Essay On Hmong Birth Practices

1. Walt certainly demonstrates the term culture bound in the movie. He was an angry neighbor that if anyone’s ball went into his yard, it was long gone. To me it felt like Walt’s views were fenced in his own house and weren’t going to change. Surprisingly, by the end of the movie, he opened up to his Hmong neighbors next door.

88 percent of adoptive parents describe themselves as a “happy” couple, while 83 percent of non-adoptive parents describe themselves as a “happy” couple… 62 percent of children adopted privately are placed with the adoptive family when they are newborns or less than one year old”(American Adoptions). Kids or babies are put up for adoption if their original parents don’t want to take care of them anymore, so the parents have the option to put their child up for adoption. Which will allow the child to have a fun filled and exciting life with a family who would take care of them better than their original parents would. Similarly to The Giver by Lois Lowry it stated that in the community parents in waiting are hand given a baby with a name already.

MINOR ESSAY 1 a1695334 Hui Qiao Connell claims that ‘gender must be understood as a social structure. It is not an expression of biology, nor a fixed dichotomy in human life or character. It is a pattern of our social arrangements’ (2009: 10). My interpretation of her claim on the term “gender” comes to this, it all depends on the patterns of behaviour of the social group or society that person is associated with. It is not dependent on the biology of which the individual is birth to or having the contrast to the other character of either being a male or being a female.

Natural Birth Crowning During natural birth, crowning occurs in the active stage of labor when the baby’s head is just about to come out. But before this, a woman has to undergo various stages of labor, which begins with the onset of irregular uterine contractions. After a while, the contractions become more regular and intense. These are accompanied by the widening of the cervix and the descent of the baby’s head.

There are many different cultures in the world and how they approach medical needs may not all be the same. As a Vietnamese American I know both ways how American people and Vietnamese people approach for healthcare. Most American when we are sick we go to the doctors and they diagnose us with whatever and give us a prescription for medication or would refer us out to a specialist that would be able to help us. While Asians or better yet Vietnamese when we get sick we sometimes do not just go to the doctors we try herbal medications at home on our own and on what knowledge we know and from our friends and families. Also we believe in that acupuncture can help us from a lot of different things it can help with trembling, aches and such.

Both of my parents are Vietnamese but I was born here in Canada at Trillium Hospital, Mississauga, Ontario. Yes, I am proud to be a Canadian. Since my parents are Vietnamese, I can speak fluent English and Vietnamese. I can understand Vietnamese a lot better than I can speak it.

Being from a pure Vietnamese family, my parents like to take me and my little brother to Vietnam for vacationing and to visit my mother’s side every few years if the money allows it. The last trip being several years ago when I was in middle school. Unlike other households, my mom’s family was well developed. Their two story home was located in the moderately large city of Quy Nhon, housing my grandma, my mom’s brother and two sisters, and several of my cousins. Nobody there had an outstanding career with high salary; just lots of hours, hard work, and sweat.

Birthing options Most women prefer hospital delivery, and most health care practitioners recommend it because unexpected maternal and fetal complications may occur during labor and delivery or postpartum, even in women without risk factors. About 30% of hospital deliveries involve an obstetric complication (eg, laceration, postpartum hemorrhage). Other complications include abruptio placentae, abnormal fetal heart rate pattern, shoulder dystocia, need for emergency cesarean delivery, and neonatal depression or abnormality. Nonetheless, many women want a more homelike environment for delivery; in response, some hospitals provide birthing facilities with fewer formalities and rigid regulations but with emergency equipment and personnel available. Birthing centers may be freestanding or located in hospitals; care at either site is similar or identical.

About one in every 33 babies in the United States is born with a birth defect. A birth defect, according to Kids Health, part of the Nemours Foundation’s Center for Children’s Health Media, is defined as abnormalities of structure, function, or body metabolism that are present at birth. It’s said that birth defects are one of the leading causes of infant death in the first year of life. Birth defects can range from mild to severe. MedlinePlus, The National Institute of Health’s website says that babies with birth defects may need to have surgery or other medical treatments.

When it comes to the topic of cosmetic animal testing (Cosmetic animal testing- taking cosmetic products finished or unfinished and using them on animals in many different ways to test for different affects), most people will acknowledge that it is inhumane and unsafe for the sake of animals. When this agreement ends, it is on the question of why we need animals in research. Whereas some are convinced that it’s not harmful to any animal during the process, others maintain that it’s still the most known cosmetic testing today. The Humane Society acknowledges that testing on animals is a well known form of cosmetic testing.