancy is pre-term delivery. According to Dr. Chris Cashmanwho is a doctor in Austin
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consumer being addicted to it cannot stop smoking. According to Surgeon General smoking cigarette causes Cancer‚ cardio-vascular‚ Lungs and Heart Diseases and emphysema. When expecting women smoke it complicates their pregnancy and it results in stillbirths. The new borns are most affected by smoking expecting women. Placing myself in the role of the Vice President of Marketing of Philip Morris USA in the 1960s‚ the general public was not aware of the harmful effects of the cigarettes; the company
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to smokers as to nonsmokers.  Premature Birth: Pregnant smokers are more likely to suffer bleeding‚ damage to the placenta‚ and other problems that trigger early birth.  Infant Death: Smoking is a direct cause of miscarriage‚ stillbirth‚ and sudden infant death syndrome (crib death). Some experts say infant death rates rise by 20-35 percent among smoking mothers.  Childhood Disease: Many researchers think that childhood leukemia and other cancers can be traced to tobacco
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calories while also taking vitamins is because if malnourished the unborn baby a higher chance of being malformed. Also‚ there are many issues that are at risk for the unborn baby and the mother if the mother is obese‚ this includes: preterm birth‚ stillbirth‚ and risk of being placed in neonatal intensive care unit; And for the mother‚ there are higher risk for her having diabetes‚ infections‚ high blood pressure‚ and breathing issues (p.57) Therefore‚ there are many benefits for a pregnant woman and
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inadequate performance of the natural duty of women. This is a subconscious and overlooked by many healthcare professionals. Most likely‚ women who have had an abortion experience the same emotional and spiritual loss as women who have miscarriages and stillbirths. Although it is miniscule for many women‚ some feel as though the have killed their baby and have a much more complicated depression. A murder is a serious offense that is not taken lightly. Murder is defined by
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disorders found in females‚ it is a rare chromosomal disorder that affects only females. This condition occurs in about 1 in 2‚500 female births worldwide‚ but is much more common among pregnancies that do not survive to term‚ like miscarriages and stillbirths. It occurs when one of the X chromosomes is partially or completely missing. Turner syndrome is highly variable and can differ increasingly from one person to another. Affected females can possibly develop a wide variety of symptoms‚ that can affect
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deaths per year per 1000 people. As of July 2009 the crude death rate for the whole world is about 8.37 per 1000 per year according to the current CIA World Factbook.[1] The perinatal mortality rate‚ the sum of neonatal deaths and fetal deaths (stillbirths) per 1000 births. The maternal mortality ratio‚ the number of maternal deaths per 100‚000 live births in same time period. The maternal mortality rate‚ the number of maternal deaths per 1‚000 women of reproductive age in the population
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Edwards Syndrome‚ also known as Trisomy 18‚ is a genetic syndrome of severe to profound mental retardation. It is caused by the presence of an extra chromosome 18 in some or all of the cells in the body. Babies with this condition typically do not survive but for a few months after birth. About sixty percent of newborns with this condition die within the first week‚ and eighty percent do not survive through the first month
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so a community could be developed around the school. Although both of these players are at fault‚ the collateral damage was the unknowing people moving into the Love Canal community. The citizens suffered from severe reproductive issues such as stillbirths and miscarriages‚ and giving birth to babies with birth defects both physical and developmental (Rosoff‚ and Pontell‚ 2014). The children were effected immensely because they are more susceptible to the chemicals that surround them‚ and because
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some numerical leverage‚ about 115 males are conceived for every 100 females. These numbers are preferentially carved down thereafter. Just 104 males are born for every 100 females because of the disproportionate rate of spontaneous abortions‚ stillbirths and miscarriages of male fetuses. More males than females die in infancy. During each subsequent year of life‚ mortality rates for males exceed those for females‚ so that by age 25 women are in the majority. Death rate comparisons for males and
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