Wednesday, October 13, 2010

"Talking about stress"


You've had a lot of work or study? Do you have you felt tired or bored lately?, Probably your answer is "yes".

Stress is a physiological response in front of our dissatisfactions or frustration and this is very common in our society. Currently we are constantly subjected to pressures and inadvertently cause us stress. The most frequent causes of stress are: hard work, personal or family problems, fights, discussions and in general any physical or emotional factor that negatively affects people.

Stress causes many symptoms, some objective and others subjectives. Objectives symptoms are tachycardia, flushing, chills, dizziness, headaches, neck pain, back pain, etc. these can cause various diseases. Subjectives symptoms are anxiety, depression, aggression, sleep disturbances etc.

There are several ways to cure stress. For example you can practice some sports or you can go to the gym. Also you can go out with friends or you can travel with your family. But sometimes, stress can cause serious illness
and then you should visit a doctor or a psychologist, who will give you an effective treatment.

I've often felt stressed because
I must study hard to university. At that time I feel tired, boring, sad and very sleepy. But I think that we can control stress and for this reason I breathe heavily and say "I can". Then I try to share more with my friends, I laugh and I enjoy my family and my boyfriend and I'm happy again.

I feel that if you enjoy your life and if you live joyful and happy, you'll never feel stressed.

Well this is all,
see you soon
Bye!


Thursday, October 7, 2010

"Women have a right to a home birth"


Hi! This time I'll make a summary about an interesting article named "Women have a right to a home birth".

This article tells the story of a pregnant woman whose GP offers to have a home birth because this would be more beneficial for your baby.

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (Acog) shows preference for the process of giving birth over the goal of having a healthy baby. They say "ill-qualified midwives have led to a home birth neonatal death rate twice that of hospital births". For this reason Acog opposes home births because "Nobody likes a dead baby." However none of this will help pregnant women make informed choices about their births, where balancing the barrage of information against your own instinct at an extremely emotional time is challenging enough.

But Acog thinks that the home birth is more for the benefit of mothers than babies. In your opinion the home birth endangers the life of newborn, for this reason is nothing to do with some romantic notion of childbirth.

The pregnant woman thought that any romance will be entirely eroded by the time the big day arrives after multiple consultations with the NHS, due to complications that could have been her baby during home birth. But also she thought that she wanted that her baby born in place calm, quiet, familiar surroundings, without towards drugs and intervention in hospital.

Finally, she and her husband decided that they wanted a home birth, because they felt it was best for her baby. She said "So the more the NHS pushed us towards induction and a hospital birth, the more strongly we wanted to be at home and I felt that we would be most confident at home, with a skilled midwife".

On July, she had a birth in water at her home. The baby weighed 10 lb and was a baby big and beautiful. But his size meant that the mother was two horrific days in hospital after losing a litre of blood. However she said "give our son a beautiful, calm and drug-free birth, and hopefully that way of coming into the world will stay with him forever. I wouldn't change a thing".

Enjoy the article!
Goodbye!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/02/home-birth-women-caesareans