Issues of Pregnancy

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This paper discusses that decisions made around pregnancy can affect the child's future in many ways. The paper outlines the problems surrounding smoking and Cesarean Sections. The author concludes that to ensure that both the mother and baby are healthy throughout the pregnancy, women need to get regular medical checkups, eat healthily, exercise and refrain from alcohol, drugs or smoking.

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"Babies also have risks if the mother undergoes a C-Section. First, if the due date is not accurately calculated, the baby could be delivered too early. Next, babies born by cesarean are more likely to develop breathing problems such as transient tachypnea (abnormally fast breathing during the first few days after birth). Third, babies born by cesarean sometimes have low Apgar scores. While the low score may be an effect of the anesthesia and C-Section, the baby may have been in distress to begin with or was not stimulated as he or she would have been by vaginal birth."

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