Week 4

         I want to first start my post off by saying hello to everyone. This has been a long week for me,

 and I can not wait till our holiday vacation starts. This week I looked over the many choices that we

 had on the list. I can say that I have been very blessed to have the childhood that I have. My parents

 have worked really hard so that me, and my siblings had everything that we needed as well as things

 that we did not need. We have also been very fortunate to be well supervised by our parents which

 kept us safe.

         My post is about my mother, and her childhood. My mother was not as fortunate to

 have a  childhood like she help provide us. My grandparents were poor farmers who had seven

 children. They lived in a small home, and practically lived off the land. My mother said that her

childhood made her sad lacking some of basic needs at times.

        I stayed home and researched stats in the US. More than 16.1 million children in America are poor, but they live in working families. Most of the impoverished families are Black and Latino. Children of impoverished homes lag behind their peers in many ways other than just their family income: They are less healthy because of malnutrition. They are often emotionally and intellectually damaged.  Poor children also are likely to become the poor parents of the future due to stats. It is really to see that one of the richest countries has citizens that are poor, and working.

                                                             SIDS

SIDS is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. I picked this topic because it is very dear to me because I lost a family member to this. It is was very hurtful to see my cousin go thru this situation. They went thru a constant battle of blaming each, and themselves. SIDS can happen to any child of any race. Also during this time you will get questioned by the authorities which is very difficult to deal with during a time of loss. It hurt me so much to see my cousin cry about a child that she dreamed about most of her life.

I looked at many different  resources it said that sids happens all over the world. The WHO- world health organization stores the information. It also notes that SIDS can be controlled by the way your infant is laid to rest.

Hello Everyone,

I do not have any children of my own so this is my friends story. She has two children. her first child was a natural vaginal delivery that lasted 4 hours start to finish. She went in at 930 am leaking fluid and her daughter Kiahanna was born at 135 8 lbs even 1 day before her due date. Her 5 year old's delivery was so much different she was induced on a Friday she was 38 weeks at the time she did not deliver till Sunday. Her son Karon was 9 lbs 2oz.

In a country in Angagen a small village in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. These women give birth in their mother's houses. They have water which will later be used to clean the mother and child off. They have a bamboo knife which they will use to cut their own cord. They also deliver their own babies.