Posts Tagged ‘mother’

Some babies go down to the pelvis with the back of the head turned toward the spine of the mother. That is the opposite of what they usually do, with their back towards their mother’s womb.

This is called a POSTERIOR position and can lead to a series of events:

• Your bag is broken at the start of labor
• You have a lot of pain during and in between contractions
• The labor is slower
• You may need forceps or vacuum (a suction apparatus) to help your baby to be born.

The close proximity between the bones of the baby’s skull and the mother’s spine can be very uncomfortable. In this case, the best position for the labor is all four, with hands and feet. In this way, the baby is away from his mother’s relieving the back pain.

When he reaches the lower part of the pelvis, he needs to rotate 180 degrees to be in the best position for birth. This may take a long time, or he may decide that he will not turn! In this case, it will be born with the little face looking at his mother. Or he may need external help.

Childhood Eczema is increasing and is becoming a common problem to school age children. According to National Eczema society of UK it is a common disease effecting children up to one fifth of all children in UK. The harshness of this disease can vary in different forms. This disease shows its effect on the skin of child and so the symptoms of this disease can also be judged from the inspection of the child’s skin. In its initial forms the skin is hot, itchy and dry while in more severe forms the skin becomes raw, broken and which also results in bleeding which looks very unpleasant and cause uncomfortableness, sleeplessness to child but it is not infectious and it cannot spread to others just by touching. The Aromatherapy treatment can reduce the effect of Eczema in child. The treatment of Eczema can be done with Aromatherapy by the application of Essential Oils on the child through massage but before applying these essential oils it is advisable better not to take risk and should consult from professional Aromatherapist rather than self prescribe this is to avoid any harm because these essential oils can cause harm to children if applied incorrectly. This has been proved by one experiment. The experiment was done to find a better, efficient and effective solution to Eczema. The experiment was that a group consisting of eight children was taken to test the application of Aromatherapy. These children were divided into two groups randomly in which first group received treatment of Aromatherapy in which the essential oils choose to massage the children skin were from among 36 commonly used essential oils. These Essential oils were German Chamomile, Thyme, spike, lavender, benzoin and Litsea cubeba. While another group of children received massage without essential oils. This was done for the period of eight weeks in which massage was given by the therapist once a week while for remaining times mother gave massage to their children. The treatments were evaluated day by day. Children from both groups showed improvement but there were no differences in the improvement of both the groups.

There are three criteria to define how good a delivery is from the woman’s point of view. These tree criteria also represent three different levels or stages in the experience of birth:

- safety
- satisfaction
- empowerment.

A safe delivery means the presence of minimal risk for the mother and the baby. We cannot deceit ourselves about the total absence of risk. Any delivery involves some risk and it is with this small margin of adverse possibilities that we must learn to deal with.

A satisfying childbirth is the one in which a woman reaches a balanced emotional condition. Despite the fact that seeing her child for the first time is a deeply moving experience, she has to cope while giving birth with her own conflicting emotions (anxiety versus safety, desire versus fear, etc.) plus the medical and hospital stress, the lack of privacy, noises, bright lights and unknown people.

An empowering childbirth is the one that brings a profound transformation in the woman’s inner identity. It’s a rite of passage.

Unfortunately nowadays delivery is conducted in order to be more dangerous than it is, causing more risks than those associated with the inevitable fact of being alive. Therefore, the birth experience is rarely empowering for women.

As a beginner at age seven, learning to play the piano was a difficult and exasperating feat because it involved too much time, concentration, and tenacity.  If my mother had not been a professional musician and teacher, I would have abandoned the piano after the first year.

The hardest feat to master was sitting down to practice because the other kids were out playing and I couldn’t join them.  This frustrated me and hindered my concentration.  I could see them playing jump rope or hopscotch, and I wanted to play too.

Another hard feat to overcome was the actual technical skills involved.  Learning rhythm did not come easy for me.  To compound the problem, learning to coordinate both hands when each hand had a different rhythm pattern became so exasperating that it was not uncommon to observe me at the piano with gritted teeth.  Of course, as a child, it is instinctive to try to weasel out of doing something right and to do it wrong because it is easier.  I couldn’t get away with that either, because my mother, as a professional musician, could be at the other end of the house and just know when I did something wrong.  It didn’t seem possible she could know but she did.  It is hard to know how many times she used to yell at me from the opposite end of the house, “wrong fingering Gail,” or “wrong rhythm. Gail.”   How could she know??  I never figured it out until I was MUCH older.

Last but DEFINITELY not least, were those confounded yearly recitals.  Of course beginners played first and progressively the order of players would continue to the most advanced playing last.   My first year playing naturally made me the first to play because I was the beginner.  After I had finished, I begrudgingly sat through 39 other performers!  My mother had never had so many students as she did that year.  That was the one day of my life that time stood still!  That day I became a world-class fidgeter.

Years came and went and I did master the piano, thanks to my mother’s perseverance and occasionally gritted teeth.  I had developed above-average concentration ability, discipline, and a sense of pride and accomplishment that carried over into my other school work and my adult life.  Unfortunately, as I look back on my adult life, I erred in judgment and persevered at times when I should not have.  But, at least through my school days, my perseverance paid off and my musical talents excelled and by the time I was in seventh grade, I was first chair clarinetist too.   Taking everything into consideration, despite the gritted teeth and temper tantrums, learning to play the piano was worth it after all.

