PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Harry Harlow, Cardiovascular Disease, Doula
30 Sep 2016
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Lo1: describe what traditional and modern childbirth look like. Lo2: summarize the stages of childbirth and common medical interventions. Lo3: describe a newborn"s appearance and characteristics and how health is assessed. Lo4: summarize the causes and consequences of low birth weight, postmaturity, and infant mortality. Lo5: describe the importance of bonding and how the birth of a newborn affects the marital relationship. Childbirth was a struggle with death both mother & baby, 10% dying at childbird. Childbirth began to be professionalized nurses, doctors. Growing use of maternity hospitals cleaner conditions: midwives provide care for: 4% midwife, 64% physician. Series of uterine, cervical, and other changes that begin about 2 weeks before delivery muscles get ready for contractions. Increase in pain over time etc. , closer to giving birth. Mother feels pain, baby feels squeezing, pinching feeling: definitive trigger for the advent of labour is unclear. Due to a specific protein produced by the body.
