PSYC 211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Aids, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Hemolytic Disease Of The Newborn
21 Nov 2013
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Chapter 3: prenatal development, birth, and the newborn baby. These children display some facial abnormalities and brain injury: alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder (arnd), in which some mental functioning is impaired, results from less pervasive alcohol exposure, mental impairment associated with all the fasd diagnoses is permanent. However, research shows that healthy women in their thirties have about the same rates of pregnancy complications as those in their twenties. Thereafter, complication rates increase: a teenager is physically capable of supporting a pregnancy. Higher rates of problems seen in infants born to teenagers are related to the lack of access to medical care, stress, poor nutrition, and health problems associated with poverty: the importance of prenatal health care. Chapter 3: lecture outline 4: early and sustained prenatal care helps ensure the health of the mother and fetus, in addition to financial hardship, situational barriers and personal barriers can keep mothers from seeking early prenatal care.