Education is one of the most beautiful and important forms of love. However, it requires courage. Parents often take a kind of “shortcut” giving to their children what is easy and expensive, avoiding what is really necessary.

Education starts with feelings, gestures, and authenticity. Setting rules with speeches is not educating, but taming a child. Mothers and fathers should be like the light that illuminates a dark room.

A child feels lost when he doesn’t know where to go has no limits and definitions. Physical security is as important as the psychological one. Feeling safe is also feeling understood, accepted and embraced, not only protected from material hazards. Security has also to do with being helped to understand the world and understand oneself.

During a lifetime, parents will be the North Star for their children. Becoming aware of what this means reflecting on the quality of the relationship we have with them.

What are the values that guide our lives?
What kind of people we are?

We live in times of transition. Maternity and paternity are no longer pre-established models. Being a mother and a father is a human condition that is entering a new phase of creation and discovery. But, still children need something solid and reliable.

Myself being at the age of 20, I know very well that Moms can be your best friend or your worst fear. Personally, I have developed an amazing relationship with my mother. I can not only talk to her about anything, but she listens to me. However, I would be lying if I told you we always had that relationship. Especially in high school, when I first started to crave that beautiful freedom, my mother and I would often argue. Thinking back on it now, I realize that friction occurred, when my desire for freedom was combated by her fear of losing me. A tip for all those trying to find peace with their mother: empathize. Although it may be hard for an adolescent to put themselves in a mother’s mindset, the better the understanding, the more peace. Since I became more understanding of my mother, the frequency of our arguments has diminished. Not only did this allow us to be happier, but it improved our abilities to communicate greatly. Since the times we communicate aren’t forced by way of arguments, we are able to communicate positively and coexist. For this reason, I believe the keys to a positive relationship with your mother are empathy, and understanding.

A mom is popularly a term used in reference to a mother. A mother is commonly a biological and female parent. It has different connotations according to the context (social, cultural and religious). Nowadays, with the advances in reproductive technologies, the function of biological motherhood is shared between the one genetic (who provides the ovum) and the one gestational (who carries the pregnancy). The term is often extended to the woman who fulfills the main social role in raising the child; it is in reality defined with precision by the term ”adoptive mother”. Mothers have historically recognized as the one who acknowledge their children in conversation since young and they are more likely than fathers to encourage assimilative and communion -enhancing patterns in their children. Socially, it has been recognized that the way mothers speak to their children favors the understanding of the message and is someway better suited to support them in their efforts to do things. This is however challenging to define the mother as the one fulfilling the primary role in raising children because the social role and experience of motherhood is greatly depending upon location and culture. The fathers have been sometimes given greater prominence and social acceptance in the role of child care in certain areas.

My MOTHER is the most important and irreplaceable person in my life. I don’t know what I would do if my MOTHER wasn’t around. I’m not a mamma’s boy but my MOTHER is my best friend, my financial partner, and the best adviser anyone could have. She would tell me the truth even if it hurts. She has my best interest at all costs. She could be the most annoying person in the world but she does it for the good reasons. I don’t know I could ever love any other person more than the way I love my MOTHER. She is the only person who can love me unconditionally. There is nothing in this world I wouldn’t do for my MOTHER.
Thank you God for allowing my MOTHER to be around. There would be a void in my life that no one or nothing could have fill, there is nothing I can say to accurately describe what my mother means to me or there no scale to measure her importance.  M-otivator, O-verseer, T-eacher, H-ealer, E-nvelope of love R-escuer.

A mother is someone to shelter and guide

To love us, whatever we do,

With a warm understanding and infinite patience
And wonderful gentleness, too.
How often a mother means swift reassurance
In soothing our small, childish fears,
How tenderly mothers watch over their children
And treasure them all through the years!
The heart of a mother is full of forgiveness
For any mistake, big or small,
And generous always in helping her family,
Whose needs she has placed above all.
A mother can utter a word of compassion
And make all our cares fall away,
She can brighten a home with the sound of her laughter
And make life delightful and gay.
A mother possesses incredible wisdom
And wonderful insight and skill -
In each human heart is that one special corner
Which only a mother can fill!

A mother should be selfless, one who will sacrifice everything for her child. She did that for me, she even put me before her own self, and she gave up most of her dreams and goals so I can have a chance to live mine. She gave birth to her first child at the age of eighteen, She gave up her chance to have a college education to ensure that my up bring will ever be as difficult or as challenging as her own.  My mother never knew her mother; she was raised by her aunt, who never loved her like a mother should or even like an aunt should. That’s why I think my mother is extra special because she is so good at being a mother and she never had one. I’ve received so much love from my mother even when I did not deserve it, she never took time off being a mother she was always there when I needed her or not. We weren’t rich my mother worked two jobs just to make ends meet, she gave me things she never had, I ask her why and she said it’s not what you receive that counts but what you give.