I really like the website UNICEF. It has great articles and share a lot of things that people are doing all over the world. A lot of their article are touching and sad. That can be a good thing because it makes me want to get out and do something to help out. An article I read June 1 called Post-natal home visits improve newborn survival in Gaza, was about help young mother of infants improve their parenting skills after birth. Stated in the article, every year, an estimated 1,600 babies die in the first four weeks of life in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Most of these newborns deaths could be prevented if mothers and newborns’s health was systematically evaluated, and if young mothers received advice on how to best care for their children (Weibel, 2012). That sadden me because I am mother of three kids, a three year and a set of twins that are about to be one. Just imaging my babies in the first four weeks is something I probably will not be about to live. UNICEF is doing some amazing things by sending our nurses and midwives to help these mothers and they are visiting them three times within the first four weeks. They are promoting breastfeeding which I am really big on.
Another part of the article that caught my eye when Hafsteinsdottir stated, "A 38-year-old mother who had just given birth to her 14th child. She and her 15-year-old daughter were pregnant simultaneously, and consulted together at the clinic,” Hafsteinsdottir said. “The mother told me she wanted all her children to marry young, to move out of the family house and start having children immediately because this is what she did, and because it is a practical way of making room for the younger children in her crowded house (Weibel, 2012)." That raise a question, "Is there any type of birth control in Gaza? Who are educating them about sex or abstention? Where are the parents of the young teenage mother?
In different countries and ethics group I guessing that where the differences comes in values and moral.
References
Catherine Weibel. (2012) Post-natal home visits improve newborn survival in Gaza. Retrieved from http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/oPt_62538.html.
Hi Felicia,
ReplyDeleteI found it intersting that the article you chose from UnICE covered several of the same things the did that I chose. Maternal depressin has a large affect on a child's development. Home visitation is so important helping theses young Mothers to keep their babies alive, by giving nutrition education, mental health services and medical services to oth the mother and child.We view healthy child development as the foundation of economic prosperity, strong communities, and a just society,and our mission is to advance that vision by using science to enhance child well-being through innovations in policy and practice. (Global Children's initiative). They have variety of resources available to faculty and parents. They have working papers on a variety of topics they support; welfare reform, workforce development and child well-being, Young Children Development in an environment of relationships, excessive Stress disrupts the Developing brain, Maternal Depression can Undermine the Development of young children, along with many more!(Center of the Developing Child).
References http//developingchild.harvard.edu/global_initiative/