Baby Wishes and Worries: Our Baby Journal

Baby Wishes and Worries: Our Baby Journal

Introduction

The purpose of this pregnancy diary is o let the children know the stages of the delivery and what problems does the mother face throughout the pregnancy phases. The children will bet to read this diary and will come to know about child development in a comprehensive context.

Difference between the Boys

The major difference between the two boys is that one of them suffers from sepal defect (hole in the heart). When a baby is born with a hole in the wall (septum) that separates the right ventricle of the left ventricle, blood flows between the two ventricles rather than move normally to the rest of the body. This problem may cause an increase in heart size. He is best known as the "hole in the heart."

A hole is located between the atria (upper chambers) of the heart. It allows blood present in the left atrium (blood being already gone into the lungs) to return to the right atrium through the orifice. Normally, the blood should pass from the left atrium to left ventricle and is then pumped to the aorta and flow in the rest of the body. The severity of this problem depends on the size of the opening (Lewis, 2002).

Morning Sickness: Causes and Symptoms

Morning sickness during pregnancy refers to the feeling of vomiting and Nausea. Although this feeling usually occurs early in the morning, it can also continue for the whole day. Most often, this feeling appears during the 6th week of pregnancy, and it continues till the 13th week. If you were in good health before pregnancy, your baby will not be affected by morning sickness. Morning sickness is a discomfort in the stomach, nausea or vomiting that commonly occurs during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy (Cnattingius, 1998).

Over half of pregnant women experience morning sickness during the first quarter. They usually disappear in the second quarter, when the levels of pregnancy hormones in your body decrease. When morning sickness is severe, they are called hyperemesis gravidarum. If you suffer from severe morning sickness, you should go to hospital for given fluids intravenously (IV) and testing. We do not understand why some women have morning sickness, while others do not (Cnattingius, 1998). Women whose hormone levels of pregnancy are high tend to have Morning sickness, which also occur during other pregnancies. They are also ...