Essays on Women's Health

Imagine for a moment you or a family member are struck with an unexpected pregnancy that you are neither financially nor mentally prepared for. Clinics such as Planned Parenthood become vital in situation such as these. Planned Parenthood has improve the lives of many women by providing a safety net for women’s health, being economically…

IVF or In-Vitro Fertilisation is a way for infertile couples to have a child. Around 6,000 babies are born every year to otherwise infertile couples as a result of IVF. Though the methods used in IVF treatment often cause a lot of controversy some say it just raises people’s hopes of having a child because…

A woman’s third stage of labour is an extremely precious and important milestone, as it marks her transition into motherhood (Fry, 2007). The significance of this stage has been recognised since the time of the ancient Greeks where Aristoteles (384-322 BC) suggested the use of weights around the umbilical cord or causing a woman to…

According to the data received by the Registrar General of India, in 2007 to 2009 the maternal mortality rate in India is 212 per 100,000 live births. The country needs to reduce the maternal mortality rate to less than109 deaths by 2015 to achieve the United Nations-mandated Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Every ten minutes there…

Feeling energetic. happy. wellbeing and equable is what goes on for three hebdomads out of every month. and so. all of a sudden. it happens. A hebdomad. right before your menses begins. the alterations occur. Your temper swings change from one twenty-four hours being equable to defeat. crossness to down right choler. and many times…

Human in vitro fertilization is selection of embryos for the transfer to the uterus. The eggs are surgically removed from a woman’s ovaries and placed in a carefully prepared broth called human tubal fluid. Six hours later, the husband’s sperm cells are added. The evidence of fertilization was detected approximately 16 hours later. Later on,…